"I just want to insert my old PS1-4 disc in my PS5 and play them."

>"I just want to insert my old PS1-4 disc in my PS5 and play them."

Are gamers really this stupid?

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Well? Why isn't that possible?

worked for the PS3, works(to a certain extent) for the Series X.

Through emulation you turbo nigger. If you put a supported OG Xbox or Xbox 360 game in an Xbox Series X it immediately starts downloading the game so you can play it. Sony has no excuse, but it's not laziness: it's greed. They do this so they can sell remasters.

ps5:no games
xbox x: no games but i can play team fortress

Disc wont work anymore. Give it up. Fuck your nostalgia

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The wii could play gamecube games, and those disks were differently shaped.
DS could play gba and gb, and those were all different cartridges.

>1 am
>alone at home
>house is pitch dark except for the tv
>put game in
>this happens
Most terrifying shit ever

But most PS2 games used DVDs and I’ve yet to find a bluray drive that can’t read CDs

>buying a PS5
Yes I'm afraid they really are that stupid

>buy ps1 game off ebay
>forgot to check the region
>this comes up

I imagine this is what you see before entering hell

The GameCube no-disc screen always gave me the ass sweats

Just imagine if ps5 could play ANY Playstation game. The retro game market would be fucked. PS1 and PS2 game prices will skyrocket

Yes, I want Sony to respect my past purchases and allow me to play my old games on new hardware. There's no good excuse for games dying on old platforms anymore, if anything, MS' backwards compatibility should be the bare minimum expectation.

you either need to recreate the physical hardware, or have software emulate it.
physical chips require the console to be designed with likely superfluous bits and emulation requires that each game is tested and potentially patched to work. it is possible but expensive.

Hardware spec wise, the Wii's PowerPC CPU was an improved version of the Gamecube's CPU, so it was perfectly backwards compatibility. Similar with the Nintendo DS, it used the GBA's ARM7 CPU as a co-processor, so it would just switch to that for GBA games, which is the same situation as the PS2 for PS1 games.
>DS could play gba and gb, and those were all different cartridges.
DS had a separate slot for GBA games, shaped for GBA cartridges. The DS couldn't play GB / GBC games.

dont xboxs do this?

Yes, an Xbox also can't play PS1-PS4 discs.

Works for PC just fine.Can consoles not... uh oh...

It can play PS1/2 games in 1080/60+ with retroarch

It was simpler when they did it with the Wii U that just had a Wii in it and the Wii also just had a GameCube in it