And the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?"
"That, and I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 games. "When we’ve dabbled with backward compatibility, I can say it is one of those features that is much requested, but not actually used much," he said in a Time Magazine interview from 2017. PlayStation's Jim Ryan has also been fairly negative towards PlayStation's retro games in the past. In other words, Sony deemed the PS4 as the most important console to support when it came to backward compatibility. "In the midst of that, the PS4 already has 100 million players We thought they ought to want to play PS4 titles on the PS5 as well indeed, so we included compatibility with the PS4." "We keep in mind the engineering specialized for the PS5, as we produced the device," a Siliconera translation reads. Sony confirmed via an article published by Famitsu on September 17 that backward compatibility was a consideration when designing the console. Is PS5 backward compatible with PS4, PS3, PS2, and PS1? Here's everything you need to know about the PS5's backward compatibility. While the PlayStation 4 did not feature any sort of PlayStation 3 backward compatibility, Sony is taking a different approach with the PS5 that may relieve many long-time Sony fans. While the PlayStation 5 has a solid slate of launch games like Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Demon's Souls, backward compatibility is also a very important factor for many players.