What makes you think that?

I'd love to have all my PSN games playable from PSX to PS4 on PS5. That would really make me want to pre-order the console as soon as they become available. I'd want ONE machine to run all of my PSN purchases in 4K upscaled with good emulation and enhancements. That would be a huge huge factor for me.

This is for PS5.. Makes no sense to develop features for a console almost at the end of its lifecycle.

Some interesting things concerning this patent. Take a look at the structure...

If running on the new CPU (PS5 software), it runs the application. The end.

But if it's running on the legacy CPU (i.e., backwards compatibility mode), there are some interesting implications.

"With selected available resources restricted" can mean it just shuts off extraneous processes, or something else. Not sure.

"With selected features disabled" could mean a number of things: disabling potential DLSS or real time ray tracing for software it wasn't made for (assuming it has either)? Online features? Trophy support? It's pretty ambiguous and may depend on the software on a case-by-case basis.

"Latency of instruction execution altered" is an interesting one because it not only confirms a CPU with different clock cycles (duh), but it also means that, if they are altered, titles will run differently than the legacy hardware. I'm tempted to say "better" of course, but obviously, "altered " simply suggests it will not run *the same* as the original legacy hardware.

What's quite interesting is the diagram doesn't seem to suggest it will manage all 4 modes simultaneously, but in one of 4 ways, which probably means we'll have options.

Last thing I want to say: this is the patent for how it runs with the CPU... there is nothing about the GPU, which makes me think that this is going to really up the ante on existing software in terms of graphics processing. Maybe that patent has yet to surface, but if there isn't one, it will probably try to run games in BC mode with the full weight of the GPU behind it. That's pretty damn exciting.

The article just posts the patent and I'm a bit disappointed they don't say more in terms of analysis. There's a fair amount of speculation to be gleaned from this.

no one cares about your trophies the more you have the more of a loser you are.

Hopefully it's full BC and you have access to the digital downloads you purchased on PS3. I personally have around 70 PSN digital downloads from the PS3 era, so I will be over the moon if this comes true.

It is and it will support Blu-ray coz its Sony's baby.

Microsoft showed Sony the way on this one

@Dilly

You do know PS4 is the first PS to come without native backwards compatibility, right? MS showed nowt pal.

"Microsoft showed Sony the way on this one"

lol....we don't even know what Sony has planned for BC. But of course you are going to give credit to MS regardless and pretend they invented concept of backward compatibility.

I'd use it.

What you mean is "very few" would use it.

It won't matter how many people use it, the PR will be good for Sony. It blows the Switch and Xbox 1 games library out of the water.

20 + years of gaming on one console. Only PC can match that much of a back catalogue. That's if its full BC, and not just the add new titles each month approach of MS.

There are some select PS3 titles that didnt get remasters on PS4 that I'd love to play again like the Motorstorm Trilogy, Mod Nation Racers, Puppeteer, Little Big Planet 1 & 2, Killzone 2 & 3, Ni No Kuni, etc. But beyond those I wouldnt care to play anything else.

Someone gets it

BC is not a system seller by itself. It's more of a selling point, but those points add up when a gamer is trying to decide which system to go all in on.

And selected bc is hardly a hole in one. I want to play all my games like ps2 and first run ps3 did.

Jesus I need to proof read

Yes you do!

Because no matter how old we get, we still turn into little kids when we think about next gen. At least for me. Brings me back :)

@wwinterj

Tech moves fast, look at the quality of life improvements PS4 made over PS3.

- Background downloads where better
- Share button
- Party system
- Suspend and resume.
- Full remote play
- Suspend and resume (by far my fav feature)

I'm excited not just for next gen games, but next gen console features.

Imagine if they vastly improved share play. Or your able to play a game as downloads and installs are quicker.

Or being able to switch between two digital games. Playing Spiderman, friends come on for half an hour for COD, just save state Spiderman and bam load up COD.

When your finished, a button press and back to Spiderman!

You have to ask?

King Noctis & Jester

Everyone says its a nice feature. But unlike what a lot of Xbox fans say, BC doesn't make or break a console. New games are far more important for a console.

Switch has no bc

Okay, whatever you say. Are you suggesting they should have just waited instead? You realize that the team's who did BC aren't the same ones who create and develop video games, right?

The NVidia app doesn't let you choose which version of, DLSS Frame Gen and DLSS Ray Reconstruction like DLSS Swapper does.

4 and 4.5 are available on 2 and 3 series cards right now. The Switch GPU is based on 3 series architecture, meaning it has access to some of those features. Obviously not as much as the higher end cards, but still some.