When have we ever gotten official news from PlayStation Iceland? My thoughts exactly. I'll wait for the real announcement.

But Mark Cerny has already spoken on this. Only question on everyone's minds is how far does the BC go beyond PS4 Pro, PS4 and PSVR? Because it's going to be used as ammo for and against Sony in future articles and comments.

I’m for one am hopeful the PS5 is BC at least with the PS4... I’m tired of having to play games with headphones just to drown out the sound of the PS4 pro fan. I want to be able to play some PS4 games I have in my backlog on a nice quiet PS5

BC compatibility is nice but I like new IPs more

I'd rather they focused on the Playstation 5 not the Playstation 4.

I really don't care so much to play games I've already played on the PS4. I want the PS5 to play next gen exclusives & multi-plats.

A lot of people still want to play their old games, and it would be great if the PS5 could play PS3 games as well as all PS4 games.

I just want to buy a sperm white ps5

I’d prefer to have the majority of PS4 games running well rather than have all running, but glitchy.
I’d assume that all more recently released games will be supported and then the majority of the main early PS4 games... but I guess we’ll see.

Sooooo.....how many games at launch?

Cerny said, they are testing games in "PS5" mode but that cpu has special "Jaguar compatibility" mode which can be choosed if there are problems with games. So they did what they could do and now it is primarily about testing and deciding if:
1)game will run in gpu boosted mode and cpu boosted mode
2)game will run in gpu boosted mode and cpu compatibility mode
3)game will run in gpu normal mode and cpu boosted mode
4)game will run in gpu normal mode and cpu compatibility mode

They mentioned, that gpu can run in PS4, PS4 Pro and PS5 mode. I dont know if PS4 games can run also in PS5 mode, so that would be 3 modes for gpu and 2 for cpu.

Thats lot of testing. I dont think we have to afraid if games will run in BC, but in what BC mode they will run.

Thats all.

God I just hope the PS5 has compatibility with PS4 racing wheels

Microsoft is far ahead of that feature, Xbox Series will allow access to library games to all games since Xbox and games will be automatically enhanced by the machine with better FPS and graphics adjustment.

This isnt new. after cerny talked about this and some try to downplay it and told only 100 games would work at launch.... The reality was at least 100 will get upgrades at launch, 4000 will work. There no spin here. The games you got on the PS4 will play on the PS5.

Eh even if somehow the PS5 cannot play pre Ps4 games, as long as I got my launch 60gb PS3 I'm good.😁

I was really hoping for full backwards compatibility.

From my understanding PS4 backwards compatibility will have three modes.

1. Vanilla PS4 Titles
2. PS4 Pro Enhanced Titles.
3. PS5 Enhanced Titles.

Then you will be given the option to run the PS4/PS4 Pro games at higher PS5 level clocks.

Backwards compatibility is one of those features highly talked about rarely used. When i get a new system i want to play new games exclusive to it. I remember when I got the ps3, it could play old games off the disk, never used it.

Matter of when.

I want full 100% ps4 backwards compatibility on the ps5, so I can get rid off my ps4.

I understand backwards compatibility is a great feature to have, tbh as a business why would Sony allow you to go back as far as ps3 and ps2. That’s where they could capitalize On PS now sales and feature those games for ten a month since the demand is so high.

As long as the medium to major games are compatible it's OK. Every BC they add can also be sold digitally. I've missed many games like horizons and spiderman

Hey Sony!

Want to finally top the PS2? Have the 5 play ALL PREVIOUS PS GAMES. DISC OR DOWNLOAD.

Customer > your PSNow profits.

Soooo, pretty much like how XB1's BC works now then? I thought that was a terrible thing?

I expect this and demand it. I own over 130 games on the Playstation 4 network, about half I legit purchased the other half are the "free" games we get for paying the PlayStation Now service cost.

If Sony didn't allow me to download my digital titles and play them on the Playstation 5, I would never ever buy another non-exclusive from Sony again.

I think the average gamer understands that PS1 to PS3 were all hugely differing CPU designs and not based on X86/X64 CPU architecture like the Xbox is so some difficulty exists that Microsoft doesn't have to deal with, however that doesn't change the fact that emulators exist online for PS1 & 2, and the PS3 emulation is progressing smoothly. Sony can do it with some effort and they should do it.

Anyways, for myself, there are virtually no old games in PS1-3 library I would care to replace outside of Resistance Series, but millions of other gamers DO.

I am mainly concerned about the Playstation Store allowing me to download my Digital Games for PS4 and play them directly on PS5.

Some dumb people will say "oh they don't need to do this". Yes they do. Xbox does it, the PC has done it forever, Android and Apple do it with their respective stores.

Hopefully Sony is very very clear next week on how they will handle this.

LMAO.

Beautiful thing!

This will be cool. I rather not buy RDR2 again.

if I buy a game on PC it works forever. I hate that the games I spend my hard earned money on , may not work next gen consoles?! what kind of a dumb model is that? I want all my PS games to work on the latest console. It's honestly ridiculous! BC should always be a thing and I don't care if I have to pay $100 extra, because thats a negligible amount compared to the thousands of dollars spent on PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 games. Seriously, this needs to be a bigger issue. if they support full BC instead of stupid PSNow, it will be another reason to upgrade. Xbox is going with a very smart approach supporting their large library of games since XBOX. This is a win for the customer. We need Sony to think about all the money we spent on the games of previous consoles.

You spent hard earned money on their games, what you mean I can't play my PS1/PS2/PS3/PS4 game on your new console? BC must be standard. We gotta push for this.

MS is so sneaky, they are making it look like that they are being pro consumer with their aggressive Backward Compatibility support, They are doing this because they know they can profit from these old games, xbox gamers only bought halo forza and gears these people are going to have to buy these old games to experience BC.

And if they are successful in enticing consumers, ps4 owners who are going to jump ship, "will buy" old xbox games to experience bc, large profit for ms. While sony won't be able to enjoy extra profit because playstation owners who wants bc probably already own the games they would like to replay on ps5.

The statement didn't mean we will see ps4 games be upgraded to ps5 versions. It means that ps4 games can be patched to run on ps5 which we already knew

I hope any games that don't come over are cash grab games like Fallout 76, Anthem etc.

Cool :) Looking forward to June 4th

Do all of you just immediately lose your old consoles when you buy a new one somehow?.. I still have my launch 60 gig PS3. Hell... I still have an Atari 7800.

To the people unhappy about PS5 having no backwards compatibility: just keep your PS4...?

Personally, I'm buying a new console to play new games. Yes, it'd be convenient to play everything on just one machine, but for Sony it's an expensive requirement to deliver that, honestly, isn't in high enough of a demand for it to be profitable.

I have my PS1, PS2 and PS3 for the odd occasion I want to visit nostalgia town. My PS4 will serve the same purpose when I buy my PS5, so a lack of backwards compatibility isn't a deal breaker for me.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau