I FIGURED it out. PS5!!!

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Normchacho said:

No way. One of the biggest benefits to consoles is that developers can make games to a specific set of hardware specs. First Party devs will never be able to push the new hardware if they always have to scale it back to work on the old console.

I do, however, think that starting with the PS4 all PS games will be backwards compatible. Since they've moved to an X86 setup.

 

Edit: Not to mention that all they'd be doing by extending the life of the PS4 is giving people less reason to buy the PS5.

PC games are always made with a min-recommended-max spec range. As long as PS4 and PS5 are as similar as low and high end gaming PCs I don't see co-development for PS4 and PS5 as being a problem for getting the most out of PS5.

What might be also possible with PS Now is that if you buy a PS5 game for PS4, then you could play the PS5 quality game on PS4 through PSNow. If streaming is to become more of the norm for games, then a start towards that transitio is making it possible to play the better quality game through PS Now.