The underlying architecture of the PS3 would be a major concern. No reasons were given specifically other than PS3 games are not compatible with PlayStation 4. This was especially confusing to its customers who are wanting to bring their existing games forward, yet were unable to. While still able to support PS1 and some PS2 games via emulation. The Sony PlayStation 2 would contain PS1 hardware on its motherboard for near-perfect backward compatibility.Įarly models of the PlayStation 3 would do the same with PlayStation 2 hardware only, later sacrificing the hardware in favor of software emulation but this would all change with the PlayStation 4. Historically Sony has done a good job preserving its library and bringing it forward. In recent times Sony has hesitated to support backward compatibility with a razor-sharp focus firmly in the future but this wasn’t always true in fact.
