Last month, word broke out suggesting Sony’s PlayStation 5 in regards would only be limited to the preceding hardware, PlayStation 4. The information at the time surfaced through a Ubisoft support page where the publisher disclosed that PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 would not be capable of being included in the new initiative for the coming next-generation console. Although the finding at the time was later erased from the posting then, many ushered the idea to be tangible since it came from a verifiable source – a video game publisher. Not only that, but when explaining how backwards compatibility operated for the unit at the time earlier this year, chief architect Mark Cerny offered that the process to do so – as was implemented on PlayStation 3 – could only be achieved for PlayStation 4. Cerny elaborates by sharing that unique chip sets for the PlayStation 2 to offer backwards compatibility on its successor was installed for PlayStation 3 to offer the feature. But for PlayStation 5, the process would be too expensive and not achievable for the newer hardware. In a recent interview with Famitsu, Sony Interactive Entertainment President & CEO Jim Ryan verifies the claim by explaining that extensive support for prior hardware could not be met on PlayStation 5. We have been building devices with a focus on PS5-specific engineering. Among them, PS4 already has 100 million players, so I thought that I would like to play PS4 titles on PS5 as well, so I introduced PS4 compatibility. While achieving that, we focused on incorporating high-speed SSDs and the new controller DualSense in parallel. So, unfortunately, compatibility with [PS3, PS2, PS1] has not been achieved. The discovery surely does come as a low ball for PlayStation 5 fans as Ryan when speaking to the Washington Post disclosed that roughly “99 percent” of PlayStation 4 titles will be supported for backwards compatibility on the system. Not only traditional media, but also in the form of other mediums as well like PlayStation VR, which Sony revealed elsewhere. More excitingly for PlayStation Plus fans on the newest console, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that a collection of notable PlayStation 4 titles will be handed to subscribers for free on PlayStation 5. The program dubbed ‘PlayStation Plus Collection’, titles like The Last of Us Remastered and Days Gone are just a few mentioned of the dozen plus featured. You can read the full report by heading here. What are your thoughts on no extensive backwards compatibility support for PlayStation 5? PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Digital edition are set to release on November 12, 2020 and November 19, 2020. Source: Ars Technia via Eurogamer Share Everywhere!