UPDATE: Ubisoft reached out toGematsuto confirm that there are inaccuracies related to “Ubisoft titles that will be playable on PS5.” The Ubisoft article that listed several games that would not be backward compatible on PS5 has been pulled offline.
The PS5 is set to release in less than two weeks, which means that a lot of important information about the PS5 is going to be shared in the run-up to launch. Case in point a recent article fromUbisoftdetailing next-gen cross-progression, cross-play, and backward compatibility. To the surprise of many,Ubisoftconfirmed that a variety of its games will not be backward compatible on PS5, despite Sony’s recent reassurance that the vast majority of PS4 games will work on PS5.
Ubisoft provides a list of just under 10 games that won’t work inPS5 via backward compatibility, with the biggest game on the list beingAssassin’s Creed Syndicate, the follow-up toRogueandUnityand the predecessor toOrigins. OtherAssassin’s Creedgames on the list include theAssassin’s Creed Chronicles Trilogy Pack, as well as its individualChronicles India,China, andRussiagames. The rest of the list is made of up smaller releases, includingRisk,Star Trek Bridge Crew,Werewolves Within, andSpace Junkies.
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None of the games Ubisoft lists as incompatibleon PS5 are major releasesand so it’s unlikely to cause too much of a controversy. Nevertheless, it’s surprising that there are any games that aren’t supported at all, especially from a publisher like Ubisoft. It also prompts the question as to whether other major publishers similarly have lists of games that won’t be backward compatible, but that haven’t been shared yet.
It should be noted that in the same section of the article, Ubisoft states that theXbox Series X and Xbox Series Swon’t have any similar problems. Ubisoft even goes so far as saying, “all our Xbox One games will be backward compatible.” Hopefully,Ubisoftwill be able to patch or fix the remaining PS4 games that aren’t PS5 compatible so that both next-gen platforms will have universal support before too long.
