{"id":1093395,"date":"2026-07-16T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1093395\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:19:29","slug":"with-the-ps3s-store-shutting-down-emulator-claims-75-compatibility-with-consoles-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1093395\/","title":{"rendered":"With the PS3&#8217;s Store Shutting Down, Emulator Claims 75% Compatibility with Console&#8217;s Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"With the PS3&#039;s Store Shutting Down, Emulator Claims 75% Compatibility with Console&#039;s Library 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/5182ab5d156b1\/with-the-ps3s-store-shutting-down-emulator-claims-75percent-compatibility-with-consoles-library-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/with-the-ps3s-store-shutting-down-emulator-claims-75percent-compatibility-with-consoles-library-1.90.jpeg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"With the PS3's Store Shutting Down, Emulator Claims 75% Compatibility with Console's Library 1\"\/><\/a> Image: Damien McFerran \/ Push Square<\/p>\n<p>Sony will shut down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/07\/ps3-ps-vita-digital-stores-to-close-starting-later-this-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the PS3\u2019s digital storefront in July 2027<\/a>, after over 20 years of support.<\/p>\n<p>While existing purchases will remain downloadable for the \u201cforeseeable future\u201d, that means some titles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/guides\/50plus-digital-ps3-ps-vita-games-to-buy-before-its-too-late\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will no longer be available to purchase anywhere<\/a> \u2013 or will become prohibitively expensive in physical format.<\/p>\n<p>But emulator <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rpcs3\/status\/2077068126529708407\" rel=\"nofollow\">RPCS3<\/a> continues to achieve impressive things, confirming compatibility with 75% of the console\u2019s library on PC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>75% of all PlayStation 3 games are now PLAYABLE on PC!<\/p>\n<p>RPCS3 continues to be improved with new features, fixes, and optimisations, bringing it ever closer to preserving the entire PS3 library. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7HtrgPBwGc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7HtrgPBwGc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RPCS3 (@rpcs3) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rpcs3\/status\/2077068126529708407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are titles that are considered fully playable, with no game breaking glitches.<\/p>\n<p>A further 22% function with issues, while a little under 2% won\u2019t boot past the main menu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRPCS3 continues to be improved with new features, fixes, and optimisations, bringing it ever closer to preserving the entire PS3 library,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rpcs3\/status\/2077068126529708407\" rel=\"nofollow\">the emulator\u2019s developers say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the perspective of game preservation, this is important work \u2013 especially as manufacturer Sony seems to have little to no interest in providing backwards compatibility with the PS3 itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sammy Barker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Damien McFerran \/ Push Square Sony will shut down the PS3\u2019s digital storefront in July 2027, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1093396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[46777,32102,341,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1093395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ps-store","tag-ps3","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116931276935028121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}