PS5 is almost here upon us, thanks to Sony’s recently held event that saw the next-gen console receive a price tag and launch date.
Unfortunately, if you can’t wait to play those PS3, or older games, on the new powerful console, chances are you will be disappointed. According to Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO and President Jim Ryan, PS5 will be compatible with most PS4 games – 99 percent. It’s a message Sony has reiterated several times.
But in a recent interview, Ryan revealed that PS5 would not be compatible with PS3, PS2, and PS1 titles. Ryan says the team engineered the PS5 to be compatible with PS4 titles because it already has 100 million players worldwide.
“While implementing that, we also focused our efforts on taking in the high-speed SSD and the new controller DualSense at the same time… So, unfortunately, we could not achieve compatibility with those formats,” he said.
On the current PS4 consoles, the only way to play older PS3 and PS2 games is through Sony’s streaming service, PS Now. Support for PS1 games isn’t available on the PS4. Consequently, on the PS5, chances were minimal for PS1 titles support, if any.
PS Now will be compatible with PS5, though, according to Sony, although that remains to be seen.
At the recent event, Sony announced a new service called PlayStation Plus collection, which will launch alongside the new consoles. The PlayStation Plus collection includes some of the big titles from PS4 and also acts as an answer to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass.