The PlayStation 5 is one of the best games consoles you can get if you’re a fan of modern gaming, but it’s a little iffy when it comes to playing retro titles.
The PS5 is already capable of playing thousands of games released across this generation and last generation, but it gets complicated if you try to go further back.
Certain PS1 and PS2 games are available on the PlayStation Store or via PlayStation Plus, but there are thousands of games that simply aren’t available on the system.
And when it comes to playing PS3 games, it’s even more complicated. Since the PS3 had some rather dodgy internal hardware, largely due to its IBM Cell Processor which made the console pretty difficult to develop for, PS3 backwards compatibility has also been pretty difficult to…