thats what they claim and want you to believe… nothing more. its about time you wake up and stop people putting words in your mouth.

Thank you for the excellent answer.
You are perhaps quite correct. When I think about trying to get some emulated stuff to work on PC it does take a bit of CPU grunt (so I can only imagine how tricky PS3 would be).

Speak of the devil, murmurings of PS2 emulation:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-hands-on-with-ps4-playstation2-emulation?page=comments

I think PS3 backwards compatibility is impossible for certain reasons.

Benchmarks show that the PS3 Cell Processor CPU is actually stronger or just as strong as the Xbox One and PS4 CPU. Each PS3 game used the Cell Processor SPEs in a specific way. Some games used only a small amount of the SPEs, while other games used more or less. Even if they found a way to make it work on PS4, they would have to forfit so much time and resources on a game by game basis to the point that it wouldn’t be worth it to anyone including PS4 owners.

I think Sony realized this and decided to suck it up, which is why they made PS Now. The $20 subscription isn’t a bad deal for people who never played most of those games or traded in their PS3 games. If you got some money back from trading in your PS3 and PS3 games, and you ever feel the need to go back and play some PS3 games you didn’t play before or games you want to play again, then renting them from PS Now could come in handy especially once the PS3 is discontinued. PS Now isn’t bad value depending on your circumstances.

For example, if a young person buys a PS4 but never owned a PS3, and it’s his or her’s first console, PS Now would come in handy.

PS One and PS2 backwards compatibility is arguably more valuable than PS3 backwards compatibility because PS One and PS2 are much older systems and many people still own their PS3s, like me, which makes this PS3/Xbox 360 backwards compatibility hype rather silly and overated to them.

Eh the similarity ends there,CELL was a different beast.It actually did graphical tasks that Cpus don’t normally do.I really wish Sony would had just used what MS used and just beefed up the Gpu/memory this wouldn’t be an issue.

No it cost alot of money to do reverse engineering which you don’t understand business. I am not a fan of psnow but being honest only a small percentage care about backwards compatibility. Once you beat a game it has zero replay value unless it is a first person shooter. It didn’t help xbox one in sales whatsoever. People complain about remasters. It isn’t bs again you don’t understand technology and business. They have plenty of games to play already. If they allow ps1 and ps2 disc to play hey that is an added bonus.

I imagine BC for PS3 on PS4 is tricky but not impossible. They probably just have more important things (financially) to focus on. And the PS3 “exotic” hardware thing is just a convenient excuse (personally I’m not too fussed about PS3 BC I’m done with last gen).