What are you going to do with all your PlayStation 4 games when the PlayStation 5 launches in 2020? Play them, apparently!
As you might expect, the console is said to be more powerful than the PlayStation 4. And Sony says it won't arrive this year — after four years of research and development, Sony has at least another year before it's ready to launch the next PlayStation. Beyond that, there are still a ton of unknowns.
But one huge question was answered that over 90 million PlayStation 4 owners will surely appreciate: Yes, the PlayStation 5 will run PlayStation 4 games.according to Wired's Peter RubinBoth Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One are built using what is known as"x86" system architecture — a genericized way of building computers that makes it much easier for software to function on successive devices.
In short: Because of the way Sony built the PlayStation 4, it's much easier to enable the PlayStation 5 to run PS4 games. And that's a huge benefit for the 90 million-plus PlayStation 4 owners out there who own PS4 games. Whether this applies solely to disc-based games is the big remaining question: Will your entire PlayStation Network digital library carry forward to Sony's next PlayStation?
That remains to be seen — we asked Sony and have yet to hear back — but general confirmation of backwards compatibility is a hugely positive step in the right direction.
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