What do you think the chances are Sony announces PS1/PS2/PS3 BC on Wednesday?

[Empyrean Cocytus]

Not going to happen. They'll point to old games being available on PSNOW, and that's it.

PS3 will be especially difficult since it was such a unique architecture.

 

[Voyevoda]

PSone and 2: 0.001%
PS3: 0% (except PSNow)
PSP/Vita: 😭😭😭%

 

[Favio Bolo]

lmao out of 10

 

[Apathy]

Like -8%

 

[Hydeus]

What ? 0 chance.

 

[Aerial51]

I have about 0.9% Hope.
It would honestly be lower, but i really really really wanna have BC

 

[Iron Eddie]

Sony should have a PS5 Pro that is $100 more with full BC if that's what it takes but they won't.

 

[Trey]

PSNow is their solution for backwards compatibility. The full list of day one PS4 compatibility is still unknown.

I would imagine at the showcase there will be some new announcements on both fronts, but I doubt we'll know a whole lot until very close to launch, and they'll announce the situation in a hidden blog post.

 

[DarkFlame92]

below zero

 

[Real]

Nobody cares about BC

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[Midgarian]

Nobody cares about BC

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4 years ago nobody cared about Crash Bandicoot apparently.

Now look.

 

[Elios83]

0% LOL
Sony simply doesn not believe that supporting these games will bring a commercial return to them.
PS4 BC is important to try to lock current customers into the ecosystem instead.

 

[Lord Fanny]

Slim to none

 

[Kutaragi]

Close to none.

 

[slothrop]

I disagree with all these other posters! It's clearly 100% (that they won't)

 

[Diddy Kong]

Less than 0.

 

[Zukuu]

1 and 2 are easy to do, but 3 is impossible.

I also think Sony doesn't want that. They want to push PS Now for that.

 

[Dr. Collins]

0%. And honestly I'm fine w that. It's a new gen, I don't require it to play all PS system games

 

[Lamptramp]

El Zilcho.

 

[DavidBoring]

Slimmer than a PS2 slim

 

[MrFox]

1%

 

[defaltoption]

There's a better chance they announce that now we can't play ps4 games

 

[oRuin]

I wish. But yeah. Zero.

 

[Smash Kirby]

If Sony's been holding this ace up their sleeves all this time then this Wednesday is the time for them to pull it out IMO. This has been debated to death for years and the latest web page blurb from Ubisoft brought the topic back to the forefront. So the question is, do you think Sony will announce PS1/PS2/PS3 BC on Wednesday in some way shape or form? It could be disc based, PSN download based and/or PS Now based. Do you think it'll happen and if it does what form will it take?

Or do you think this Wednesday would not be the time to talk about it, assuming such a BC program exists?

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EDIT: I would love having a console that could play all of the PlayStation collection.

 

[aisback]

0.123%

 

[Arex]

slim to none probably :(

 

[Faceless_Caesar]

That line about PS5's audio chip being similar to PS3's SPUs makes me think that someone at Sony has at least thought about it. They will eventually have to replace those PS3 based PSNow server blades with something or just drop PS3 from the service entirely.

 

[Strittles]

Zero

I'm still not even sure if all my PS4 games will run at launch.

 

[BobbeMalle]

Zero for me

 

[Third Strike]

The PS2 rereleases on the PS4's PSN store will probably be the only PS2 games that will natively plan on the PS5. Maybe they'll announce that they will add more titles to the lineup, and if we were really lucky, maybe bringing over the PS1 Classics from the PS3/PSP/PSV to the PS5, but that's highly unlikely.

 

[MrRob]

Isn't it already handled through PSNow? I expect that to continue and hopefully strengthen. The way Nintendo switch handles it is perfect for me

 

[Spork4000]

-60%

 

[Muitnorts]

Sadly very low. PS Now isn't a good enough excuse not to do it.

 

[cyrribrae]

I'm missing a poll :( I like one-sided polls, makes me feel like I have a chance of getting it right. But yea, they've pretty clearly messaged that it's not coming - and it's never seemed like a priority.

PS Vita BC, though...

 

[Windu]

There is a reason why Microsoft is marketing their console as being the "most compatible" or whatever.

 

[LongDongJunon]

You already know the answer op

 

[8bit]

NaN

 

[Dragonyeuw]

I'm rolling with 0.00000000000000.......0%

 

[ty_hot]

They already said that they offer BC through PS Now, that won't change. Maybe they will add PS1 games there as well...

 

[Lemony1984]

0%

 

[Musouka]

Same chance of them stealth dropping the PS5 Pro with 16TF of sweet crunchy graphics.

 

[Encephalon]

*sobs*

 

[Protome]

As much chance as the PS5 price matching the XSS lol

 

[erlim]

It's just as likely PS5 will have BC with Sega-CD and play HD-DVDs and pull double duty as an automated roomba style vacuum.

 

[Joltik]

The thread really ended with the first response.

 

[Daggoth]

One hundred perecnt certain it's not happening

 

[RF Switch]

If that were true this thread wouldn't exist.

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I thought that kind of sarcasm in here would be funny. I will clarify that yes it's incredibly embarrassing that both Sony and Nintendo are so horrible about keeping their past games alive while Microsoft is giving free 4k updates to OG Xbox games that will boot on a new console 20 years later. I sadly think there is 0 chance Sony will do it this gen especially when everyone can't stop talking about how excited they are for the demon souls remake coming to PS5. I am not saying a remake shouldn't be happening, but to me Sony is thinking can't give them a better version of the old when we want them to buy the new. That's just my hot take on the situation

 

[Fredrik]

The depressing talk here makes me think I should buy the digital edition. I've essentially been all digital all generation but somehow I assumed PS5 would get legacy BC and then I would need the disc drive. If it won't have BC then I'll rather get the DE since it looks better.

 

[chandoog]

PS1 and PS2: Likely
PS3: Miracle

 

[Vincent Grayson]

I don't know if they will or not, but it sure feels silly knowing that they could *easily* support us using the PSX/PS2 titles we've purchased on PSN over the years, and they currently don't.