Skip to main content

Sony patents Cell-based Emotion Engine emulation

News by Patrick Garratt Founder & Publisher (Former)

Published on June 30, 2009

Sony's patented an Emotion Engine emulation system for PS3's Cell processor.

Meaning? That PS3 could play PS2 games without any hardware changes, in theory.

Get details and diagrams from SiliconEra.

What? PS3 price cut, Firmware 3.0, PS3Slim and PS2 emulation all before the end of the year? What's that?

Thanks Robo_1 and Blerk.

Read this next

45nm Cell to reduce power consumption by 40%
Don't worry, Helldivers 2 folks, Arrowhead's working on the Democracy Space Station's team-killing tendencies, and it's already introduced a temporary tweak to help
After GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition update ditches some mentions of the studio, Grove Street Games boss says it's "a dick move" to yank devs from credits via updates