Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, says that both Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will support the vast majority of the old systems catalog.
While we more or less know how the backward compatibility on Xbox Series X will work, it remains to be known what it will be like in the case of PlayStation 5, which this time it is confirmed that it will have this function that PS4 has dispensed with. At the moment, we know that all the games that are now backward compatible on Xbox One will also be in the next Microsoft console, but according to the opinion of Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, both consoles will go one step further, being backwards compatible with absolutely The entire catalog of previous consoles.
"These consoles will be able with almost the entire previous catalog of the previous consoles," says Guillemot. "It will be something new in the industry. It will help older generations continue to be considered big consoles in the market for the next few years to come." Namely: we could enjoy PSX, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games on the new PlayStation 5, while absolutely all Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One games would be compatible with Xbox Series X, unlike today, in the that there is a good handful of them.
A function of the new consoles yet to be defined
As we said before, there is much more information about the intentions in this regard by Microsoft than Sony. The intention of the American company, in fact, has long been making the entire Xbox and Xbox 360 catalog backward compatible, while Sony's intentions remain a total unknown, especially considering that it already offers much of the most important catalog of PlayStation 3 on your PlayStation Now service.
At the moment, we are still waiting for movements from Sony, which goes a few steps behind when announcing features of PlayStation 5, while we already know even the final design of Xbox Series X. Not long ago the Japanese company opened the website of its new console, which indicates that its presentation in society is, at last, imminent.
