[Playstation Lifestyle] Sony Admits Backwards Compatibility Was Welcomed Before PS4 Dropped It

Well let’s hope the PS6 is gonna (still) have a disc drive and be able to play games from every Playstation generation, otherwise it might really motivate me to jump to Linux gaming where you can just emulate almost everything.

I don't think he meant "no one would play this". I think he meant "not enough people would play this [to justify the ridiculously difficult undertaking that trying to emulate the cell processor on those junk ass jaguar cores would be, especially when the games people really care about are the ones that would never work well because they leaned hard into the architecture]"