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humminbird said:
as someone who didn't have Xbox one gamepass is the better offering for me personally since i played all the games on this one when they came out
these are just migration marketing techniques for different consumers
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That's directed at the PS stans that have been trashing Gamepass, backwards compatibility and game streaming for years now
 
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winb83 said:
I have a ton of old games on disc because they weren’t available digitally at the time they first came out. Are you saying I can put those disc in my PS5 and play them if they’re now available digitally? Doesn’t sound like that’s the case. Sounds like if you own a digital game you can play it on PS5 without rebuying it or subbing.
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I'm sure your previous post implied you'd have to pay to play any old games whether you purchased it digitally or physically. I don't believe PS1/PS2 discs are even compatible with the PS5 drive.
 
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as for the downloadable stuff, hell of a list. i will try this out.

i will try streaming that castlevania game to see if this is really viable. im still doubtful on performance but i hope it's good.
 
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Fatboi1 said:
I'm sure your previous post implied you'd have to pay to play any old games whether you purchased it digitally or physically. I don't believe PS1/PS2 discs are even compatible with the PS5 drive.
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Not really. CDs are a no go but I have plenty of games on DVD the PS5 can at least recognize that I still won’t be able to play even though the capacity to recognize them is there even after they’re made available on the new service. Meanwhile on Xbox you can stick any old game in the system and as long as the game is backwards compatible you don’t need a game pass subscription to play it.

How about letting me send in my physical games to trade them for a digital license since they didn’t have the foresight to allow the PS5 to read CDs? Probably not. It’s a problem they created and their solution it for customers to just pay more.
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Jim Ryan is the reason I can't put my old classic games I still own into a PS5 and play them but come June I'll be able to pay them a monthly or annual fee at the highest tier to play those same games on their PlayStation+ service on the system. Perhaps you don't care but eventually a company with an attitude like that will run afoul of your preferences. Physical BC matters because some games will never be available on digital due to rights issues.
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winb83 said:
Not really. CDs are a no go but I have plenty of games on DVD the PS5 can at least recognize that I still won’t be able to play even though the capacity to recognize them is there even after they’re made available on the new service. Meanwhile on Xbox you can stick any old game in the system and as long as the game is backwards compatible you don’t need a game pass subscription to play it.

How about letting me send in my physical games to trade them for a digital license since they didn’t have the foresight to allow the PS5 to read CDs? Probably not. It’s a problem they created and their solution it for customers to just pay more.
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Well technically, if you amassed a huge library of digital PS1/PSP games from the PS3 era, they will too be available to download and play free of charge regardless of sub status. That's not disc BC but going from what people initially assumed, we'd be having to pay a sub JUST to play an old game which is what I'm getting at.



Just play old games on Xbox since that's what players over there seem to be doing most of the time anyway.
 
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