PS4 exclusives should get a 4K 60 with high resolution assets update next gen Update: Confirmed

[DonFerrari]

twintail said:

DonFerrari said:

Sony certainly knows what is possible and what can be done, and it exactly seems like Sony isn't interested in doing it.

Based on what exactly? The PS4 not having BC with PS3? Because 1 remaster they released sold incredibly well?

Look, maybe PS5 doesn't have BC with PS4, but I am sorry: I think it s pretty short sighted to not see the larger picture in play here. There is far too much money to be lost from not offering BC next gen then there is to not offering remasters. One only needs to look at the Playstation divisions financials for the last quarters to realise how a huge percentage of their profits is network based. And that profit comes off maintaining their online userbase. Making a hard cut with PS5 is essentially giving consumers the option of jumping to the next Xbox, cause it wouldn't really matter where they go then. Sony exclusives are not the primary driving force of most PS4 sales: it's multiplatform games and Sony will want to ensure ppl keep playing these games from PS4 to PS5.

Unless you can provide some concrete info that remasters have been allowing Sony to bathe in money, then you yourself are just being anecdotal. More evidence points towards PS4 PSN continuing into PS5 than not (beyond what I have been written here).

and no, contrary to your unsubstantiated opinion to someone else that ppl saying PS5 will have BC are ppl who want BC, I honestly don't care if there is BC since I have barely ever used the function on any device I have owned.

Sony games aren't heavy on mp much less gaas so their online may not benefit from bc.

And I have no problem accepting there is a good chance of BC or the goodwill they could get or even how much easier than ps3 bc it would be. But giving it as certain based on nothing is silly.

We have had Sony heads saying how BC was overtalked and underused as a reason they didn't put it on PS4 nor would add later. We had PS3 dropping BC without much issue.

Sony certainly could make PS5 BC capable and locking it with some service of PS+ or offering to easy port/crossgen to devs so they can either have cross sales as we had at the begining of this gen and even keeping username/save so people could migrate.

There is several options they could take that would benefit their partners more than just put free BC and no double dips.

Sony wasn't the only making remaster/remakes (and they selling a lot), they had a good bunch of 3rd parties doing the same.