Starting in July, new PlayStation 4 games will have to be compatible with PS5

At Sony they would be “recommending” developers to take advantage of that compatibility.

The new PlayStation 4 video games that are planned to be released from the month of July should also be compatible with PS5 , or at least, it is a “recommendation” that Sony has extended to creatives working on its gaming platform, as it has been able Know Eurogamer , which has internal documentation from the Japanese company.

Always taking into account this information not confirmed by PlayStation, the mention refers to the essential certification process to obtain publication permission on the console. All games that request certification from July 13 , must also be compatible with PlayStation 5, which Sony clarifies, means that they must have intact all the options seen in the original video game.

Although this measure is not mandatory for games that have obtained certification before the date indicated, PlayStation “strongly recommend” that these titles also add compatibility with PS5. To better exemplify this move, a long-awaited game like Ghost of Tsushima opens in July, but will have passed certification by the target date. This means that it would not be obliged to be compatible with PS5, although being as it is one of the great PlayStation exclusives, it stands to reason that it will be part of the catalog of the future console of the Japanese company.

To facilitate the work of creatives, Sony already added an option last April that allows developers to check in their development kits if a game works well on PlayStation 5. Discarding compatibility with platforms prior to PS4, weeks ago already It was announced that PlayStation 5 would be backward compatible with most of the 4,000 PS4 games , although not all would be available from the start.

Source: Eurogamer, Reddit

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