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Conina said:
DonFerrari said:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/20/21188585/sony-ps5-backwards-compatibility-ps4-games-support-majority-plus-titles

We believe that the overwhelming majority of the 4,000+ PS4 titles will be playable on PS5.”

Believing something is no guarantee, especially if two months later they only "strongly recommend" developers to add PS5 compatibility to their PS4 games:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-05-29-new-ps4-games-must-be-playstation-5-compatible-from-july-sony-tells-devs

“We’re currently evaluating games on a title-by-title basis to spot any issues that need adjustment from the original software developers.

So Sony only tests the games, sends the report to the game developers and hopes, that the game developers fix the issues on time... preferably with enhancements.

On the other hand, Microsoft seems to be much more involved into their BC process: instead of fixing games on title-by-title basis they are tweaking the groundwork for all BC games to lift the burden from the developers in many cases. Some enhancements are also already provided by that foundation. And (according to the statements of Microsoft), that way seems to work so that already over 1000 legacy Xbox games "were tested positive".

The PS5 have the PS4 logic into the silicon, it was made to make basically all games work fine already. And no amount of hour test can ensure anything. We have games that alone had as much hours in QA as the whole MS put to all games in BC but still have bugs.

I can agree that XSX BC seems more complete and probably more tested, but you are trying to force on the PS5 not working fine. You got the source only to find a way to dismiss it.

MS at the same day Sony made the clarification put an announcement that all games would work and them rectified it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."