YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PLAY PLAYSTATION 5 GAMES ON YOUR PLAYSTATION 4

PLUS: SONY POSTPONED THE PLAYSTATION 5 EVENT SCHEDULED THIS WEEK

YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PLAY PLAYSTATION 5 GAMES ON YOUR PLAYYSTATION 4 — Sony

While Microsoft has revealed that most Xbox Series X video games will be made playable on existing Xbox One consoles for at least the first two years of the Series X’s launch, Sony released that it would be taking a different approach, instead Sony interactive Entertainment is showing no intention to make PlayStation 5 games compatible for its current PlayStation generation.

In a session with developers via GamesIndustry.biz, Jim Ryan, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO and president said this about the PlayStation 5: “We have always said that we believe in generations. We believe that when you go to all the trouble of creating a next-gen console, that it should include features and benefits that the previous generation does not include.” He further explained: “In our view, people should make games that can make the most of those features…whether it’s the DualSense controller, whether it’s the 3D audio, whether it’s the multiple ways that the SSD can be used… we are thinking that it is time to give the PlayStation community something new, something different, that can really only be enjoyed on PS5.”

However, Ryan also reassured those players that currently have the PlayStation 4 consoles that Sony won’t be leave them behind after the new generation releases. “We have always felt that we had a responsibility to serve that [PS4] community for several years after the launch of PS5,” says Ryan. “The numbers are quite straightforward. If you say in broad brush figures that we have a community of 100 million PS4 owners right now, and in the first couple of years… I don’t know, somewhere between 15 and 25 million might migrate to PS5, that still leaves a huge number of people with PS4s. And that community is demonstrating an amazing stickiness, and willingness to stay engaged that, I think, the events of the past few months have just reinforced what we knew already.”

Sony planned to reveal the new deets about some of the games that would be coming to its next-generation PS5 console in an hour-long PlayStation 5 event this Thursday, but gamer fans will now have to wait a bit longer to “allow more important voices to be heard” as widespread protests against police violence and systemic racism are taking place right now in the US, sparked by the recent police-involved deaths of African-Americans.

Sony made an official announcement about the PlayStation 5 event via PlayStation’s Twitter page.