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"Almost all" top 100 PS4 games will be playable at launch on the PS5, with more titles playable over time

JORMBO

Darkness no more
Not sure what is accurate about BC at the moment:




Lastly, we’re excited to confirm that the backwards compatibility features are working well. We recently took a look at the top 100 PS4 titles as ranked by play time, and we’re expecting almost all of them to be playable at launch on PS5. With more than 4000 games published on PS4, we will continue the testing process and expand backwards compatibility coverage over time.

Cerny said "most of the top 100" Ps4 games will be playable at release. How does everyone feel about this? I thought most PS4 games would be playable. :(
 
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Hinedorf

Banned
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I told you all what a stupid idea backwards compatibility was. EAT IT! ALL OF YOU EAT IT!

Stop asking for stupid things, go buy a PS4 if you want old games
 

Fox Mulder

Member
What I expected really.

BC usually just meant things may work with issues. MS put lots of effort into their xb1 BC and embraced it as a feature with enhancements to games.

Sony just doesn’t seem to really care that much. You can’t even get the cheap ass ps1 games on the ps4.
 

Aranea

Member
So Capcom will be skipping a patch of RE 4 PS4 version and instead sell the game again lol. Hopefully most games i play are compatible.
 
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hunthunt

Banned
Weird, I though it was just throw the games as they are since its the same architecture.

I think Sony may be pissing the bed a little bit with Ps5, this better be 100$ less than the Series X
 

LordOfChaos

Member
Stoopid. I thought one of the PS5's key edges would be simply carrying the PS4's momentum forward with full compatibility with all the games you already have - get one as both an 8th gen upgrade as well as new 9th gen exclusives - but if they messed that up that advantage is gone.


Starting to wonder about my next gen choice tbh...
 

#Phonepunk#

Banned
i mean, duh. this is how it works with literally every single BC system ever. it isn't going to play 100% of all games right out of the box. having that expectation is pretty silly, given how BC has worked in every other real world instance. sometimes, the older games work right away. sometimes they don't, the faster framerate breaks physics, etc. so the games need to be patched. they do this on xbox.

i dunno, some people freaking out right now are on this "all or nothing" trip. they won't be happy until it plays every single game released in the past 25 years. that's a pretty silly expectation.
 
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This is very disappointing and Sony really haven't tried as hard as Microsoft on this. I must say that the series x looks more appealing for multiplatform games.
 

DonF

Member
lol wtf, he said that the architecture has assured retrocompat, but still due to changes of hardware, games should be tested on a game to game basis, BUT they tested the 100 most played game and all those games work perfectly.
You can extrapolate that to say that most of ps4 games will play without issues or with minor issues.

I bet its going to be better than ps1 retrocompat on the ps2 and that was like a 98% compatbility.
 
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