75% of PS3 Games Now Playable on PC via RPCS3 Emulator
The open-source RPCS3 emulator team announced that 75.33% of all PlayStation 3 titles (2,681 out of 3,559) are now compatible with their software, allowing games to run on Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD across x86 and arm64 processors. This milestone comes as Sony plans to shut down the PS3 and PS Vita PlayStation Store by 2027 and stop physical disc production by 2028. The team continues working toward full library preservation, with 816 titles playable but having glitches, 60 reaching menus only, and two stuck on black screens. The article notes that emulation is legally protected for playing owned games, despite past DMCA challenges from publishers like Atlus. RPCS3 has shown performance improvements, achieving up to 1500 FPS on Minecraft's title screen and 5-7% FPS boosts in recent builds.
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