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- PS5 will not be backward compatible with PS3, PS2, or PS1 games, according to a new support document on Ubisoft's website.
- Sony has yet to officially confirm or deny that PS3, PS2, or PS1 games will be playable on PS5, but this is the most convincing evidence yet that they won't be.
- Sony says that "the overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5," but it's unclear how many will be playable on PS5 at launch.
Sony has spent the past seven years crushing Microsoft in the video game market. Not only has the PS4 outsold the Xbox One throughout the generation, but Sony's selection of first-party exclusives trounced Microsoft's at every turn. With all of that in mind, the PS5 outselling the Xbox Series X might seem like a foregone conclusion, but Microsoft does have one trump card Sony doesn't seem to be able to match: Backward compatibility.
All year, Microsoft has been hyping up the fact that thousands of games will be playable on the Xbox Series X from day one, stretching all the way back to the original Xbox era. Meanwhile, Sony hasn't been nearly as forthright about its plans for classic games being playable on PS5, but according to a newly added support page on Ubisoft's website about transitioning to next-gen consoles, PS3, PS2, and PS1 backward compatibility is not in the cards.
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PS5 isn’t backward compatible with PS3, PS2, or PS1, says Ubisoft originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 14:39:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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