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Sony revealed the most important details about PlayStation 5, its price and release dates, during the presentation of PlayStation 5 on Wednesday. But one thing the company didn’t discuss at all is backward compatibility, which is perhaps the biggest remaining question mark about the PS5.
We got a little update from PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan this week, courtesy of an interview with the Washington Post. Ryan said that of the thousands of PlayStation 4 games that Sony has tested so far with the PS5, “99 percent” are compatible with the next generation console.
“The PS4 community will continue to be incredibly important to us for three to four years,” Ryan said. “Many will move to PS5, we hope if we do our job well, but tens of millions will remain committed to PS4.
This follows a statement from Sony in May in which the company said it had to evaluate each game in the PS4 library, which comprises more than 4,000 titles, to verify its compatibility with the PS5 on a case-by-case basis. Sony said it expects PS4 games to run at “increased frequency” on the PS5, providing “higher or more stable frame rates and potentially higher resolutions.” Microsoft has provided much more specific information about backward compatibility on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
Sony hasn’t given any real details about backward compatibility for PS5. Some third parties, like Cyberpunk 2077 CD Projekt editor and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Publisher Activision has already said that the PS4 versions of its games will be playable on PS5 at launch. Sony has yet to provide even a partial list of the PS4 games that will work with the PS5, or any idea how many titles the console will support at launch. There is also no indication of how, exactly, backward compatibility will work on the PS5, and it is unknown if people who own physical PS4 games will have any way to play them on the discless PS5 digital edition. Polygon has contacted Sony for clarification and we will update this article with any information we receive.
PlayStation 5 ($ 499.99) and PS5 Digital Edition ($ 399.99) launch November 12 in the US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea; It will debut a week later, on November 19, in Europe, the Middle East, South America, other Asian countries (except China) and South Africa.
