If you want to play those dusty old original PlayStation, PS2 or PS3 discs, you're out of luck.

You might want to hold onto your PS3 to play games from its library. So far, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Sackboy: A Big Adventure are confirmed to have save transfers if you upgrade to the PS5 versions. It's highly unlikely that any developer will decide not to give you the power to transfer. However, it warned that the ability to transfer game saves between a PS4 version and a PS5 version of the same game is down to the developer, and it'll vary with cross-gen games. You'll have to make sure the latest save is backed up to the cloud from your PS4 and manually download it on your PS5 - hopefully a future update will make the PS5 automatically detect and download cloud saves once a game is installed. The cloud storage method is the simplest approach, but it's a little fiddly. 'And if you are a PS Plus member, you can also sync PS4 game saves on PS5 through cloud storage.' If you've already stored PS4 games and game data in the external USB storage device connected to your PS4, you can bring them over to PS5 with that external USB storage device,' the company said in an Oct.

'You can transfer digital games, game data, and game saves from a PS4 console to a PS5 console using LAN cables, or by connecting wirelessly (Wi-Fi). It is still, of course, likely that you’ll be able to play some older PlayStation games on the PS5 one way or the other, but it feels like there is more that Sony can accomplish in that area.It's possible to continue your PS4 adventures on the new console, and Sony has confirmed a few methods of transferring your saves.

So while this really all amounts to “about what we expected” it does admittedly remain somewhat disheartening that Sony isn’t quite on Microsoft’s level in terms of their backward compatibility program (at least based on what we know of it so far). While you may still be able to play older PlayStation games on your PS5, it will likely only be through PlayStation Now, separate PlayStation Store releases, or the aforementioned cloud gaming service that we’re still waiting for Sony to formally unveil. Assuming this information from Ubisoft is accurate (which seems likely) then it really only confirms what we’ve previously suspected which is that the PS5 will not directly support older PlayStation titles in the same ways that the Xbox Series X will support older Xbox games. That’s really the thing to keep in mind here. While we’ve seen a patent that suggests Sony is looking into using cloud gaming technology to support older PlayStation titles, that information is hardly official and could easily be interpreted to apply to Sony’s existing digital outlets as well as their planned cloud gaming service.

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