It’s amazing that Sony’s console can’t do what a ten year old computer can do, and it makes us wonder how PlayStation 5 will cope with newer games.

A new PlayStation 5 emulator has been made capable of running several PS2 games. Early indications are not encouraging, and that doesn’t bode well for what Sony is supposedly planning (we’ve long expected PlayStation 3 games to run locally rather than in the cloud), but we should also remember that this is a generation of consoles three generations before the current one, and it doesn’t take that much power for a modern console to run them.

The editors at Digital Foundry looked at both Tomb Raider: Legend and Sly Cooper and found that the emulation of both games is very poor. Miss Croft gives a blurry image, and it’s not the low resolution (which is an improvement over the PS2 original), but the processing of the image that leads to the bad results. The available visual modes are also poor, and the poor CRT filters don’t bring back what you saw on the old TVs. At least the games have NTSC (60 Hz) and PAL (50 Hz) modes, and the performance is slightly better.

But it’s amazing how Sony can’t get their PS2 game emulation right. Even with minimal visual tuning to the game (slightly higher resolution, nothing else), we can actually do that on an old PC. Even the PS2 performance of the emulator we saw on the PlayStation 4 was flawed, and now we can have a better solution to just pop the DVD (or image file from our disk) into a PC and play on it. Especially if it’s a game that hasn’t been released in any form since (like Enthusia, Konami’s rival Gran Turismo 4 racing game).

Sony needs to come to its senses, because this is a very bad performance.

Source: WCCFTech