PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 hits new milestone with 75% of its library now fully ‘Playable’

Over its many years of development, we’ve seen the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 breeze past plenty of major milestones: including allowing for the injection of new post-effects such as AMD’s FSR while continually reducing the number of unsupported titles. Furthering these efforts, the team have revealed that 75% of the entire PS3 library is now fully playable through the emulator.

In going to the project’s official site, users can find a full compatibility list of titles, showcasing which games are supported by RPCS3 and whether to expect any issues.

Split into 5 tiers of support, each game is placed into one of the following categories:

1. Nothing (Games that don't initialize properly, not loading at all and/or crashing the emulator)
2. Loadable (Games that display a black screen with a framerate on the window's title)
3. Intro (Games that display image but don't make it past the menus)
4. Ingame (Games that either can't be finished, have serious glitches or have insufficient performance)
5. Playable (Games that can be completed with playable performance and no game breaking glitches)

As of now, across the PlayStation 3’s more-than 3500 games, 75.33% are considered to be playable, with 22.93% achieving ‘ingame’ status. At this point, very few titles suffer from major issues, with just 1.71% still stuck in the ‘intro’ stage and 0.03% only being loadable. Like we reported back in 2021, a total of 0% of the PS3 library remains in the ‘nothing’ stage.

Speaking of 2021, back then, the compatibility list looked quite a bit different, with around 63% of games being ‘playable’, 30% reaching ‘ingame’ and nearly 6% stuck at the intro.

With just how much momentum RPCS3 has seen over the years, there will hopefully come a time in which 100% of the PS3’s library will be fully playable. We will have to wait and see how long it takes.

KitGuru says: How often do you use emulators for gaming? Are you impressed with RPCS3’s progress over the years? Let us know down below.

Become a Patron!