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- PS5 will not be backward compatible with PS3, PS2 or PS1 games, according to a new support document on Ubisoft’s website.
- Sony has yet to officially confirm or deny that PS3, PS2, or PS1 games can be played on PS5, but this is the most compelling evidence that they won’t be.
- Sony says that “the vast majority of the over 4,000 PS4 titles will be playable on PS5,” but it’s unclear how many will be playable on PS5 at launch.
Sony has spent the past seven years crushing Microsoft in the video game market. Not only did the PS4 outsell the Xbox One throughout the generation, but Sony’s selection of original exclusives beat Microsoft’s throughout. With all that in mind, the PS5 outselling the Xbox Series X may seem like a foregone conclusion, but Microsoft has a trump card that Sony can’t seem to match: backward compatibility.
Throughout the year, Microsoft has been touting the fact that thousands of games will be playable on the Xbox Series X from day one, dating back to the original Xbox era. Meanwhile, Sony hasn’t been all that forthright about its plans to make classic games playable on PS5, but according to a recently added support page on Ubisoft’s website about the transition to next-gen consoles, compatibility with older versions of PS3, PS2 and PS1 is not. on the cards.
“Backward compatibility will be available for supported PlayStation 4 titles, but will not be possible for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 or PlayStation games,” the support page reveals, perhaps inadvertently.
Sony has been suspiciously quiet about how or if games that came out before 2013 will be playable on the PS5, but this support article definitely makes it seem like there won’t be any way to play PS3, PS2, or PS1 games that currently owns. on the new console. If this turns out to be true, it could give Microsoft a huge advantage.
Sony first confirmed that PS4 games could be played on PS5 in an interview with Cabling over a year ago. Since then, the only other information the company has shared about backward compatibility on PS5 was during an in-depth presentation in March, in which system architect Mark Cerny announced that “almost all” of the 100 PS4 games Most played will be playable on the PS5 at launch. The company eventually added that “the vast majority of the more than 4,000 PS4 titles will be playable on PS5,” but did not offer a time frame for when that might be the case.
It’s worth noting that the PS4 was also not backward-compatible with the PS3, PS2, or PS1, but that a sizeable selection of those classic games is available on the platform through the PS Now subscription service. Presumably this service will carry over to the PS5 somehow, but this is another of the myriad things we don’t know about the PS5, which is probably less than three months away from hitting stores.
Jacob began covering video games and technology in college as a hobby, but quickly realized that this was what he wanted to do for a living. He currently resides in New York writing for BGR. His previously published work can be found on TechHive, VentureBeat, and Game Rant.
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