PS5 may have backward compatibility

Although Sony has offered a way to play older titles on their PlayStation 4 platform, fans of older games still had to pay for them again, even though they already own them. The Xbox One backward compatibility feature has allowed Xbox fans to simply put their old drive and download an update – for free – before enjoying another favorite adventure again. Until now, it's like that, but it seems like the PlayStation 5 takes a page from the Xbox's book.

Sony has just filed a patent strongly suggesting that backward compatibility could be a major goal for the team. According to the patent below, this could apply to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation games on the next generation:

"Each asset, such as a texture requested by existing software, such as a game software, is associated with a unique identifier.This unique identifier can be rendered by imposing a hash on the asset. , then the asset stored with its identifier in a data structure An artist reshapes the textures to present them on a screen at a higher resolution than that envisaged in the original software and stores them in the data structure with their The original software is then read on a higher resolution screen with active (such as texture calls) being intercepted, identified, and the data structure entered to extract the remastered asset having a corresponding identifier. remastered asset is then inserted on the fly in the presentation of the game. "

With more than 500 titles offered by Microsoft as part of their backward compatibility program, the time has come for the Sony team to also look into this feature, especially with regard to the number of exclusives incredible things she has.

Whenever the next generation is mentioned, the most common theme in the comment sections is "And my games?" The Xbox has already indicated that it wants to make the game more accessible than ever and Sony has proven that it is also considering changing its business model. We hope this means that backward compatibility will be a central element for the next generation, especially with many upcoming games that overlap this generational line.

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H / T Gearnuke