Implicit Conversions, who are credited with several ports that can be found on PlayStation Network, have announced their plans to…

Implicit Conversions isn’t that well known per se, so we’ll tell you that it’s the team that has ported several PS1, PS2 and PSP titles to more modern platforms (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5), so these are the titles that are available through PlayStation Plus Premium subscriptions. This is the team behind the porting work, and now the company has highlighted something interesting in its development schedule.

Implicit Conversions’ plans include the possibility of researching and prototyping a PlayStation 3 emulator package for Syrup. Since these are plans, it’s quite possible that we’ll have to wait several years (if not more) for a release. However, this is in the Dreaming About section of their website, so it may not be actively in development.

So PlayStation 3 emulation is something that may happen one day. You can play PS3 titles on the more modern PlayStation, but only from the cloud, so you can’t run them locally, although we have seen patents from Sony related to local emulation on the PlayStation 3. Sony should finally make up for this, as the PlayStation 5 Pro has been released, and it’s a more powerful console that could be used to run the previous two generations of titles from the cloud rather than the cloud.

The PlayStation 3 PC emulation is at least in a better position, but it requires a more powerful PC because the console’s Cell processor is very complex and emulating it is not an easy task. The PlayStation 4 emulation is developing at a much faster pace, and we have reported on the very rapid development of the ShadPS4 emulator over the last few months. This should at least make it possible to play Bloodborne, FromSoftware’s PS4 exclusive, on the PC.

But when will Sony make local PS3 emulation a reality?

Source: Reddit