Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 (eurogamer.net)

An anonymous reader writes: The Digital Foundry blog reports that Sony has added functionality to the PlayStation 4 that allows it to act as an emulator for some PlayStation 2 games. Surprisingly, the company did not mention that this functionality is live; a new Star Wars game bundle just happened to include three titles that were released on the PS2. From the article: "How can we tell? First of all, a system prompt appears telling you that select and start buttons are mapped to the left and right sides of the Dual Shock 4's trackpad. Third party game developers cannot access the system OS in this manner. Secondly, just like the PS2 emulator on PlayStation 3, there's an emulation system in place for handling PS2 memory cards. Thirdly, the classic PlayStation 2 logo appears in all of its poorly upscaled glory when you boot each title." Sony has confirmed the games are being emulated, but declined to provide any further details.

Comments

Because of the endless whiners

[Anonymous Coward]

If Sony made this official there would be and endless list of wingers and whiners here on Slashdot complaining about how game X didn't work properly, and then go ballistic when the support is removed.

Re:Because of the endless whiners

[DrXym]

What I want to know is when are they adding "Other OS" back?

What I want to know is how many people whining about Other OS being removed ever used it or realized the limitations to it in the first place. Or understood the implications for their console (saturation levels of piracy and a death spiral into shovelware) if it had allowed to remain in place.

Short version

[Rik Sweeney]

Sony: We're not going to add emulation to the PS4, there's just no interest in it.
Microsoft: We've added emulation to the XBoxOne!
Sony: Shit. Guys, get coding...

Competition = good.