{"id":124829,"date":"2022-04-28T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124829"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:00:26","slug":"playstation-sets-up-game-preservation-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/124829-playstation-sets-up-game-preservation-team","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation sets up &#8220;game preservation&#8221; team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new employee, PlayStation has set up a game preservation team.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Fredley revealed in a tweet that he had joined this new team<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today is my first day as a Senior Build Engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PlayStation<\/a>, working as one of their initial hires for the newly created Preservation team!<\/p>\n<p>Game Preservation was my first career passion, so I&#8217;m ecstatic that I get to go back to those roots \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garrett Fredley (@SomeCronzaGuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SomeCronzaGuy\/status\/1518616882357571586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fredley is a senior build engineer with extensive experience in game preservation, according to his recent LinkedIn <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/garrett-fredley_today-is-my-first-day-as-a-senior-build-engineer-activity-6924387563638063104--Vid?utm_source=linkedin_share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;src=aff-lilpar&amp;veh=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.10078_plc.Skimbit%20Ltd._pcrid.gamesradar.com_learning&amp;trk=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.10078_plc.Skimbit%20Ltd._pcrid.gamesradar.com_learning&amp;clickid=XJ8X%3AfT3lxyIWYuVlaQBj2h3UkGS0Y1uG00Uz80&amp;mcid=6851962469594763264&amp;irgwc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGame Preservation was my first career passion. It was my first foray into the world of Software Engineering \/ Dev Ops, and into a world that so many are unaware of. I was just a novice back then, contributing any way I could regardless of my inexperience. Now, I&#8217;m back to it, no longer the novice I once was.\u201d Fredley said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>Given his experience, Fredley was a logical choice for PlayStation; however, it has not officially been announced what the new team will be focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>However, given the recent announcement of a new PS Plus service that will include access to hundreds of older games, the team might be tasked with optimising these titles for modern PlayStation consoles.<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation has not offered any official comment since Fradley\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/124810-five-of-the-best-gaming-monitors-for-under-r5000\">Five of the best gaming monitors for under R5,000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation has set up a new game preservation team according to its latest hire, Garrett Fredley. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":124785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[26077,1966,5476,623,15399],"class_list":["post-124829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-game-preservation","tag-games","tag-ps1","tag-ps2","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}