A day ago, Ubisoft published an article announcing that a number of its Assassin?s Creed games will not be backwards compatible on the PlayStation 5 for undisclosed reasons. It has now pulled the article due to ?inaccuracies.?
?Most of our back catalogue of games will have backward compatibility between the next and current generation of consoles, with a few exceptions,? Ubisoft wrote in the now-deleted article. The publisher said that the following games will not be playable on the PS5 (but didn?t say why):

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