The new console of the Japanese multinational will offer the possibility of playing Ps4 titles, but not previous versions. The words of the CEO of the multinational Jim Ryan
The great presentation of Playstation 5 has delivered a significant amount of content and features for discussion in the coming weeks. The date of November 19, 2020, the day of the launch in Italy of the next generation license plate Sony, will be preceded by careful analysis, evaluations, etc. to understand if, how and when to buy the new console.
The Japanese multinational, in the last event, focused on those details not yet revealed but that were leaked from various sectors in terms of rumors and various rumors. Pricing and release date took the stage and then some interesting titles present at launch were given ample space. There has also been talk of services, look at the Playstation Plus Collection, but not many words have been wasted on backwards compatibility.
The doubts that everyone still carried with them have been officially clarified and explained directly by Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony, who gave an interview to Famitsu.
Ps5, backward compatibility with Ps4
The interview obviously covered several topics, but nothing new compared to what we already know well about the brand new Playstation 5 and the video game offering that revolves around it. Everything except the backward compatibility issue.
Speaking specifically of Playstation 4, Ryan said: “Despite its seventh year, PS4 can offer a number of games exclusively, thanks to Worldwide Studios. This is very important, and even if Ps5 is released, there will be tens of millions of people who will continue to play on Ps4 in the future. On the other hand, among the 100 million users of Ps4, there are many players who are looking forward to the Ps5. The existence of the worldwide studio has allowed us to produce more launch titles than ever.
Hope everyone is happy, you can also play Ps4 games on Ps5. We have tried and tested every game currently on the market and I am very happy to say that 99% of them are compatible. ”Good news, as all current Sony users will be able to use the library of video games they have built over time in the future.
Ps5, compatibility with previous versions of Playstation
If what was said in relation to Ps4 was quite obvious and had already been announced for some time, the perplexity about Ps1, Ps2 and Ps3 remained. The prospect of backward compatibility was hard to imagine and the reality of the story is explained by Ryan himself: “We built a device with special attention to the specialized engineering of Ps5. Among them, Ps4 already has 100 million players, so we think they would like to play Ps4 titles on Ps5 as well, so we introduce backward compatibility for Ps4.
To achieve this goal, we focused on the parallel incorporation of high-speed SSDs and the new DualSense controller. So unfortunately we have not achieved backward compatibility with Ps1, Ps2 and Ps3 “.
