WTF Is PlayStation’s Back-Compat Plan? - Inside Gaming Daily

There’s great news for PS4 owners and Sony fans today! Developer documentation released on PlayStation’s internal Partner website indicates that new PS4 games made after July 13th are required to be PS5 compatible. It’s good to hear backward compatibility will be more than an afterthought next-gen but how will the PS5 and Series X back-compat libraries compare?

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[Eurogamer] New PS4 games must also run on PlayStation 5 from July, Sony tells devs https://bit.ly/2XbXrzO
[Xbox] Xbox Series X: The Most Powerful and Compatible Next-Gen Console with Thousands of Games at Launch https://bit.ly/3cdyS9R
[Games Radar] PS5 backwards compatibility will let you play “supported PS4 games with system update” https://bit.ly/2XfhhKE
[Playstation Blog] Unveiling New Details of PlayStation 5: Hardware Technical Specs [UPDATED] https://bit.ly/2zzCaqV
[Playstation Blog] You’re Invited: A Look at the Future of Gaming on PlayStation 5 https://bit.ly/3clmy7K
[Games Industry dot biz] Sony’s Jim Ryan: “It’s time to give fans something that can only be enjoyed on PlayStation 5” https://bit.ly/2AfUzJ7

In This Story: PS5

The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is an upcoming home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced in 2019 as the successor to the PlayStation 4, it is scheduled to launch on November 12, 2020 in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea, and on November 19, 2020 for the rest of the world.

The platform is anticipated to launch in two varieties, as a base PlayStation 5 system incorporating an Ultra HD Blu-ray compatible optical disc drive for retail game support alongside digital distribution via the PlayStation Store, and a lower-cost Digital variant lacking the disc drive while retaining digital download support.

The PlayStation 5 features a customized solid state drive designed for high-speed data streaming to enable significant improvements in graphical performance. The hardware also features a custom AMD GPU capable of ray tracing, support for 4K resolution displays and high framerates, new audio hardware for real-time 3D audio effects, and backward compatibility with most PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games.

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