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Sony is bringing back Remote Play for the PS5, giving PS5 owners the ability to use the feature to stream games from a PS4.

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Any digital PS4 games that you own can simply be downloaded from your “Games home” on the PS5. (You’ll need to insert a particular disc every time you want to play the game in question.) Disc-based PS4 games can’t be played on the discless PS5 Digital Edition, since Sony doesn’t tie ownership of them to PlayStation Network accounts. If you own physical PS4 games and a standard PS5, you’ll be able to pop those discs directly into the next-gen console and get going. Sucker Punch announced on Twitter that it will allow Ghost of Tsushima players to transfer PS4 saves and pick up where they left off. However, Nishino noted in the FAQ that “the ability to transfer game saves between a PS4 version and a PS5 version of the same game is a developer decision, and will vary title by title for cross-generational games.” For instance, Insomniac Games is supporting PS4-to-PS5 save file transfers for Spider-Man: Miles Morales, but not for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. A PS4 controller with the DualShock 4 Back Button Attachment.

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And PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to sync PS4 saves via the service’s cloud storage. In addition, you can move digital games, game data, and save files from a PS4 to a PS5 via LAN cables or Wi-Fi.

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That includes existing PS4-formatted USB drives - you’ll be able to plug them straight into the PS5 and play any PS4 games sitting on them, just like with a USB drive of Xbox One games on the Xbox Series X or Series S. PS4 games will be playable on the PS5 directly from an external USB drive. On its support site, Sony cautions that “some PS4 games may exhibit errors or unexpected behavior when played on PS5 consoles,” and advises that you “try to boot and play your PS4 games on your PS5 console to see if you are happy with the play experience” before, say, buying any downloadable content for those games. Ghost of Tsushima developer Sucker Punch Productions announced on Twitter that Game Boost will provide faster loading speeds and “an extra option to allow frame rates up to. Note that all of that applies to “select PS4 titles” - the only backward-compatible games Sony specified in the article were The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima - but all PS4 games will “take advantage of” the PS5’s “new features,” according to Nishino. “Some titles with unlocked frame rates or dynamic resolution up to 4K may see higher fidelity” with Game Boost, and/or “increased loading speeds.” The PlayStation 5 has a feature called Game Boost, which will deliver “improved or more stable frame rates,” said Hideaki Nishino, PlayStation senior vice president of platform planning and management, in the PlayStation Blog post. Sony’s support page also explains how backward compatibility will work on PS5, along with some caveats and limitations. The Xbox Series X is the Xbox 360 of my dreams This is in stark contrast to Microsoft, which has made backward compatibility a key pillar of the Xbox Series X and Series S experience. It’s worth noting that Sony still hasn’t demonstrated any PS4 games running on PS5, so we don’t know what kind of performance to expect. (In case you’re wondering about P.T., it is not playable on PS5.)

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Here’s the full lineup of games, which Sony says will be labeled as “Playable on: PS4 only” in the PlayStation Store: And luckily, none of them are heavy hitters, although there’s no word on whether this list will change over time. Thankfully, the current list on the PlayStation support site is tiny, with just nine titles designated as incompatible. Of course, that means that some PS4 games won’t work with the PS5. The good news is that Sony’s testing has fulfilled the company’s previous statements: “When the PlayStation 5 launches this November, more than 99 percent of the 4000+ games available on PS4 will be playable on PS5,” Sony said in a PlayStation Blog post published Friday afternoon. With just over a month to go until the debut of the PlayStation 5, we finally have an idea of how PlayStation 4 backward compatibility will work on the next-generation console.

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