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Shadow Complex – Remastered
The exact details of PS5 backward compatibility have long been confusing, but Sony is doing its best to clear the air with everything but a major preview program like Microsoft has been running with the Xbox Series X. At the end of the week, an information page on Sony’s support site went into more detail than ever before, with a fun little section. While the “overwhelming majority” of the 4,000+ PS4 games will run on PS5, some will not. And Sony released a little list:
- DWVR
- Afro Samurai 2 Kuma’s Revenge Volume One
- Isle of Man TT – Ride on the Edge 2
- Just deal with it!
- Shadow Complex Remastered
- Robinson: the journey
- we sang
- Hitman Go: Definitive Edition
- Shadwen
- Joe’s Diner
It’s a fun strategy: By acknowledging that no, not all PS4 games will work on PS5, Sony really underscores how little it will, in theory, matter if the list looks like this. There are two games here that I know of, and both are actually great: Shadow Complex Remastered Y Hitman GO: Definitive Edition, But overall, the list is dark and specific enough to ease people’s fears that their favorite games won’t work on the new machine. Unless your favorite games include Just deal with it! I suppose. Sony acknowledges that this list could change, of course.
I am cautiously optimistic about backward compatibility given this recent information. However, there is still a line on Sony’s support page that gives me pause: “Also, some PS4 games may exhibit bugs or unexpected behavior when played on PS5 consoles.” That line is general enough that we don’t know how many games it might apply to, and it’s the kind of language you put on a page like this to acknowledge that unexpected problems are going to occur.
Still, like I said, cautiously optimistic. In a broad and philosophical sense, Xbox still has a much more robust backward compatibility program than PlayStation this time around, but I have a feeling that we won’t notice this nearly as much when consoles start shipping. As long as most of the big games run on the new consoles, things will go more or less well.
