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Digital Foundry | PlayStation 5 Backwards Compatibility Tested - And It's Fantastic!

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One of the biggest next generation mysteries is finally solved. Join Rich Leadbetter and John Linneman for a deep dive into PlayStation 5 backwards compatibility - a detailed look at some of the most challenging PS4 and Pro titles and how they run on PS5. Oh... and Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima running at 60fps? It's happening and it's in here.
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Did my own testing - hopefully it's deemed worthy to compete in here!
 
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So games that have a 30fps cap, continue to run at 30fps. So Bloodborne is still a 30fps game.
 
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I never played days gone, seems like a great time to try it next week, especially with the ps plus collection
 
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PlayStation 5 backwards compatibility tested - and it's fantastic

PS5 play your PS4 games better than ever before. Digital Foundry is impressed by one of PS5's most important and - up to now - most mysterious features.
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So, after some confusing messaging from Sony back in the day, followed by months of radio silence, the outlook is good. PlayStation 5 delivers comparable backwards compatibility with last-gen titles to Microsoft's equivalent feature. Sony's solution lacks some of the finesse and the sky-high resolutions of Series X playing One X versions, but clearly, it has advantages of its own. Before the arrival of Xbox One X in 2017, many Xbox games topped out at 900p vs 1080p PS4 equivalents. Series X can't break that 900p limit, but 1080p is what you'll get on PlayStation 5. PS4 Pro games may well have to contend with lower resolutions than One X equivalents, but in unlocked frame-rate scenarios, the boost to performance will be higher.

Really though, the key message to take from this piece is that PS4 users looking to upgrade to PS5 can relax. Your games will work - and then some.
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Lordy does that DS3 footage make me weep for Bloodborne.
 
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Do games need patches for this or are these unlocked framerate games that naturally get a boost with the more powerful hardware.
 
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When they called it Fantastic! like that I was half expecting secret 60fps patches for TLOU2 and Bloodborne or something lol. But it's nice that it has parity with XSX.
 
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For like a month I've been not playing games much. I have to jump back into Ghost of Tsushima so I felt like I just wanted to wait.
 
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Rich wonders why Sony was being so quiet about BC, and I think it just comes down to their generation talk. They wanted all the marketing focus to be on PS5 games rather than any enhancements to PS4 games.
 
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