Anyone who thinks MS won’t have games made specifically for the SX is a fool. MS WILL have next gen games AND BC for most of current gen. PS5 will not have a robust BC program so to me it seems PS5 will come up short

'forwards compatibility'
Still talking about that commercial lie?

I just want to point out... I dont know if its PR or because MS themselves is trying to scream it loudly but .. Sony isnt planning on just a few games to run. They're testing hundreds and hundreds of top games and working to get them running. I still want to point out that everyone extols the XB One backward compat.... I am still waiting for half the games I want from the original XBOX to be backward compat. They have LIKE 3 DOZEN out of 1000 original xbox games working and have discontinued making any more backward compatible. Yes they have a good number of GOOD ones but we're missing TONS of the best original Xbox games. Can I play jet grind radio future? NO. I am not going to go down the list but its not like I can just THROW IN my fav OG Xbox games. The 360 is a bit better with many of its games being backward compatible. Of the over 3000 games released between the original XBOX and the 360 about 600 are backward compatible. Like 20% of them. Just saying. If that was backward compatibility worth praising then Sony is doing OK with PS5.

Let's be real; whether or not you find BC important or not, MS knocked it out of the park with how they handled it this generation, and that really did offer value to the platform.
I'd love to see stuff like that from all of the big three.

Even if Microsoft has exclusive 1st party games that are available on Xbox One and XBSX, the 3rd parties will also create PS4 versions alongside PS5 versions to catch the remaining market share.

In the first two years we always see developers lagging behind in next gen development.

We dont even have the full details on either :/

IGN lol, these guys went to shit a long time ago, beating a dead horse over and over again.

Eh options are never a bad thing. Neither strategy is wrong.

IGN can't help themselves but to repeat the same topic over and over while still not knowing Sony's full plan.
Until Sony make the move I'm back to clearing my PS4 backlog.

Sony is playing it smart we dont want to continue using slower and outdated hardware 5 years or so into the life cycle of newer machine. I have no idea what MS is thinking.

I live digging through my retro library on PC and consoles I'm currently replaying far cry 1 just as something to do while waiting for the heavy hitters of the year to launch.

Having a console that can play these games from the past but improve them by adding HDR I'm very impressed.

And bring able to play my favourites now like rdr2 with improvment that's pretty special

I feel like they're just answering questions how they're expected to and not really thinking through what each stance could be.
ie "Does it seem a little late to require PS5 compat. for PS4 games starting july?"
No i CAN'T be done much earlier, you would likely need to get a LOT more dev units out in the wild which means more leaking for a console that we haven't seen yet as well as some aspects still being tba.
As it is now if Daemon ask is it "too" something they'll just answer "yes it is TOO much things should be different because different is a better decision even though I don't have the slightest bit of an insight to what Sony or MS have to think about and balance."

Microsoft screwed this gen by thinking BC was a substitute for proper 1st party games. I couldnt care less about bc. Keep your ps4 to play ps4 games.

PS5 plays all PS4 games.

Too make PS3 compatible would be much more difficult as most games used Cell for Graphics work as well. They would have to use an emulator and although there are PS3 emulators that have made great strides they are far from perfect.

If it was there fine. But it doesn't bother me as PS4 is.

I really want to see what PS5 is capable of.

Backwards compatibility is NOT a pro consumer action in itself rather it is a populist action. Cost of development will rise in next gen games overall, but forcing backwards compatibility is an extra cost that will hurt in the mid term the price of the games for the player. And compromise the advancing of the game. forcing the adopters of new hardware to deal with games that do not make the most of their investment. But it feels good for the ones that aren't intending to move to new generation so fast, and that will hurt even more the ones that want to invest on the next xbox, by slowing the growth of the installed base, when you do this the machine tend to go into a bad feedback loop of interest/priority for developers which will make the installed base growth even slower in a long term.
Making the investment on the new machine even worse for the ones that want to support the brand. See, in the end this is not a good thing for consumers at all and the one that will be hurt more will be the ones that show the most support for the platform and the enthusiasts of the brand. In the long term this is another strategic mistake for MS. A real pro consumer move, would be for both of the companies to give the next gen version of a title for players that bought a copy of a crossgen title. That would incentivise to adopt the new one without letting last gen guys down, and Developers wouldn't have to change the next gen projects adding costs given support for a dying machine. Fostering the growth of the new machine without killing the support of the games already on the making.
And you can do this and yet allow devs that want to do a new game with backwards compatibility free to choose to do so, not forcing them to do it for years… which is a constraint that will put apart devs that can't afford the costs, slowing further the growth of the install base, accelerating the bad feedback loop.
Populism never works, never! Is a simpleton way to make things.

Is it ps5 too good or the games made for it?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Xbox does not have proper backwards compatibilty. Even if you have your 360 disk, once you put it in you still need to download the Xbox One 'compatible' full version digitally ? And even then only certain games are supported? As I understand it you will be able to put your PS4 disk into your PS5 and simply play off that as you would do now.

As long as the popular titles are included then that's fine by me.

I don’t know if games I would buy during State Of Play would work on day one, weeks,months, years or at all.

So I end up not buying any....

Meanwhile on Xbox everything comes with you and just works...

For me.... Money is not growing on trees and a console is a huge hit financially. If I didn't save money over the years I would not be able to get a new console.

I won't have a lot of money to spend on games and the few "next gen" games I do buy will not be in quantity... I personally get burn out playing the same game to many hours and have to mix it up with something different (not necessarily new).

Backwards Compatibility provides me with added value in my new console while giving me access to games I haven't finished or would like to revisit. New games don't drop in price right away so at least first six months of a new console's cycle is full price on everything .... in other words : Expensive...

I also like a clean minimal home theater setup with as few electronics as possible. Having tons of game consoles is not ideal.... A new console playing last gen games could eliminate a game console (this applies to xbox too).

Bc.... is a good thing

I'l play my PS4 for a year or two after PS5 release. I've got an enormous back log.

Watching the people on here justify getting less for their money, simply because the company they adore is doing a bad job at offering it ..

So If I buy a game on my PS4 I will have to re-buy it on my PS5 if I want to enjoy the graphics?

Just think about it. They entered the console space they were the new guys and dominated everyone for 2 straight generations

I'm excited for PS5 but as someone who likes to revisit older games in my collection I wish they allowed for at least PS1 and PS2 as well as PS4.

It’s not as good. I don’t have much faith in Sony expanding the bc library past what comes at launch. With Xbox u get all x1 titles running and looking better

It just means that there is no real rush to buy a Series X for 2 years. seeing that you really not gaining much because of Microsoft's policy. I could get a deeply discounted XB1X and enjoy the MS stuff for cheap another 2 years.

new consoles to mostly play new games

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

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!