Sony doesn’t yet know if the PS5 will be backward compatible with all PS4 games, the company has revealed. The company has made several major announcements about the next-gen console this week, confirming thePS5’s release windowand specs, but it has yet to reveal how the backward compatibility will work.
Speaking to Japanese language publicationFamitsu, Sony said that “Currently, the dev team is putting all power on verifying whether they can secure a complete compatibility.” The company also asked its fans to “please wait for more information,” tweeted Twitter user bk2128 in a translation of what Sony said. It’s unclear whether Sony is suggesting that not all PS4 games will be available onPS5or if some parts of PS4 games, such as trophies, multiplayer features, or DLC, will not be available on the console.
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Sony has said that backward compatibility is an important part of what it is trying to do with the PS5. In April, 2019, Mark Cerny suggested that as the PS4 and the PS5 have the same sort of system architecture and so it wouldn’t be so difficult to get PS4 games working on PS5. As the system architect for the new console, Cerny knows what he’s talking about and as backward compatibility was one of the first fewconfirmed PS5 features, it seems unlikely that Sony will go back on that.
Sony revealed a huge amount of information about the PS5 this week, also sharing new details about thePS5’s new controllerand it will address a major UI issue that PS4 players had. However, there is more than a year to go until the console is released and Sony has said that it plans to fully reveal the console in 2020. Hopefully, the next time fans hear about the PS5, Sony will have more to say about backward compatibility.
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