Sony PlayStation 5 did not support games for the PS3 and older Sony consoles

Don't worry about PS4 games

Well, after yesterday's announcement by Sony, there are practically no questions left for the PlayStation 5. And today we got an answer to one of the few open ones - backward compatibility.

Jim Ryan confirmed that 'The PlayStation 5 will not be compatible with PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 1 titles'

Recall that Sony itself announced that the PS5 will definitely be able to run about a hundred of the best PS4 games and almost certainly many other projects for the already past generation of the PlayStation.

Now we can confidently say that the vast majority of PS4 games will work on PS5. This was stated in an interview with the CEO of PlayStation by the resource Famitsu. More specifically, Sony has already tested thousands of PS4 games on PS5 and 99% of them worked great.

In addition, the resource journalist asked Jim Ryan about compatibility with older generations of consoles. Previously, there were rumors that the PS5 may still receive game support for all generations of PlayStation 5.

Unfortunately, you can forget about it. Ryan said that by focusing on new technology for the PlayStation 5, the engineers were unable to implement backward compatibility with older generations of consoles.

Source: WCCFTech, Famitsu, Washington Post

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