What a time to be alive. Gamers are starting to play Steam games locally on jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles, thanks to several projects that aim to bring PC gaming to the Sony-loving masses. One such project is Playden for PS5, which was made publicly available earlier this month.
The program functions as a Steam launcher, but also creates a private Windows environment via prospero-win, a port of Wine for PlayStation 5 (via Videocardz). The software has support for up to Direct3D 11 through DXVK and Direct3D 12 games through VKD3D-Proton, and includes a separate runtime kit for the graphics drivers, along with specific app shells for the games themselves.
"It downloads a game, prepares it, and hands it to a separate PS5 app made for that game. That app starts Wine with the game's settings," says the readme on the project's GitHub page. "Because each game is its own app, it has its own tile on the PS5 Home screen, and it is isolated: its files, settings and crashes stay insi...
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