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Sony wants its next-gen PlayStation 5 to play thousands of PS4 games when it releases this holiday. The PS5's custom SoC, OS, and software architecture environment was built from the ground up with ...

A Reddit user discovered a rare start-up disc for the PS2 network adaptor at a dump, sparking nostalgia. The PS2 network adaptor allowed online play with games like Star Wars Battlefront and Madden ...

Sony's ultra-powerful next-gen PlayStation 5 could one-up Xbox backward compatibility and support five generations worth of PlayStation games. PS4's lack of backward compatibility was always a sore ...

The original device known as the Super NES CD-ROM System, or Nintendo PlayStation, was a partnership between Nintendo and Sony back in 1988 to develop a CD-ROM based system add-on for the SNES.

Can you play PS1, PS2, PS3 games on PS5 is a common question that many people are asking. With PS5 backwards compatibility confirmed to allow gamers to play PS4 games on PS5, it makes sense that ...

Wednesday’s deluge of PlayStation 5 news mostly revolved around brand-new content launching alongside the console on November 12. Lost in the fray was a key detail that confirmed an August leak about ...

A security software engineer has figured out a way for people to play unofficial games using their PlayStation 2 consoles, and all that is really needed to do so is a game burned onto a DVD disc.

How many of you have come home from an exhausting day of work or class, popped a game into your PlayStation 2, and sat down on the couch only to see "Disk Read Error" on your TV? For many, it's an all ...

The PlayStation 2 remains the highest-selling video game console of all time more than two decades after it released in 2000. But despite its overwhelming popularity at the time, and its lasting ...