{"id":61672,"date":"2014-01-29T11:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T09:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61672"},"modified":"2014-01-29T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T09:13:44","slug":"ps1-and-ps2-emulation-in-the-works-for-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/61672-ps1-and-ps2-emulation-in-the-works-for-ps4","title":{"rendered":"PS1 and PS2 emulation in the works for PS4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eurogamer&#8217;s Digital Foundry is reporting that <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2014-ps1-ps2-games-heading-to-ps4\">PSOne and PS2 backwards compatibility<\/a> is in the works for the PlayStation 4, according to their well-placed source.<\/p>\n<p>This is aside from the PlayStation Now game streaming service, which will reportedly only feature PS3 games for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>The PSOne and PS2 games will run locally under emulation. Basically, you will be buying the classic games via download.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Foundry reports that Sony may be implementing an HD resolution rendering system, rather than a simple image upscaling which can result in a blurry picture.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any PSOne and PS2 classics you would play emulated on a PS4? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61669-google-turns-chrome-into-lego-builder.html\">Google turns Chrome into Lego builder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61666-r5-million-damage-in-biggest-eve-online-conflict-in-history.html\">R5 million damage in biggest EVE Online conflict in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61664-elder-scrolls-online-xbox-live-gold-subscription-required.html\">Elder Scrolls Online: Xbox Live Gold subscription required<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61659-classic-dota-hero-returns-in-latest-dota-2-update.html\">Classic Dota hero returns in latest Dota 2 update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Foundry reports that Sony is working on classic PlayStation game emulation for its PS4 console<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":60294,"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":[11972,21,1853,71],"class_list":["post-61672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-emulation","tag-headline","tag-playstation4","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61672","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}