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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 12 September 2016

Hopefully, if not, I would be disappointed



                  

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JRPGfan on 12 September 2016

If they stick with x86 and AMD chips, yes.



poklane on 12 September 2016

I think so yes. Personally I think that all consoles from now on (maybe excluding NX) will be fully backwards compatible. 10 years from now you can grab any PS4 disc, put it in your current-gen PlayStation and it will play the PS4Pro version of the game at 4K/60FPS, same goes for XB1Scorpio and the current-gen Xbox in 10 years. That's what I think will happen. Microsoft really seems focused on Backwards Compatibility for all their consoles from now on, and Sony will be forced to do the same.



Normchacho on 12 September 2016
malistix1985 said:
Normchacho said:
I don't think there's much of any doubt that the PS5 will be backwards compatible.

Actually, I wonder if it could be totally backwards compatible. Like, with every Playstation home console. It should be strong enough to just brute force the PS1-PS3. I don't know if they'd actually do it...but it would be great.

I doubt theyll do it, since they sell those games on PSN, and the ps2 games in PSN are upscaled (better) versions, they just want to gain that money from the old gens, but you are right from PS5 and onwards, we won't have to deal with that again.

There is a chance tough one of the future consoles might not have an optical drive anymore, probly not the ps5 but its always been a sollid theory that whatever happens on PC will eventually happen on consoles and all-digital has been a reality on PC for some time.

But I think thats the only chance for incompatibility I can think of.

I've had another thought.

My laptop doesn't have a disc drive. So, I went out and bought one that plugs in via USB. I can't think of any reason a driveless console couldn't do the same.



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Oneeee-Chan!!! on 12 September 2016

I want to add PSP and Vita.



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Chazore on 12 September 2016

Should totally be thanks to the switch to x86. If not then it would set a bad image for them, and well you wouldn't be able to play all the games from the past gen iterations across a single system.



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Normchacho on 12 September 2016
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
I want to add PSP and Vita.

I want to agree. But a 480 x 272 PSP game on a 4K TV would be nearly unplayable.



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AsGryffynn on 12 September 2016
malistix1985 said:
If it uses the X86 architecture, and this is like 99% sure, it should be backwards and forwards compatible, games should run better on the new hardware (or at least more stable and load faster) automatically because BC is not Emulated, like in many other cases in the past.

This, and I'll be expecting it. Not for me, but there are other gamers out there and they deserve this. 



AsGryffynn on 12 September 2016
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
I want to add PSP and Vita.

And their disastrous library? Please... 



Oneeee-Chan!!! on 12 September 2016
Normchacho said:
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
I want to add PSP and Vita.

I want to agree. But a 480 x 272 PSP game on a 4K TV would be nearly unplayable.

It cannot be helped. Fate of all classics games.