The PS3, PS4, and PS5 Digital Stores are Connected!

[@Danjoebanjoe]

hopefully they integrate ps3 digital copies into ps5 in the future

[@bunkercollector]

This is what I'm hoping for. But, I believe Sony doesn't want to make it known that PSOne games are crossbuy so that we won't come to expect PS3/more digital games from PS3 to be crossbuy in the future..

[@Pointman11111]

They probably will, wee can still put Ps3 games on our store wishlist

[@jeffreybokhari6472]

Wrong They Don’t Want You To Be A Current Subscriber To A PS Subscription It’s Too Expensive And Some People Can’t Afford It And I’m One Of Them And I Hope I Can Purchase My PS3 Games For Free On PS5 With Crossplay And I Believe We Will Eventually

[@jordanrayo2425]

Ps3 is considered a legacy console to Sony... They are just waiting for more people to buy ps5s as they know that poor countries have people still using ps3s till this day... This also a reason why many still have a ps4 in other countries cause it cost $700 -1000$ for import taxes. ​@jeffreybokhari6472

[@DavidBerger-g2h]

The PS3 truly a legend imagine running PS2 Games,Creating own Themes and install another Operating System like Linux if you wanted to. That combined with a Cheaper Price for that Power is incredible there is a reason why they made a Supercomputer out of PS3s haha.

[@bunkercollector]

For real, I've heard that the OG model PS3s can play Super audio CDs as well. Whereas a CD player made for those can still cost upwards of $500!

[@jordanrayo2425]

​@@bunkercollector yup, the ps3 can play every type of audio format.

[@MoonSarito]

I think it's really cool that games that someone bought on PSP (and PS1/PS2 games too) years ago can be downloaded for free on the PS5 if they're using the same PSN, this is probably the closest thing to backwards compatibility with old consoles that we're going to get. Although it would still be pretty cool if we could just insert the PS1 or PS2 disc and download the emulated PS5 version of it. (like PS4 games that have a free upgrade to the PS5 version) Still.. I recently bought a PS3 and I've been buying some PS1 games on it, it's good to know that if I ever get a PS4 or PS5 I'll be able to keep a lot of those games. (and who knows, maybe even get all the trophies and the platinum trophy since the PS4/PS5 version of most of these games have trophies support )

[@bunkercollector]

Well said!

[@AristotelesSantosSouza]

An interesting fact about the PS2 Siren, If you bought the game on the PS3 Playstation Store or if you bought the version that came out for PS4 in 2016, both will give you the new PS5 version for free with the new PS2 emulator, I think that's pretty cool.

[@beckybecky125]

You ever buy songs for Rock Band? They go back to PS3 too

[@kevinmc9089]

It also works with PS Vita. For example, if you buy Metal Slug 3, you can play it on PS3, PS Vita & PS4 (and PS5 with backwardscompatibility), thanks to the cross-buy.

[@bunkercollector]

Do you have to buy on any specific system first to get them all?

[@kevinmc9089]

@bunkercollector nope. It doesn't matter the system where you buy it. If you made the purchase in any system, it will be available for the others without issue.

[@SilverTester]

​@@kevinmc9089thats how its supposed to work, that should be the standard.

[@bunkercollector]

@@kevinmc9089 Cool, I hear the anthology has input lag? Have you tried it versus just #3?

[@kevinmc9089]

@@bunkercollector I haven't tried it yet, but I remember it has some kind of fps issues on PSP, maybe it's the same on PS4? 🤔 Metal Slug 3 & Metal Slug XX works very well in other hands.

[@SilverTester]

I was skeptical about this video, found out this man is spitting facts. The reason shit dont work is due to corporate greed and nothing else.

[@BUPMY1]

Pretty much.

[@slapshotjack9806]

No it’s because what this kid is saying is false it’s just another video being made to try to brainwash people into believing their 20 year old ps3 is gonna stay supported until kingdom come

[@SeanUCF]

Sony is the worst gaming company in the modern age surpassing EA and even Activision. They will stop at nothing to squeeze their customers for all they're worth.

[@slapshotjack9806]

@ yet they sell millions of consoles per year… I’m sorry but I’m not gonna believe some kid who probably just graduated grade school with 500 subscribers over this

[@SeanUCF]

You cleared up a mystery for me. For the longest time I wanted to play RE directors cut on PS5 but it said I had to get Sony's price gouging subscription service and I said fuck that. So fast forward to a couple weeks ago, all of a sudden it was allowing me to download and play it for free on my PS5 without the subscription service. I was so confused, but now it makes sense because I bought that game on PS3 years ago. It actually kinda pisses me off now, that for so long they were gate keeping that game behind their sub service when it was cross buy and it should have been available to play all along.

[@marscaleb]

So glad to get confirmation on this! I noticed that I was able to "buy" Herc's Adventure on the PS5 "for free" and I couldn't figure out why this happened. I suspected it was because I bought it for the PS3, but just didn't know for sure. Now I know I have a lot of games I could reclaim!

[@ThatGenericPyro]

Great to know for those of us still using our PS3s Them wanting to shut down that store will always be a mistake

[@leatherhidegaming]

Actually both the PS4 and PS5 are technically incapable of reading PS1 discs because they use drives that can't read CDs.

[@bunkercollector]

Good to know, Lets hope they get PS3 discs reading someday at least!

[@KevinFought]

​@@bunkercollectorthem having PS3 backwards compatible would be like them remastering bloodborne, it's almost impossible

[@bigjake360t]

No, they can. The drives are just not "allowed" to. It has more to do with commerce than any technical limitation.

[@leatherhidegaming]

@@bigjake360t are you sure? I thought I remembered a Digital Foundry video where they were talking about how Sony's drives since the PS4 lack the lasers for CD playback and how Xbox drives still have them.

[@Pointman11111]

​@@leatherhidegaming No, he actually said how the Ps4 can read CDs or John Linneman, the DF guy was in a conversation about it on twitter Modders made the Ps4 read CDs My guess is that Ps5 can do it but they hardlocked it or modders just weren't able to do it

[@marscaleb]

Just gonna throw this out there: I would pay good money to buy a new PS5 that was backward compatible with all Playstation games. They could just build a machine with the hardware of both a PS3 and PS5, and throw in a PS2 emulator and it would work.

[@jurjcluners8490]

It wouldn't work. They tried lol

[@robertharper3114]

​@@jurjcluners8490They did not.

[@checkoffgames]

PS3 emulation is still here and there. "Playable" and perfect are not the same. PS2 emulation is the same, with odd visual errors, stutters, and a few crashes here and there. For time being, official emulation is the most practical option if you don't already have hardware and don't want to or really shouldn't spend a large amount of money on the hardware.

[@irulethewasteland]

i bought a ton of PSX1 games for my PSP back when, hope to gain access to more than Dino Crisis someday.

[@AgentSmith2K]

I have thousands spent on PS3 digital store and I can’t play any of them on my PS4/5. They want me to pay again. This is the sole reason I don’t buy digital anymore

[@RinTheGamerGirl]

日本からメリークリスマス！🇯🇵🎄🎅

[@WarhawkFAQs]

Thankfullly I still have a good chunk of PS1 physical games.

[@bunkercollector]

What's your #1

[@TheFrenchy82]

oh... Clever ! Thanks for the information.

[@fleetwoodriver]

It’s a bit messy though, because I bought the jak and daxter trilogy on ps3 years ago and it’s just come to ps4/ps5, however I can’t get it for free on those. They rereleased them on seperate ps4 versions a few years back (which I don’t own) so I don’t know if that’s what causes the issue

[@bunkercollector]

Yeah, that is the issue. Jak and Daxter trilogy is considered a single game and a PS3 game at that. So maybe if one day PS3 games become downloadable for the PS5 you'll then have access!

[@_douglasfranco]

Here on Brazil the most expensive option does not offer game streaming on ps3, making it super dumb for the price

[@valerian8063]

don't forget PS VITA! I do not own a PS3, yet I got Resident Evil directors cut for free on PS5 because I already bought it on the Vita. Also some other games...

[@bunkercollector]

Yeah most PSOne games on the PS3 store can be downloaded to the Vita for on the go gaming. You can also transfer your saves between the two if you want to go from big screen to little screen. Check out my video on the best way to transfer your saves between the two kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGquZamse7Z1g5o

[@BigBossBaker]

This works for PSP games. I bought Tekken 6 and Soul Caliber a long time ago on the PsVita and when they came out on ps5 both of those games were free for me

[@marscaleb]

Jeez, I just turned on my PS3 and starting looking for some more cross-play titles, and GD is it depressing to look at the PS3 store now. There are so many titles that have just vanished! Why have they delisted so many titles?

[@angelrosas3724]

Ever since Resident evil DC and Dino crisis have been made available to purchase, i've noticed that my old account has been able to get them for free since it already got them on the PS3.

[@bunkercollector]

It's weird they can just flip a switch like that

[@JessePowellZ71]

Really hope so I have games i have bought on my old PS3 like a decade ago like the Original Resident Evil 2 and 3 and Sonic Adventure 2 and Mortal Kombat Kollection would love to add to my PS5 collection of over 200 digit games

[@1nv1cta33]

There has been many rumors about them actually cooking someting with ps3 emulation but they have never been confirmed and thing is that it's literally not just as easy as "just bring ps3 games on ps5 bro". There's multiple reasons why they wouldn't tell you about this. First of all we are still in in the remaster phase of gaming, in fact some games get delisted from the ps3 store like tales of xillia, which is a ps3 exclusive, and with the recent leak it's safe to expect a remaster somewhere in 2025/2026 after the upcoming Graces F. The same for mgs4, many expect it to be in the vol. 2 master collection. Or what about the recent RDR remaster. The ps3 store is very strange anyway, so one has to wonder if they didn't simply forgot to remove some of those games. I would say it's mainly due to licensing issues and the safest bet right now is to purchase digital copies of SIE-owned IPs and especially very expensive PS3 only games like puppeteer, demon's souls and PSN collection vol1 is a must have I think, but judging from the cross-buy games Capcom often let's you do this too with Resident Evil for instance. As for the reasons why you simply can't stick your blu ray inside a ps4 or ps5 it's really just money at the end of the day, I remember some Sony exec outright said that they just wanted to sell you the games again to make a profit from it, and to be fair if they were to include hardware backwards compatibility with ps1-ps3 in ps6 (ps4-ps5 is guaranteed since it will be the same AMD architecture) imagine the cost of the console. The proccess of bringing back games is also not easy, as I mentioned earlier re-licensing, QA time and people, trophy support and whatever. Just look at RPCS3, it's always amazing what people are able to accomplish but let's face it, after all the years it has been out there at least 1/3 of the games are not completely playable. They are kinda still adding new ps3 games to the streaming catalog so they are not ditching ps3 streaming yet (but eventually they will have to decommission old ps3 servers and once they do they will need to decide what to do next and emulation is definitely an option), local ps3 playback on ps6 would be an amazing feature and worth upgrading for. I mean it's not like nobody is using a ps3 today, I'm on of the 1mil+ active PSN users (according to 2023 internal documents from insomniac hack) on ps3, but let's be fair here it's more of a goodwill and customer-friendly feature, it's possible that bringing the entire ps3 catalog in the new ps classic (which is slowly but expanding) catalog might be a waste of resources, like what's the point of going through all that hassle just to have a total lack of interest from the users.

[@CarbyGuuGuu]

Honestly hope this means any PSone or PS2 Classic that was previously purchased on PS3 gets carried over when a PS5 update is announced. Would be cool if Sony got the approval from Activision to release the original PS1 versions of Crash and Spyro.

[@SOSO_CREPITUS]

I want my simpsons hit&run AND my mortal kombat kollection on my PS5 NOW

[@HavingFunTimes]

Thanks, now I can play Thomas was alone on my ps portal

[@cheffdonty]

I got my OG resident evil copy transferred onto ps5 because i owned the ps3 version... Which is strange to me because the version on ps5 is the director's cut and the ps3 version was the dualshock edition with the crappy music.

[@bunkercollector]

Yeah, this is a weird oddity. Supposedly in PAL regions the directors cut is what you received from the PS3 store while NTSC gamers received the dualshock version

[@knuclear200x]

By the time I do get a classic game, it's either emulatable, remastered or homebrew. I reserve my money for current gen

[@LazyPixcell]

a number of games i bought on ps3, some of them i am able to download now on ps5 but others are not. like “dragons lair” it got on ps3 its not available on ps5.

[@clintbrew]

Same I got Abe odyssey collection on PS3 and I can download them for freeI got the Jax trilogy on ps3 but cannot download it for free on ps5 for some reason unless it not the right collection

[@rgmusic4769]

true that there cheaper on the PS3 then the PS5 I still have my PS3 along with a handful of games on it that I got over the years incase they would ever be removed glad its still going strong I got most of the things I want and same with DLC stuff for Tekken tag 2 :)

[@Tangible_D]

I've purchased songs for rocksmith 2014 on PS4 but only around 10% of the songs show up for download on the ps3 psn.

[@AlanYeager23]

NEED og resident evil 2 and 3 on my ps5 ngl

[@bunkercollector]

Same, looking to get another playthrough in on those someday soon

[@mikaelamonsterland]

does this work in the opposite direction in any way? i just picked up a ps vita recently and had gotten dragon's crown on ps4 but if i was able to have that available there or on my ps3 it would be nice rather than having to buy the game again

[@bunkercollector]

Really, you just gotta get the Vita out and try. I bought a PSOne game on PS5 and did not get the PS3 and Vita versions. But this does not apply to all games. Dragon's Crown isn't on the reddit list but Give it a try and let me know

[@KingDoyle1996]

Get a eithernet cable if you don't have one buy a longer one wifi is trash.

[@bunkercollector]

Ethernet is king

[@TheSkyrocketYT]

They absolutely could port PS3 games onto PS5 or emulate. Or just add a PS3 cell processor into the console.

[@YouMissedAgainTimes32024]

PC emulates PS3 with RPCS3, no excuses why Sony can't do it on PS5

[@bivv93]

Better keep base-game on the physical copy whereas all DLCs should be kept digital. the digital games and backups are always at risk of corruption or malfunctioning. Storage devices can malfunction anytime. So physical is always a better option. Moreover, it is even relatively more environment-friendly, energy-efficient way and requires much lesser server load and cost And best it to get pirated games as well after some time lolz.

[@itsAwesomeAngel]

So now I'm curious, say i bought the sly cooper trilogy on psvita, streamed it in ps5 thru psnow or whatever it was called to play sly before it became available on the store, any trophies i earned from streaming or vita would they be intergreted into one listing like show the ps systems on the bottom or would i have multiple sections of sly with its trophies because that's the one thing i do not want if you know what i mean haha.

[@bunkercollector]

Good question. I know the PS2 versions of sly that became available through the premium subscription on PS5 are actual PS2 games that are being emulated. So I would think that that’s a different trophy section per game versus the Sly collection from the Vita and PS3

[@lasthopelost9090]

I know there linked since I can’t get some games cause I bought them on the PS3

[@MegaManNeo]

Watched another video recently where someone runs current RPCS3 on a bad SKU of the base PS5 AMD sold for a much lower price. The Playstation 5 totally could handle PS3 emulation but they want you to pay again, so yea... just stick to the Playstation 3 you have and make sure it stays alive.

[@YouMissedAgainTimes32024]

PS3 > PS5

[@KRSRK]

I dont wanna give hope , But PS6 ... Would be a dream if it could (IT CAN) run legacy games via physical discs ,but Sony and their PSPlus membership? , pure greed ...

[@YunG0blivi0us]

Yeah absolutely not! We wants backwards compatibility on the PS5!! Or not at all 😤😤

[@Moli05]

what does ps plus have to do with this. you can still buy the game individually without any sub

[@KRSRK]

@@Moli05 I've got old PS3, PS2 and PS1 games that can't be played on the newer console, hardware BC 💡 Goodluck finding those consoles as time goes on, One console to play 5 generations remains the dream

[@BUPMY1]

​@@Moli05 Sony rather you subscribe to PS+ Premium for your backwards compatible needs.

[@DavidBerger-g2h]

Probably its cheaper than running them separately.

[@SpartanGoku]

Streaming PS3 games on ps5 is absolutely terrible. Even with awesome internet, lag quite a bit. Unless there something I’m not doing correctly. It’s way better to just play on the PS3 console instead.

[@bunkercollector]

Ya, That's why I've steered clear for the time being. Have to get back with that ethernet hookup here someday

[@SpartanGoku]

@ I wish I could get Ethernet but StarLink from Elon Musk is the only good internet I can get in my area. It’s pretty fast too

[@jakesmith5278]

All these games are emulated...with Sony's emulator. Get a PS4/pro, hack it for about $20 and download all these games for free or convert them yourself. PS2 and Sega Saturn games as well, again, using Sony's emulator.

[@mromega8591]

I had the toy story 2 game on the ps3 and it appeared free for me on ps5 months ago, i was able to get it. did this happen to anyone else?

[@VenomSnakeMGS]

Sony will honor the license for certain titles if you purchased the game before on PS3 or Vita in the past. They can't do this for every game however. Sometimes it's up to the publisher. In this case with Toy Story 2 Disney approved it.

[@sal_gof]

emulation for ps3 and higher sucks anyways

[@Moli05]

the game plays well

[@jeremyhall2727]

Mmm too bad it wasn't for ps4. I bought so many ps3 games. Then it just broke. I bought a ps4 & i can't used any of my games on it.

[@DoomyRei]

No its not

[@bivv93]

Buying digitally than physically is actually not good as we do not own any of the digital games.

[@kidrobot.]

stop being so emotionally attached

[@bivv93]

@kidrobot. People are literally selling themselves to corporations. Please Honor yourSelf practically by making choices that reflect so.

[@Moli05]

stop with that bs. nothing's gonna happen, no one is coming for your games dude. relax I can still download and update 15 year old games on my ps3

[@bivv93]

@Moli05 hormones freaked out lolz. Better keep base-game on the physical copy whereas all DLCs should be kept digital. the digital games and backups are always a PIA for all. Storage devices can malfunction anytime. So physical is always a better option. Moreover, it is even relatively more environment-friendly, energy efficient way and requires much lesser server load and cost

[@ZA1US]

Just jailbreak your PS3 lol

[@jeremyhall2727]

I stop buying ps consoles. They always break on me. I bought 3 psones, 4 ps2s, 3 ps3s, & 1 ps4. After the ps4 broke...i didn't buy anymore. I never had good luck with sony consoles. Only one x box broke & zero Nintendo consoles compared to my Playstation ones 😭 I'm just going to emulated sony games

[@dmo848]

Cleaning helps

[@jeremyhall2727]

​@dmo848 I did 😢 my other consoles never had this problem

[@HillBilly_King1881]

Yeah I could emulate these games or I could get em Cheap at a flea market

[@Sykxezn]

to the emulator comments, guess what, YOU ARE emulating them, the ps3 emulates ps1 games

[@bigjake360t]

Close. Games are not emulated. Hardware is.

[@bunkercollector]

@@bigjake360t Solid comments. This is a good topic for another video