PS3 BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY PS4
During his technical breakdown of the console in March, Mark Cerny pointed out that the PS5 would be able to run the vast majority of PS4 games, and support the enhanced resolution and frame rates available in PS4 Pro-optimized titles. Once again, it seems worth pointing out that Sony itself has never promised backwards compatibility on the PS5 beyond PS4 games. However, that’s still a far cry from “total backwards compatibility,” which Ubisoft’s message seems to quash.
PS3 BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY UPDATE
There is no software update that will add PS2 backwards compatibility to. Since PlayStation Now already supports a number of PlayStation games from older consoles, it’s not at all ridiculous to believe that Sony could expand PS Now’s functionality and library in the future. ALL 60GB models of the PS3 ever released are backwards compatible with PS2 games. (There is, in fact, a Sony patent to this effect.) PlayStation Now, or a similar service, could theoretically stream old games that players already own from a Sony server. On the other hand, fans who believed that the PS5 would offer complete backwards compatibility cited streaming as one possible avenue.
There’s a reason why if you want to play PS3 games on the PS4, you have to stream them through PlayStation Now. Without going into too much technical detail, the PS3 used a completely different form of processing than the PS4 and the PS5, making backwards compatibility just about impossible. This limitation won’t shock anyone who’s familiar with how PlayStation architecture has changed over time.
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