Last week, Dark Souls specialist Lance McDonald tweeted about the PS5's backwards compatibility feature before deleting it. Resetera captured the tweet.
"There's been some confusion about this in the past and I can clear it up now: The PlayStation 5 can run all PlayStation 4 games without per-game whitelisting. Sony continue to test titles but the system will not prevent you from launching untested games."
After this was deleted, a later tweet reportedly said: "I deleted a tweet out of respect for the platform holder, feel free to interpret that however you like." This was also deleted.
If true, this essentially means that you won't encounter any barriers when you play a PS4 game on your PS5 – no "whitelisting" would mean you could try any game and see how it plays. It's possible you won't have an experience that's identical to the game as it runs on PS4 – but you won't have to wait for Sony to add that game to a list and give you permission to play it on PS5, if this tweet is correct.
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