During yesterday?s deluge of PlayStation 5-related information, one topic conspicuously went without mention?Backwards compatibility. To be fair, this may or may not have been intentional, considering much of the news roll out addressed rumors and provided the public with fresh information. Yet, there?s probably another reason behind Sony?s continued silence about backwards compatibility. Apparently, the company has yet to figure out just how the feature is going to function within the PS5?s overall framework.
President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan admitted as much in an interview with Japanese publication, Famitsu. In a Twitter post, news writer @bk2128 translated an excerpt from Ryan?s Famitsu interview, wherein the Sony boss briefly spoke on backwards compatibility. See the tweet linked below:
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