Good

Better than just being toxic, there are couple of developers working on a PS5 emulator right now on PC. And they make quick progress very fast, as it does not need to emulate the entire PC architecture. This accelerated when Sony announced no longer printing and selling discs in the future.

Now we just need to see if people will actually stick with it. Sony did this banking on everyone (including even YOU) will happily buy GTA 6 and be content with digital only.

Deamons souls on PC. Finally.

In a perfect world, it doesn't stop being toxic until Sony either goes out of the gaming business or pulls head from collective ass.

Companies now make wild decisions and then just wait for people's memory to run out. But the policies don't change, so therefore the response must be consistent.

And of course, at the end of the day, social media is just an arm of marketing. It's great that Sony's has been made unpleasant, but corporations "live" and think only via money.

Don't give Sony any more of it.

People supporting Sony aren't gamers, they're renters.

Joke's on them. I already didn't buy a PS5 this whole time because it was so obvious where this was going when they offered the driverless version of the platform.

Rcps3?

They mean the version they ruined

Presumably that wouldn’t even need to be an emulator, just a translation layer like Proton.

I mean, if you could break encryption, wouldn’t you just decompile it?

In my head I would rather compare it to a Virtual Machine with CPU+GPU passthrough plus optimized Filesystem calls (which gives almost native speed). But I don't know actually. Proton is very thin layer and focuses only on a few key parts, while the rest of your operating system does all the other things. A Virtual Machine is a more complete and isolated solution, that is less tied to the entire host you run it on (and therefore easier to port presumably). Whatever, I don't know enough if we should compare it more to Proton or a VM.

I think shadPS4 operates similar, but can't find a quote on their site or source page.

"Nobody likes renting. Nobody likes landlords right? Well Sony wants to be your fucking landlord"

-Scott the Woz

Sony’s definitely aware that people are hostile to their decisions, but they have other customers that quite honestly don’t care.

This, to me, is one of those moments that proves out why competition is important. You can’t always force every company to make pro-consumer decisions, especially if you’re just one type of consumer, but you can definitely abandon their products.