Sony Is Assembling a Game Preservation Team
Leading up to the company’s shuttering of PlayStation Now.
When Sony launches its revamped PlayStation Plus subscription pass, it plans on scrubbing PlayStation Now. The service gives PS4and PS5 owners access to hundreds of games dating back to the PS3. Come June those with Now plans will be switched over to PlayStation Plus Premium subscriptions.
Sony doesn’t appear to be abandoning its older titles entirely, though. It appears that the company is building out a game preservation team to ensure that games for older console generations are still accessible.
Sony has hired at least one senior engineer, Garrett Fredley, to join its new game preservation team, Video Games Chronicle first reported.
“Today is my first day as a Senior Build Engineer for PlayStation, working as one of their initial hires for the newly created Preservation team!” Fredley wrote in a LinkedIn post.
“Game Preservation was my first career passion. It was my first foray into the world of Software Engineering / Dev Ops, and into a world that so many are unaware of. I was just a novice back then, contributing any way I could regardless of my inexperience. Now, I’m back to it, no longer the novice I once was.”
Fredley, who previously worked on preserving old FIFA titles, went on to thank Mike Bishop, Global QA Manager at PlayStation Studios, for bringing him on board.
As of right now, it’s unclear what projects the new game preservation will be working on or if it’ll serve to fill the gap of the soon-to-be-defunct PlayStation Now.
In other gaming news, Elden Ring has received a nostalgic Game Boy demake.
