# First Official News about the PS5 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 16, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-official-news-about-the-ps5/832640 "2019-04-16T19:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-official-news-about-the-ps5/832640/1 "2019-04-16T19:33:36Z")
> **[Exclusive: What to Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation](https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/)** > > Don't expect it anytime in 2019, but the next PlayStation console is well on its way—and it's packing ray-tracing support and a loadtime-killing solid-state hard drive. Key points: Not releasing in 2019 Will still use physical media Backwards compatible with PS4 Will use solid state hard drives in some fashion; load times for Spider-Man are 19x faster on a PS5 devkit compared to a PS4 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-official-news-about-the-ps5/832640/2 "2019-04-16T20:15:58Z")
Backwards compatible! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-official-news-about-the-ps5/832640/3 "2019-04-17T00:50:39Z")
Will it play my PS2 and PS3 games? ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-official-news-about-the-ps5/832640/4 "2019-04-18T19:11:29Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Backwards compatible! Not particularly surprising…the reason there was no BC on the PS4 was the MAJOR redesign of the hardware from the PS3. The only real way to achieve it would have been to include an entire PS3 in each PS4 (which is how the PS3 launched with PS & PS2 BC.) So, I doubt it will be PS3 BC. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-official-news-about-the-ps5/832640/5 "2019-04-18T19:50:26Z")
I wouldn’t even need to BE this excited if stupid Bioware wasn’t such a dumpster fire and would just remaster and release the Mass Effect Trilogy (hell throw Andromeda in there too) for the 4. Maybe they finally will since they need some good PR…