A very controversial issue has always been the backward compatibility for generation changes. Although Xbox One currently offers this option to a certain extent, this feature is not available on PlayStation 4. With PS5 and Xbox Scarlett on the horizon, this is once again one of the hottest topics in the minds of users.
PS5 will have backward compatibility for all titles?
After the frustration that PS3 games could not be played on the PS4, Sony has decided to change its approach. The new information shows that the compatibility of games with earlier versions is currently being worked on. And we say “versions” because it’s not yet clear how far this compatibility will go, could it even be on PS3 and PS Vita? Nothing is known yet.
According to Marc-André Jutras, a veteran of Activision and Ubisoft who is currently working with Cradle Games on the next science fiction RPG called Hellpoint, it is very difficult for the next consoles to reach the market without retro compatibility. Although this does not mean that this option must be approved as currently in Xbox One, if not that the games will work based on another console.
PlayStation, I think, it will. Is it the Xbox 360, where they had a compatibility list with the original Xbox, do they have to approve titles by titles? I think it was strange, and I hope it wasn’t,” he said in an exclusive interview with GamingBolt. “I’d rather have an emulator that runs all the games that have a console, maybe with small bugs than saying I have 50 games in my library and I can only play four of them because the others aren’t approved yet.
Knowing which game catalogue will be available for PS5 is hard, but we do know some of the developments that it will have titles including winning horses: Cyberpunk 2077 from CD project RED, the makers of the witch saga or Death Stranding from Kojima Productions.
In this sense, we can already get an idea of what the future of video games will look like. Sony intends to give an extra boost to some of its first party developments such as the exclusive Spider-Man Insomniac, Days Gone Blend or The Last of Us 2, developed by Naughty Dog.