r/pcmasterrace • u/3nnb • 8d ago

News/Article The PS5 system itself is running on pc

Recently, we have seen massive developments in PS5 emulators (such as shadPS4 and Kyty), and how rapidly they have progressed in a short period.

​Now, developers have successfully booted the actual PS5 system software on PC.

​If this momentum continues in the future, it will eventually allow players to run PS5 exclusives directly on PC, marking the end of the era of console exclusivity.

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u/ninoski404 8d ago

Lmao I'm sure they are terrified of 0,5% population that is tech-savvy to find and run emulators, while 90% of those will but the proper game when it launches anyway

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u/beziko 8d ago

I think it's even less than 0,5%. Not only great build you need to have but also you have to know what emulation is at all. I was suprised how many people i played games with didn't even know what is "emulator".

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u/bs000 8d ago

me looking on in horror as my friend rents a movie from YouTube for $20 instead of just going to FMHY

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u/Sweetwill62 Ryzen 7 7700X Saphire Nitro 7900XTX 32GB 8d ago

Which one was $20?

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u/Neweggdotcom 8d ago

Send your friend to 🏴‍☠️

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u/roger_belmont 8d ago

Tears of the Kingdom leaked online and was pirated over a million times before it officially released. That's ~4.5% of lifetime sales pirated before launch day. Switch is much easier to emulate so it's not a perfect comparison, but far more than .5% or less

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u/Neemzeh 8d ago

The most ironic part that nobody is talking about is that this shit is barely running using a fucking RTX 5090 lmao. Nobody is running this shit on average hardware for a while

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u/ChropMK 8d ago

In the west emulators aren’t really that much of a concern.

But there’s tons of countries where it is, primarily third world countries since to them, it’s incredibly stupid to waste what is essentially 1/4th of your monthly salary on a video game when you can just play it for free. Piracy in these countries are rampant and encouraged.

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u/ric2b Specs/Imgur Here 8d ago

What makes you think this will require a lot of tech-savvyness to run by the time GTA 6 launches?

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u/ninoski404 8d ago

The fact that emulators are still extremely niche, so clearly there is a reason. Also, if it's not niche then rockstar will hunt it and going on slightly sketchy sites is also something a tiny portion of people will do.

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u/ric2b Specs/Imgur Here 8d ago

Emulators tend to have shit performance unless you use them for old games.

If this gives you native performance it might be a very different story, especially for a game that a lot of people want to play.

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u/BravestCashew 8d ago

PC players are definitely more tech savvy than the average console gamer by default.

at least, I’ve been laptop gaming for 11 years and now PC gaming and I can download skyrim/cyberpunk/borderlands mods, and have done stuff like create randomized saves for my iphone pokemon game, etc

Basic tech stuff from a tech person’s perspective, but about equal to this assuming the modders eventually release the emulator in an easy-to-download/run state)

Yeah the console players will mostly be legit, but the PC players, who aren’t getting this game for possibly 9 months to a full year after the console release? They’ll be starving lol, and some will buy a console, but if an easy to download, trustworthy, workable PS5 emulator releases? Floodgates opened

Like when I was in high school, everybody (not just techy people but totally random people) was downloading gba4ios on their phones. People aren’t totally unfamiliar with emulators, pc players especially

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u/Jeff1N 8d ago

PC players are definitely more tech savvy than the average console gamer

True, I'm a software engineer and after working for 8 years 8h a day on a PC I dread using a PC at home, and actually prefer playing on consoles to not have to lose a couple of hours making a game work

14yo me would easily set up multiple N64 emulators with different plugins to get certain games to work (it took me a long time to get Paper Mario and Conker's Bad Fur Day working), or get PS2 Kingdom Hearts games working on a PC not exactly fit for PS2 emulation

...On the other hand, how many people actually have PCs powerful enough for emulating a current gen title, specially with the memory crisis?

With PS5 and Xbox being essentially modern PCs with custom firmware I imagine it would require fewer translation layers, but still you usually need a hardware reasonably more powerful than the original to emulate something

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u/TPO_Ava Ryzen 7700 / RX 9070 XT 8d ago

Similar situation for me, I already work in front of a PC, when I have the option I don't game on my PC, I only do it for games where it's more comfortable, like League, CS2, Fortnite, etc. but for everything else I've got a steamdeck, switch 2 and ps5 that I'd be more than happy to use instead.

They're all also setup in different places, my consoles are in the living room to be used by me, my partner or guests, while my desktop is in the office for my own use only.

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u/_dekoorc 9800X3D | 5070 Ti | 64GB DDR5-6000 CL30 8d ago

I understand that GTA6 is going to be a huge release, but I have not heard a single person talk about it outside of Reddit. I'm sure I will as the release gets closer, but floodgates will not be opened.

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u/BravestCashew 8d ago

I mean this is why anecdotal evidence doesn’t work. They’ve already made $3 billion+ off of preorders alone (and that was in the first, what, week of preorders?), just because you don’t hear people talking about it doesn’t mean it isn’t the literal biggest singular game release potentially of all time, in terms of how many people will be buying and playing it

just to be clear i didnt preorder it but you should ask the average person who games casually what they’re looking forward to in gaming. There’s a reason why 2k and fifa make so much money, and that’s cause the casual gamers buy the crap out of them every year - the same ones who will be playing GTA6 cause it’s a casual’s favorite game series

disclaimer: not using casual as an insult, but a descriptor of people who play games but not a lot of games, rather just a few - the people who only buy the new cods, fifas, 2ks, assassins creed, and GTA games (etc). Very specific purchases that they buy 100% of the time because their friends also buy them 100% of the time (AC actually probably falling off in the casual scene though tbh)

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u/Crumpled_Papers 8d ago

3 BILLION off preorders? That's like if a third of humanity had a preorder, including many people without electricity. But hey if that number is real that's a great stat for how big a deal this game is. I'm genuinely shocked.

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u/Leffernan 8d ago

That's 37.5 million copies of the $80 version.

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u/branson3 8d ago

Wasn't it reported that the majority of preorders have been the $100 version as well?

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u/Leffernan 8d ago

Correct! The Rockstar CEO said so himself.

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u/Chance_Commercial892 8d ago

Cuz its not like u can talk about it randomly like people just talk mostly online even I didn't heard it.... But the day it releases and after or few days before you will hear about it everywhere.... Its a huge game even big athletes , celebs are talking about it never saw this

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u/ninoski404 8d ago

If emulator gets popular, it'll be hunted down by rockstar and pushed into sketchy sites, once again outside of normal people reach

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 8d ago

I set up no$gb for multiple people in highschool, i tried monetising the service but people just asked the people I did it for how I did it and suddenly there were hundreds of people playing pokemon at home for free.

People vastly overestimate how hard it is and it sounds like people are vastly underestimating how much effort people are willing to put in to play something everyone else is playing that they otherwise couldn't 

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u/BravestCashew 8d ago

Yeah there’s literally a youtube tutorial right now on how to jailbreak your PS5 by changing your system IP address to a specific one, then press like two buttons and boom, you now have a jailbroken PS5. For the first time ever, people can buy a new ps5 from a store, start it up fully updated to the newest version, and immediately jailbreak their console without a USB or buying an already cracked console online.

This is another new development made within the last 1-2 weeks and it’s actually kinda scary for console gamers cause it doesn’t just enable stuff like steam (yes, people/ai are/is close to running steam on ps5 apparently), but also makes cheating a lot easier

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u/Jeff1N 8d ago

I remember seeing a jailbroken overclocked Switch OLED running a Switch emulator on a Linux ARM64 distro and even if it was visibly worse than just playing the game normally I found it funny that it actually worked

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u/Bubbywubwub12 Ryzen 5 9600X | 5060 TI 16GB | 32 GB DDR5 8d ago

PC users are way more tech-savvy tbh. It's still a step in the right direction.

Why defend these billion dollar corps?

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u/ninoski404 8d ago

I'm not defending them, I just don't like wishful thinking and making stupid statements to feel better. It was the same with leaks "omg rockstar will regret not releasing a trailer sooner so much!" and a month after extended look the leaks are buried and forgotten while a quadrillion videos about extended look are being pumped out just like they were going to be

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u/SadSecurity 8d ago

"Tech-savvy" lmao

You mean downloading a launcher, downloading a game and then play it through launcher?

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u/sortalikeachinchilla 8d ago

Not on fucking PC.

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u/ninoski404 7d ago

You mean it doesn't launch on PC? It will in 1-2 years with a bit of a remaster and everyone will buy it regardless of whether they had a bootlegged copy for a year or not.

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u/Wookieewomble 2d ago

Most emulators now a days dosnt take much to learn. Some are even plug and play mostly. Will only get better with time too.