Sony: 'Overwhelming Majority' of PS4 Games Will be Playable on PS5 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2020 / 4,981 Views
It was reported earlier this week that most of the top 100 most played PlayStation 4 games will work on the PlayStation 5 on launch day. However, Sony Interactive Entertainment has provided an update saying that the majority of PS4 games will be playable on PS5.
"With all of the amazing games in PS4’s catalog, we’ve devoted significant efforts to enable our fans to play their favorites on PS5," said Sony. "We believe that the overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5.
"We’re expecting backward compatible titles will run at a boosted frequency on PS5 so that they can benefit from higher or more stable frame rates and potentially higher resolutions. We’re currently evaluating games on a title-by-title basis to spot any issues that need adjustment from the original software developers.
"In his presentation, Mark Cerny provided a snapshot into the Top 100 most-played PS4 titles, demonstrating how well our backward compatibility efforts are going. We have already tested hundreds of titles and are preparing to test thousands more as we move toward launch. We will provide updates on backward compatibility, along with much more PS5 news, in the months ahead. Stay tuned!"
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Full PlayStation backwards compatibility needs to be the focus
Why focus on the past when we should be focusing on the future :P
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.
Not really, there isn't enough demand to justify the cost.
Why not all though?
Because sometime sw just don't work and possibly some of those will be game barely anyone cares.
Good they clarified its not just the top100 most played titles.
Now get to the PS3/PS2/PS1 titles as well :)
It's a little strange that they say this right after the xbox announcement. But whatever. The more games the better.
They did it because a lot of publications were confused about PS5 BC.
That was obvious, I said it.
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.
@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.
This is great and all, but I'd love to see some new games.
'We believe.' Sounds like 'one day, hope this blows over'.
Why would you buy a new console to play old games? People are weird.
I may have been too harsh on Sony in their previous statements about BC. The way Sony presents it though, it sounds like the compatibility list could be disappointing at launch.
Hey Sony, could you confirm whether or not most PS5 games be playable on PS5? I need some more obvious information =)
why two different statements in the same week?
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.
This looks like damage control after the Xbox announcement. Not sure why they didn't design the machine with full backwards compatibility with the PS4 in mind.
@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.
Never missing a chance to say something very wrong to take a dig at playstation.
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.
@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.
Oh god, well you never know, it might slide in there.
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