Things are going to change a lot with PlayStation 5 as Sony now believes that backwards compatibility will be an important factor for success over the next generation.
As we all know, PS4 is not backwards compatible if not through a PlayStation Now subscription, which allows playing certain old gen games on streaming.
Things are going to change a lot with PlayStation 5 as Sony now believes that backwards compatibility will be an important factor for success over the next generation.
Jim Ryan, the boss at PlayStation who claimed that players never got to use backwards compatibility when Microsoft pushed a lot on the topic with Xbox One, now says that it is “something that’s extremely powerful.”
According to Ryan, the community is “somewhat tribal in its nature,” and this is why Sony wanted to let gamers play with their friends not depending on purchasing a next-gen system altogether.
He thinks that backwards compatibility will indeed be a “really critical success factor” for PS5, one that will be “incredibly important” – what a change of heart.
We can add that, with the lineup of games still coming to PlayStation 4, not having PS5 able of running the likes of Death Stranding, The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima would have been a foolish move.
PS5 is releasing in fall 2020, according to rumors, so there’s a chance you might be purchasing some of those games and then play on the next-gen system, although we don’t know whether this would allow you to get some technical advantage or not yet.
