There have been various rumors about Sony’s upcoming console, and the online medium has been flooded with all kinds of information.
Sony’s powerful next-gen PS5 could reportedly one-up Xbox backward compatibility and support five generations of PS games.
PS4’s lack of backward compatibility was always something that plagued Sony and led fans to complain.
On the other hand, it’s worth noting that with the PS5 Sony seems to want to go all-out.
The already confirmed console will natively play digital PS4 games and game discs as well.
It’s been reported that it could also play PS1, PS3, and PS3 game discs as well.
Tweaktown cites information from the popular PlayStation insider PSErebus who warned gamers not to sell their game discs and he strongly hinted that widespread backward compatibility is definitely in the works.
Sony plans to bring back backward compatibility
It seems that Sony is working on bringing back an ambitious backward compatibility patent to life.
“Do not dispose of, trade or sell your PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 games,” Erebus posted on Twitter.
The online publication mentioned above notes that if this came from anyone else it would not make that much sense, but considering the fact that it comes from Erebus it’s important.
https://twitter.com/PSErebus/status/1178761535918882817
The figure has been spot-in with all kinds of essential leaks made by now and they accurately predicted The Last of Us Part II’s February release date.
The person definitely has some important inside knowledge at Sony.
As it’s been revealed before, Sony is expected to unveil the PS5 in a special event in February the next year.
Confirmed specs about the PS5
The online publication invites readers to find out more info and confirmed specs.
PlayStation 5 confirmed specs and details:
- Navi GPU Zen 2 8-core,
- 16 thread CPU
- Sources: December 2020 release date
- Ultra-fast SSD (likely via PCIe 4.0)
- Support for 4K 120 Hz TVs
- Ray-tracing enabled
- 8K graphics support (probably video, not gaming)
- Plays all PS4 games
- Separate SKUs that ship on BD-XL Blu-ray discs
- New controller with extensive haptic and tactile feedback
