Sony Playstation 5 Backwards Compatibility
In september 2020 playstation boss jim ryan when speaking to famitsu via ars technica confirmed that the ps5 will not.
Sony playstation 5 backwards compatibility. The ps5 console is backward compatible with the overwhelming majority of ps4 games. The short answer is yes. More than 99 of ps4 games will be playable on ps5 on day one. Sony is trying to go through each individual title with the developers and publishers to.
Touring mars agentblackdog auto motors and 1 other person like this. The big headliner here is that the company is keeping its promise. Sony interactive entertainment ceo jim ryan says that 99 percent of ps4 games that have been tested are backwards compatible with ps5. Finally we have an idea of how playstation 5 backwards compatibility works.
Sony s support page also explains how backward compatibility. That means an amazing collection of thousands of ps4 games can be played on your ps5 console. The article from sony s senior vice president for platform planning and management hideaki nishino reveals precisely how the feature will function. A post on the official playstation blog has detailed what playstation 5 users can expect from the system s backward compatibility functions.
Ps4 games playable on ps5 consoles the overwhelming majority of the 4 000 ps4 games are playable on ps5 consoles. The ps5 will eventually have backwards compatibility with over 4 000 ps4 games. Before now sony had only promised that the 100 most played. Sony recently published a playstation blog post detailing how playstation 4 games are going to work on the ps5.
Sony details playstation 5 s backwards compatibility functions this article was published by andrew evans famine on october 10th 2020 in the gaming category. This is in stark contrast to microsoft which has made backward compatibility a key pillar of the xbox series x and series s experience.