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Awful, locked native back compat behind the most expensive tier. no support of previously purchased classics. A smack in the face of loyal fans who will be forced to emulate on PC (or pay an extortionate tax to play their paltry catalog) straight out of nintendos idiotic playbook. DOA

Want to play old games easily emulated on potato laptops? Give us 100 quid a year. Want to play the games you already own? GTFO!!!... I am actually shocked how bad sonys treatment of back compat is compared to xbox. I will eat my words if they allow me to access my ps1+ps2+psp classics library, but this sounds like another cynical 'lets re-sell everything' money hungry approach, that sucks, DOA for me

What they really need to do is give us the proper native backwards compatibility we deserve. Full ps1, ps2, psp, ps vita AND ps3 games playable, with all your old digital and disc purchases just working and available to everyone (not locked behind a pay wall) Trust me; i'm not holding my breath...

Strange, Rocket league / pubg went F2P and sony dropped the PS+ requirement, Destiny 2 went F2P and sony did not drop the requirement. I imagine this F2P status is the reason

I'm just hoping for the ability to play my digital collection of ps1 and ps2 classics and stream my ps3 purchases on ps4/ps5. But unfortunately I suspect it'll be more like nintendos approach; small catalogue of easily emulated usual suspects for which you will have to pay a premium

Hope these guys can work with Firesprite on a brand new Wipeout! Maybe the ps5 could reach 4k - 120fps?

People are getting really fed up of paying for online access when their friends on PC are getting a free pass, pay walls just go against the cross-platform future of multiplayer gaming. sony and microsoft see this. It's a very expensive killer ace up phil spencers sleeve and damocles sword for sony! Will he pull it? How will sony respond?. I think we don't have long to find out

Without a shadow of doubt the worst aspect of modern console gaming is the PS+/gold multiplayer tax. Rumour has it xbox may make all online play free soon, lets hope it happens and Sony is forced to follow suit

Man all I want to do is to play my ALREADY PURCHASED ps1 - ps2 - ps3 - psp/vita digital games on my PlayStation without paying another expensive infinite recurring subscription! Please Sony stop milking us dry with these never ending gaming taxes. You are forcing people to PC with your greed

Wait a minute... they are copying nintendos dumb move by charging a higher subscription 'tier' to access old games that should be playable by default? This is awful news, just ask the ninty fans! By all means combine PS+ and PSnow (should've happened years ago imo) but to lock your backwards compatibility initiative behind your most expensive pay wall is egregious!!! It's like they want us to pirate their old games..

An up-scaling vita emulator on ps4/ps5 would be nice, my whole collection is digital after all. Sort it sony!

I am not impressed, no campaign, 64 players on ps4 (Mag had 256 on ps3!) lobbies filled with bots AND they are charging full price? think I will wait for the inevitable free to play battlefield royale thank you very much

Cross play between PC and consoles will eventually kill off the PS+/xbox live subscription requirements. More and more people are noticing that the online multiplayer tax is not justified when your friends on PC get the same experience for free

I better go check if this will lock out any multiplayer trophies, fed up of companies creating unobtainable platinums by turning off servers, at least they gave us some notice...

I own all of them but only my vita can play every one digitally off my 64gb card, FF1,2,3 are on psp, 4,5,6,7,8,9 + tactics are ps one classics plus X+X-2 remaster on vita. Would be nice to get these for posterity for ps4/5 as the great store closure is definitely happening soon. PC folks have emulators so I doubt they give two hoots about this announcement

In this day and age it better be F2P or it will flounder, it's a blessing and a curse but multiplayer only games don't really succeed anymore unless they maximize their playerbase by being free. I suspect sony sees halos mp going standalone+F2P and they want to do the same with their big hitters as well. They even did a F2P uncharted 3 mp game back on ps3, it was a ton of fun, this will be the same deal I imagine

Not long till they put Cerny on to PS6, glad he gets to enjoy the fruits of his labour before he cracks on with designing future dream machines, what a legend

I predict that online multiplayer will be free again in the next 5 to 10 years. Consoles can't justify an online tax when the worlds biggest MP games are free to play

PS now could've been a decent backwards compatibility solution or a serious rival to gamepass, instead it's stuck in a terrible middle ground and fails in both regards

The more I hear about how these enormous back catalogues are being completely de-listed and lost to time in such short notice makes me think sony must have an ace up their sleeve. There is no way they are going to just leave all that history in the dust! We know you got these emulators in R&D sony, just give em to us for cryin out loud!

The minimum sony should've done is put the full ps1 / ps2 classics collection up on ps now already, furthermore allow us to play them if we purchased them in the past! What a pipe dream though

There go all those cool little digital games from the early days of the PSN. Thankful that our download lists are safe! The lack of respect for sony's own heritage is pretty shocking really, it's outright shameful that people will be forced into piracy just to play ps1 + ps2 games they'd buy legally if they could.

I'm still hoping that sony has something up their sleeve regarding back compat, it still boggles my mind why they don't allow you to play digital games you already bought for ps3 through ps now somehow. I bought catherine digitaly for ps3 years ago, why make me pay again just to stream it to ps4/5? Another thing they could do but just won't

What really grinds my gears is that native ps1 ps2 and psp emulators already exist on your ps4! They are simply locked away in the firmware and are utilized by a handful of games such as Medieval, Parappa the rapper and locoroco remastered. Hackers/enthusiasts have definitively proven with Jailbroken ps4s that proper legacy support is not only possible but actually exists now... They just refuse to let you use it properly, Jim Ryan needs to get a grip!

Closing the store is one thing, but turning off servers for downloads and gameplay is quite another. I suspect-hope they simply close the store but keep purchase downloads going in perpetuity. Suddenly deleting all access to paid for ps1ps2ps3 licences would be a huge story, the internet would meltdown and microsoft would make hay. I'm more worried they shut off all online play on ps3, I predict that's not too far off unfortunately

The old way was already a hassle, shocked to hear it's now worse, guess sony really is focusing on singleplayer gaming

Well i'm blown away by the quality of games you can play without spending anything; Apex, warzone, fortnite, warframe, rocket league, genshin etc, 70 quid games look absolutely daft by comparison

I don't understand why people refuse to even try free to play games, if you don't like it you can delete it and you loose nothing

They could but they won't, they have ps1-ps2-psp emulators already on ps4 which can be unlocked through hacks, they just withhold tech to make money reselling our games to us. Bad show

You'd think a company that's proud of it's history would do more to preserve it's back catalogue, 25 years of incredible computer entainment and we can only play the last 6/7 years worth. Lets hope sony finally realizes backwards compatibility matters

If the rumour that xbox is ditching xbox live gold subscriptions is true and multiplayer goes free then this 250 quid box will fly off the shelves. Xbox might have next gen stiched up!

Wow psyonix actually convinced sony to drop the ps+ requirement from a game! That's huge! l know F2P games don't require plus but games that transition from paid to free have still needed ps+ for some reason. This is a positive move by sony, I just wonder why Bungie couldn't convince sony to drop ps+ paywalls in destiny 2 when that went free to play

It's time to admit crysis looks dated in 2020, crysis 2 and 3 on the other hand still hold up on a good PC. I was hoping for a crysis trilogy at 60fps 1080p on ps4, with a full blown open world next gen crysis 4 on ps5, it's time for a comeback me thinks

Ps3 was the best PlayStation, free online play, HD widescreen gaming, blu-ray playback, full backwards compatibility, (at launch at least). Sure it was expensive but it was worth every penny

I remember not buying this on ps3 when it was about 3 quid in a sale many years ago, had non-buyers remorse ever since

The one thing that bothers me is there's no auto-sprint, everything is so insanely fast I wonder why they have a walking pace at all? having to click L3 everytime after doing anything is pretty irritating. Full button mapping is also needed rather than presets, the core gameplay is chaotic fun, just controls badly which can be fixed, let's hope sooner rather than later

It's damn fun but still a bit buggy (had a few audio glitches) defo needs an auto sprint option ASAP! Nobody walks around in a fast paced battle royale, my L3 stick can't take it anymore

The days of paying for multiplayer access are numbered, with cross-play + free to play + console exclusives on steam, neither sony or microsoft will be able to justify charging for online access for much longer

Bad show, mostly stuff we've seen before, is it me or did the ps4 games look better graphically than the ps5 games?

Horizon is an incredible IP, but I do still miss killzone. I would also love a remaster of the original trilogy for ps5, still sad the online servers for 2 and 3 were turned off, guerrilla can do amazing multiplayer, hopefully soon we'll see more in that regard

Maybe Sony can afford to make online free again then? If they improved PS+ people would have a reason to stay subscribed aside from online access. Holding multiplayer modes hostage behind paywalls is a great way to stifle accessibility, split up your playerbase and lose customers to steam/epic (and soon the xbox too). Sony's greed might just lose them the generation, I really hope not, but arrogant Sony may be back

if MS drop the multiplayer pay wall and Sony keep theirs I will just move to xbox/PC for multiplayer and multiplatform games and use ps5 for exclusives, so will everybody else! It's unthinkable Sony will allow MS to have such a huge advantage for long, I predict MS will make online free and sony will try to keep the plus paywall for a year or so before they realise they are losing millions of players to PC / xbox and the resentment, complaints and bad PR grows so loud they finally cave just like the cross play debacle

I sense Sony hubris after the success of the ps4, if microsoft drops the xbox live gold paywall (as heavily rumoured) and sony keeps the PS+ paywall; sony is utterly screwed and the casuals will flock to xbox in the millions. A less powerful more expensive ps5 on top of that will guarantee sony loses next gen!

I'm surprised microsoft hasn't done more to integrate xbox with steam somehow, a console that can run and install PC games would surely dominate next gen

Best gift Sony could give is bringing back free online play when microsoft inevitably announce the death of xbox gold any day now, with crossplay and PC releases neither company can justify paywalled multiplayer anymore!

@BarryBurton97 With cross play it doesn't matter! price is not the issue it's the principle. Why pay a tax when PC players don't? I personally was looking into a gaming PC for MP next gen, but xbox becomes a no brainer if they drop gold requirement. I support pro consumer decisions

I own almost every make and model of playstation and an enormous library over 4 generations. I'm an unapologetic sony superfan, but if this is true and MS offers free multiplayer and Sony sticks with it's PS+ paywall; I am 100% buying an xbox for my multiplatform / multiplayer games. If it really happens Sony will either cave or lose next gen, I'm crossing every finger and toe that very soon we can forget multiplayer subscriptions ever existed, thank the lord!

I really think PlayStation (and microsoft) opting to charge for multiplayer was a massive mistake from the start. It made them a huge amount of money in the short term but can't be sustained as gaming evolves. Cross play has shown us that objectively PC is the superior platform. Console players are finally asking themselves why we pay a tax for multiplayer when PC players can have better hardware, infrastructure and functionality, can still play the same games online with console friends (for free) and now play microsoft / sony exlusives with better graphics and performance across the board. It's simply unjustifiable. The pessimist in me thinks microsoft is too greedy and will never turn down money, but the optimist in me sees MS making the right choice by making online free, forcing sony to follow suit, ultimately changing the market for the better. I may even buy my first Xbox if this true, just to support pro consumer decisions. Sony better watch out, next gen is looking like a real fight

White trim but keeping the blue box? With that ps5 header I would prefer solid white or transparent box

Resident evil village is a bad name, just call it Resident evil 8. (or VIII), otherwise it sounds like a spin-off