Sony: 'Overwhelming Majority' of PS4 Games Will be Playable on PS5 - News

Oh god, well you never know, it might slide in there.

Actually now that I think about it, maybe it's highly likely that it will? Because it was a mystery how that was approved for the PSN store in the first place. Conspiracy theories suggest the owner of the game knows a Sony higher up. lol Now I'm going to keep an eye out for this game on the BC list.

Why focus on the past when we should be focusing on the future :P

It clearly is the focus. "we’ve devoted significant efforts to enable our fans to play their favorites on PS5. We believe that the overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5."

Full BC for all PlayStation platforms

@Bandorr ...they devoted significant efforts on BWC sure, but you're mistaken if you think they didn't devote even more significant effort to the PS5 and its future.

Don't quite know what you mean V-rock. is BWC backwards compatibility? Never seen it with the W. And yeah probably.
They probably started at the top and then started supporting the PS4.

Not really, there isn't enough demand to justify the cost.

Because it takes time and we don't know what solution they are taking.

No one is doing all. Even Xbox put out a correction explaining that.

Because sometime sw just don't work and possibly some of those will be game barely anyone cares.

Sorry, but that's incredibly unlikely if PSNow continues existing.

They did it to clarify to the people that there will be more than 100 BC.
Same reason Xbox had to post a clarification that they aren't 100% BC.

I didn't see that. so xbox one games are not 100% BC?

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/442837/all-xbox-one-games-will-work-on-xbox-series-x-updated/
You can see the update.
They tweeted something. When asked for clarification they deleted that tweet and added the one in the tweet.
Sounds very much like what Sony is doing.
They are "testing" what games will work and expect to have thousands when it releases.

My reply didn't show up. Maybe it will later and this is a duplicate? Go look at the other article on the front page. It talks about the Xbox. It got a correction. Xbox is testing their games and expect thousands to be there at launch. So not full BC but who knows how close.

They did it because a lot of publications were confused about PS5 BC.

The problem is Sony was being too vague. Their top 100 games comment suggested they're really just focusing on a relatively small number of popular games. It still seems a tad concerning they've only tested hundreds of games at this point for example.

MS hasn't really confirmed how many games will be supported at launch. But Sony's bad messaging encouraged MS to boast thousands of games will work at launch.

Just for people with comprehension problems. Cerny said they took years on putting the logic of PS4 inside the silicon (to never be removed) and that they TESTED the top 100 most played and almost all worked perfectly. Then whoever that wanted to create problems run with only 100 games being BC at launch.

Here's a thought. Why didn't Sony simply say, "We hope to get the entire library working and thousands could work at launch. Among them are virtually all the most played games"

You will defend Sony and neglect the messaging was terrible.

Because they are hoping, they tested and know most games will work fine. You want to say they could message it better sure that is ok, but that wasn't what you were coming from.

Why did Xbox tweet out "All Xbox One Games Will Work on Xbox Series X" only to then have to shamefully delete it and post an updated tweet with a correction?

Not to mention we already have people in this thread complaining about "believe" do you think hope would have gone over any better?

@Bandorr - It was the opposite with MS. They accidentally said everything will work. But even the update clarifying only thousamds will work at launch was still better than Sony's original statement.

Most important, Sony clarified they tested hundreds of games. Unfortunately, they only tested hundreds of games.

I thought it sounds like "at a minimum this console isn't coming out for another 8 months." Otherwise you get the same people going 'but but but but you said, YOU SAID' etc.

Because people are overly simple. They actually though the BC was limited to just 100 games. So they had to clarify for the easily confused.

They aren't different. This is a clarification for who didn't understand that 100 was the test for boosting, but that BC logic was on the chip of PS5 so most games would work fine anyway.

They actually had AMD build the custom chipset with PS4 logic in mind. This took AMD years to do.
But each game has to be tested individually. It's the same thing with Xbox. Only Xbox have a 5-6 year head start on making games compatible.

"While we are still in the process of validating, we can confirm thousands of games will be playable at launch."
"we’ve devoted significant efforts to enable our fans to play their favorites on PS5. We believe that the overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5."

The first one was Xbox. The second was Cerny.
Xbox is in the process of validating. So is Sony.
Xbox is confirming "thousands of games". Sony is claiming 4k+ titles.

Neither are doing full BC. They are both doing the testing.

@Bandorr You know perfectly well that I was referring to the original Xbox tweet saying that all Xbox One games will be backwards compatible.

Even ignoring that, the difference is quite obvious - thousands of Xbox One games playable at launch vs a 100 of the most popular on the PS4. The difference is obvious.

Zenos you seem confused - on multiple fronts.
I will start with the most obvious one.
"We believe that the overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5."

Never missing a chance to say something very wrong to take a dig at playstation.

@Bandorr Did you somehow missed the words AT LAUNCH in my post? I capitalised them this time so hopefully it helps.

You can post that vague quote 4000+ more times and it doesn't change anything I said, but do keep damage controlling even when it's not necessary.

@DonFerrari Or really now? What's the "very wrong" thing I've said here? This should be fun.

You are plenty wrong on PS5 not being designed with PS4 BC in mind. But you keep refusing to admit.

@DonFerrari Hm, so much like Bandorr up there, you didn't read what I wrote. Let's try the above strategy again. From my original post - "with FULL BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY with the PS4 in mind". Hopefully this stop you from misrepresenting me, but I somehow doubt it since you jump on every one of my posts criticising Sony. You must be some sort of a console partisan.

What Bandorr seems to be referring to is that both PS5 and XSX were designed with full BC capability in mind. They'll just have to test and patch them on a game by game basis. Some game here and there may not be feasible, but you should have the vast majority of titles available in the end for both systems. Microsoft rather seems to have a head start in testing games for BC, which is likely due to them already having the BC solution invented 5+ years ago. While Sony had to wait for AMD for a few years to come up with a solution for them, before they could begin testing.

@Hiku, no that's what you were saying and I agree that's the case. What Bandorr was doing was misrepresenting what I was saying and trying to divert the conversation in a direction saying that eventually both consoles will be backwards compatible, while I specifically mentioned the launch window in my initial post.

One could argue that if both consoles were designed with full BC in mind then the architectural solution should've made it possible on day 1 similar to PS2 with PS1 games. Of course there would be the odd one that wouldn't work, but when BC was mentioned this is what the general public perceived. The new solution is more akin to a fusion of emulation and porting.