Sony says NO to backwards compatibility

[dBoyFresh*212]

Sonyy Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida had a sort of AMA on PlayStation France’s Twitter account, and he answered quite a few interesting questions.

Below, you can read a summary of what he mentioned:

• On PSN Name changes, Yoshida-san would like to know when the feature will be ready himself. Sony is aware that people are asking for the feature and their engineers are looking into what they can do. There will be an announcement as soon as they’ll know what will be done. As of today, they don’t even know if it can be done, but hopefully it’ll be doable.
• Sony’s engineers have been working to enable friend online notifications in the future.
• Sony’s first party and second party studios are developing over 30 games, maybe even 40 or 50 (at the end, though, he ended with “I have no idea” so the numbers are probably even more vague than they sound).
• Yoshida-san gave a clear cut answer on the fact that PS4 won’t have backwards compatibility with PS3 (literally, the answer was “no” on whether it’s going to happen or not).
• About the possibility of upgrading the specs of the PS4 even up to being able to support 4K, Yoshida-san explained that it was a purely hypotetical question, due to the fact that the PS4 is based on x86 architecture, making such an upgrade easier to implement(exactly as we mentioned when we wrote about it, unfortunately others seemed to have missed that detail).
• RIME is still in development. It’ll require a bit more patience because the developer is very small.
• When asked about when the PS5 will be released, he mentioned that PS5 does not exist. Whether that means that it’s currently not in development, we don’t know.
• According to what people tell him on Twitter, they liked PlayStation’s Paris Games Week press conference.
• Yoshida-san is excited to play Star Wars: Battlefront, No Man’s Sky and The Witness.
• There are no news to announce about PS1 and PS2 classics on PS4.
• Sony’s first party developers won’t make any JRPG in the foreseeable future (again, the answer was a clear cut “no” to whether we can expect any or not).
• Yoshida-san’s favorite Street Fighter Vcharacter is Dhalsim, that he always used at the time of Street Fighter II.

So there you have it, straight from the lion’s mouth: I have to admit that the “no” about the chance of getting a first party JRPG burns, but there are many great ones coming anyway.

 

[Ciggavelli]

That's a damn shame. I want to play the Metal Gear Collection on my ps4. I only have 4 HDMI outputs, and they're all used up (wii u, ps4, X1, and PC). I don't want to dig into my closet for my PS3 either.

 

[King Sun]

 

[Tunez]

He lying, right?

 

[King Koopa]

 

[Fatboi1]

Told y'all

 

[Rekkapryde]

Figures. Software BC aint worth it to develop. They already have PS Now. They definitely not putting in ps3 chips in PS4s.

Keep your triples

 

[Dwolf]

Should've kept your PS3

 

[The_Sheff]

WTF is so hard about friend sign-on notifications? When these systems were being announced years ago thats some shyt i didnt even think we had to worry about.

 

[head shots101]

Should've kept your PS3

shyt crapped out on me....had it for 8 years....not mad tho I'm not the type of dude who plays the same games I beat over and over....shyt is like reading the same novel over and over

 

[Cladyclad]

It's no point in BC. That is for the hardcore of hardcore. I'm not trying to play Fallout 3 for the 3rd time when 4 is out

 

[dBoyFresh*212]

It's no point in BC. That is for the hardcore of hardcore. I'm not trying to play Fallout 3 for the 3rd time when 4 is out

I wouldnt use it more than a couple times. I have my ps3 still and never use it. But it makes you wonder wtf their doing at sony we get system updates twice a year I believe they are putting everything they got into psvr

 

[Chris Cool]

backwards compatible ps3 in bedroom, ps4 in living room. i ain't tripping.

 

[5star]

WTF is so hard about friend sign-on notifications? When the Ps4 was being announced years ago thats some shyt i didnt even think we had to worry about.

I keep telling people you gotta appreciate the little things. You don't miss them till you follow people and get caught up.

 

[Colbert.]

That's a damn shame. I want to play the Metal Gear Collection on my ps4. I only have 4 HDMI outputs, and they're all used up (wii u, ps4, X1, and PC). I don't want to dig into my closet for my PS3 either.

Get it on 360 you know they gonna have it as a title for xb1 eventually