Just after Microsoft talked about the advantages that Xbox Series X will offer in terms of backward compatibility, we stumbled upon related information, only this time it corresponds to the highly anticipated PS5. The novelty? The possibility of playing PS4 games on the next Sony console.
Compatible games immediately
One of the advantages and main attractions that Xbox Series X offers is that once it is put on sale it will be compatible with an almost endless list of games for Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. This avoids complications for developers, who are not seen forced to work on patches and adjustments that allow playing those games from previous generations without problems.
Well, it seems that Sony has been working on something similar, although for now the option is somewhat more limited than Microsoft’s proposal, and leaves the work on the developers’ side. As pointed out in Eurogamer, Sony has communicated to developers that all those PS4 games presented to the company from July 13, 2020 must guarantee the same characteristics in one generation and another.
Additionally, developers will be required to release patches for both PS4 and PS5, so that they can run seamlessly on new PS5 hardware. It is important to emphasize that there is talk of presentation to Sony as a process of evaluation and validation for its publication, and not the launch, so the date of July 13 refers to that certification, and not a commercial launch such as the from Ghost of Tsushima .
PS4 games that will be compatible with PS5
We must remember that not all PS4 games will start with PS5. Sony indicated that most of the 100 most played games on PS4 would run smoothly on the new hardware, but for now it is unknown which titles will be chosen and which ones will ultimately fall off the list.
Regarding how they will be played, the question revolves around whether Sony will dare to launch a service similar to Xbox Series X’s Smart Delivery, which allows us to immediately obtain the most modern version of an Xbox One game so that we can play it in the new console. It is one more example of how advanced things are in Redmond in terms of functions and general approach of the new console, something that we are still waiting for from Sony and that seen what we have seen, they are still going to make us wait for some other week plus.