It’ll be some time before we see third-parties push the PlayStation 5 to its limits, according to Frogwares’ Sergey Oganesyan. Speaking with WCCFTech, the developer behind The Sinking City suggested that most studios will be prioritising cross-gen releases for “some time”, meaning games will release on both the PS4 and PS5.
“I just don’t think developers can momentarily drop their support of an enormous fanbase that has grown during the current-gen life cycle unless they have the financial incentive of the console makers to make up for the potential missed out sales,” he explained.
Fortunately, he believes there’s still plenty for early adopters to anticipate: “We should all definitely look forward to things like better textures, better framerate, better lighting, better loading time, bigger maps, more detailed environments, etc. Which is a lot and the improvements will be more than noticeable.”
It’s worth mentioning that Sony will be creating exclusives for its new hardware, too, with a Demon’s Souls Remake among those titles anticipated at launch. It’s here that we’ll really be able to appreciate the differences between hardware, and with a blowout rumoured for May, we may not have to wait too much longer for our first glimpse.
[source wccftech.com]
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due current situation and the cost of then new console i think its looking 2 years cross gen before they switch over to new consoles.
I’m just hoping for a Cyberpunk PS5 release at time of launch.
If 1080p & 30 fps games for ps4 will be 4k & 60 fps on ps5, I have no problems with that, as long as sony 1st party studio keeps making exclusives for ps5
In this current climate it would be wise for developers to cross-release for the near future.
We are going through some financial turmoil during the launch period, and maybe beyond, and no one knows what that will impact.
I suspect Sony will try to integrate people over to PS5, especially for their first party titles, but 3rd party developers will be testing the waters a lot more.
Japan have always had previous gen games for a couple of years so I’d expect that to continue. I still find it weird that Persona 5 got a cross gen release.
'some time '. Yes we knew that . The usual 'some time' thingy.
In other words, the sky is blue.
Seriously, cross-gen games have been a thing for years now.
It’s not quite as clear cut as bigger market equals more sales. The are already 4000 PS4 games. So some of the new releases for that format are likely to get lost in the noise. Where is those early adopters are more likely to notice a NextGen only release.
I'm still waiting for the full reveal info before I get overly excited about "faster loading times".
I'm sure it'll be great once you're in the game, but with the internal 'super SSD' storage being less than 1TB, it's only going to hold a few games; there's clearly still going to be lots of content stored on external/additional/traditional storage which is still going to take some time to copy over to the fancy new drive before you can benefit from it.
I mean, something like Battlefield 4 with all its extra content is something like 100GB. Imagine if you had to wait 4 or 5 minutes for that to copy over from a standard USB3 HDD before you could play. Maybe even longer if the PS4 USB copy times are anything to go by.
Well I think this is the case for most new gen hardware, you get a couple of exclusives for the new gen hardware and most games like FIFA and cod etc get a new game on both gen with the new gen getting improved graphics and maybe a few extra features.
@Paranoimia
Actually the way the HDD storage currently works it copies assets three times over due to the lower speed, this helps speed up the seek times.
With the caching of the SSD games will take up around a third of their current space so expect to store more games than before.
Not only that but if the speeds advertised by this SSD are accurate at 5.5Gb/s that's around 50 times faster than an HDD.
It's already been clarified by Cerny.
I'm hoping (unrealistically) that Horizon Zero Dawn 2 will be on PS4.
Give me 60 fps and adjust the resolutions around that and I be happy.
@sketchturner well it was a ps4 title before being transitioned to ps5....but that's a slippery slope for 1st party. If your owned studios arent all in on your new tech i feel like that sends a bad message
@Boucho11
Sadly it wont be.
"The answer to that question, CD Projekt Red has now made clear, is a resounding no. Senior vice president Michal Nowakowski spoke to Video Games Chronicle recently about the company's plans. In the interview, Nowakowski confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will not be available as next-gen console launch titles."
Guess it will take them some time to make a true next-gen version of the game plus they need time to make the promised dlc for current-gen on top of that.
Not surprised. The PS4 is everywhere and ridiculously popular, so it's going to take time for developers to stop making games for it. It will have its Sony-published exclusive games, of course, but you don't just drop a 100+ million player base at the start of the next generation.
@Zeke68 ah ok. That’s a shame. I guess I’ll just have to purchase it on PS4 😂
@sketchturner
I hope not. PS4 version limit PS5.
@GADG3Tx87 Maybe so, but it's still going to be an issue for a significant number of people with large libraries. And will that apply to PS4 games installed on the system, which are set up to install a certain way and may expect certain things?
Then there's the issue of recording gameplay footage with the Share/Create button. On PS4, that exclusively uses internal storage. If PS5 should record gameplay in 4K (maybe even screenshots in 8K) and not allow use of external storage, that space won't last 5 minutes.
There's still so much we need to know before we get too excited.
I just hope they will also be cross-buy and not just cross-gen
https://twitter.com/OPM_UK/status/1255144984388308999?s=19
Not too surprised haha
i'm all for cross gen for the first two years of ps5's life, but if it means base ps4 games run extremely poorly and unoptimized, then no. why bother? as we have seen the past few years, base ps4 has become more and more neglected when it comes to 3rd party releases (with regards to the quality of the port). a good test will be cybperunk — i have a feeling it will run sub 20-25fps on base ps4 and be plagued by a myriad of other performance issues due to a lack of optimization and going beyond what the console can handle.
@Paranoimia If you want to have access to a large library on PS5. You’re going to have to buy one for Sony approved a NVMe SSD and install it internally.
@Paranoimia sony confirmed that external hdd's will be compatible with ps5 for ps4 games. so long as you don't care about the loading performance improvements with the ssd, you can transfer your ps4 collection to a cheap external hdd and call it a day. at that point, you might as well continue to use your ps4, though, which will prolong your ps5's lifespan heh.
@Paranoimia
PS4 games can still be primarily installed to external HDD's. This has also been confirmed. I'd use my 8TB External for PS4 games and the internal for PS5 games.
Plenty of space.
It took a couple of years from PS3 to PS4, will be interesting to see what developers do as we may for sometime see many games that are simply optimised for PS5 as they want them to run well on PS4s for the larger user base.
Plus it's only really the top studios that will have to step up, as most indie studios may not need to make use of all the PS5s fancy whistles and bells.
To be expected. I remember playing fifa 10 on ps2
It doesn't surprise me at all. When this gen we had quite a few cross gen games last gen. Some where decent ports and others were shadow of mordor.
Well, PS4 may offer a greater amount of customers but it also ups the odds that your title will be buried.
You build a game solely for the PS5, you’ll have a greater chance people will want that pure next gen experience.
That's to be expected from third-party devs. At least the first-party output from Sony will be true next gen right off the bat.
@Paranoimia Putting your PS4 games on the PS5's SSD would not be a good idea. They wouldn't really benefit from it and you'd just be wasting valuable space. You'd only want to do that if a game gets specifically optimised for the SSD.
Sorry just noticed others have said the same.
@Paranoimia when they first started to talk about the ps5 they said you don't have to install all of the game to play, if you wanted to play single player it would only install that, saving you space but knowing how much space that may take up is another matter but still it will save you having to install a whole disc or digital copy and you get to choose what to install.
@Boucho11
Even though it releases in September I'll still buy it again for PS5
@sketchturner
I'd love to see that, hzd is one of the best games on the ps4.
Don't understand why they haven't developed sequels of alien isolation or splinter cell also.
I waited to play the last of us on ps4. Whose waiting to play the last of us 2 on ps5?
If I start seeing a trend of multiple box copies (individual PS5 and PS4 versions) to take advantage of the new hardware, but don’t see that on XBox, you can bet XBox will be where I stay for all cross-platform games.
And Song always discounts games to sub-20 after like 9-12 months, so that also means I would not touch a PS5 first party title at least for a year or two.
Generation is now only a thing to Sony and Nintendo (who are something of an exception) ... Pay through nose if you wish but I'm telling you that sticking with the old way is going to land you with an uneccessary paper weight before even a year has passed.
They're desperate to make this one final massive sale at your expense. If they're smart they'll use it to build a competitive streaming platform that matches the best we have now... More likely, Sony being Sony, they'll pour it all tugging your hype strings and delivering mediocrity dressed in shiny black plastic all over again in 3 years with a PS5 Pro...
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