Your PS4 can play PS5 games remotely

Your PS4 will still be useful when the PlayStation 5 arrives – if only for playing games on your new console. Eurogamer Sony reports that Sony is automatically rolling out a PS5 Remote Play app to PS4 owners. You’ll have to enable remote play in the PS5’s settings to use it, but it’s otherwise an easy way to start the new system on a remote TV instead of relying on your phone or PC. That is, as long as the games you want to run are viable through PS4 Remote Play.

Sony was quick to warn that the PS4’s DualShock 4 controller will not work with native PS5 games, and early adopters have reported that the PS5’s DualSense does not work natively with the PS4. In other words, you might just be using the PS5 Remote Play app to stream PS4 games that you don’t already have on the machine you’re using. You might get away with games that rely on specialty peripherals like steering wheels and arcade sticks (which will work with PS5 games), but this app won’t be as convenient as you would like.