According to a brand new job itemizing, PlayStation is at the moment trying to rent a software program growth engineer to create “new emulators”.
As reported by PSU, the LinkedIn job itemizing was noticed on Resetera and signifies the particular person employed will be a part of the Tools and Technology workforce on the studio. The particular person can even “support the newly relaunched ‘Classics’ for PS4 and PS5.”
Most notably, the job itemizing additionally says, “Classic games run via emulation of legacy PlayStation platforms. As a Classics engineer, you would work closely with a group of other engineers, producers, and QA teams to fix bugs, add new features, and develop new emulators.”
Additionally, the itemizing supplies some additional place necessities. Some of those embody professional data of the C/C++ software program and expertise growing cross-platform software program for consoles and PCs.
As a plus, the studio would love somebody who has had “hands on experience with AA or AAA game development for PlayStation Consoles.”
Although previously Sony hasn’t indicated that it’s trying to emulate traditional titles from platforms such because the PS3, the point out within the job itemizing does present some hope to followers that they might in the future play older titles on current-gen consoles.
As talked about by PSU, the PS3 is the one era of video games obtainable via the brand new tiered and lately launched PlayStation Plus subscription service. These titles can’t be downloaded and are solely obtainable to stream.
Last month it was reported that PlayStation Plus on PC appeared not to be working correctly, making some PS1 and PS2 titles not work. Other titles reminiscent of Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Death Stranding, in addition to Jak and Daxter and Tekken 2 have been additionally impacted additionally.
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