The CEO of Ubisoft refers to the backward compatibility of the PlayStation 5

During a recent call for results, the CEO of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, may have left a big cat out of the bag. During the call, Guillemot said that the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will run almost all previous catalogs of previous consoles. This is good news for players, especially in the context of a patent filed by Sony last year.

While Sony said that the Playstation 5 would be backwards with the PlayStation 4 titles, Guillemot implies that the support will go back even further.

RetroCompatibility is a hot topic as the launch of a new hardware, Sony and Microsoft seem to have put in place plans to support old games on their new console offers. The exact manner whose new consoles will manage the backward compatibility is not currently known because the details of a patent deposit confirm nothing. Patents are deposited all the time when a business discovers a new method or technique to do something; This does not mean that the method itself is practical.

The critical detail is the fact that the two companies seem to be aware that consumers want to see descending compatibility as a functionality. To be able to migrate to a new material without having to leave all your games is an interesting perspective when you decide which console buy. It's a great incentive to stay in the game ecosystem that you already live, rather than going to a new one.

We would also be ready to bet that the last years of remasteners and remakes finally start to exhaust the people who have enough to be offered the same titles with a little varnish every few years.

Although upward compatibility can first seem like a bad thing for publishers, having a long life for products is never a bad thing. [RetroCompatibility] will help former generations continue to be large consoles on the market for the coming years, said Guillemot.

The potential disadvantage for consumers is that reduced prices during sales are not as attractive as today because the longer life of the games will increase the long-term value of products.