With the PlayStation 5 on the horizon and Sony announcing backwards compatibility with the PlayStation 4, fans have been wondering if every game in its library will be brought over to the next generation. While the vast majority of what the PlayStation 4 has to offer will be available, there are just over 10 titles that will be locked to the PlayStation 4 for the time being.
A couple weeks back, Sony announced that a few titles such as Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma, Just Deal With It!, Shadow Complex Remastered, and TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge would be among the titles not backwards compatible with the PlayStation 5. While these may not be the most popular titles on the PlayStation 4, Konami has also announced that PT will remain on current-gen hardware.
PT, a playable teaser for the now-canceled Silent Hills, has already had a rough time prior to this announcement. The scrapped title was also de-listed from the PlayStation Store shortly after the cancellation of Silent Hills. As such, the ability to play this short demo is dwindling.
This announcement has a number of ramifications. For one, fans looking to sell their PlayStation 4 to trade in towards a PlayStation 5 are now discouraged to do so out of fear the increasingly rare title will never be available again. Worse than that, it spells out some bad news for game preservationists who don’t want to see such a beloved title be forgotten. While some previously de-listed games, like Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game, do make their way back to consoles, it is not very likely that PT will have the same kind of resurgence.
Fans are going to have to rely on other methods to play PT if they’re really aching to try it out. Thanks to Half Life: Alyx modders, that is possible on PC, but console-only fans don’t have as many options and may be feeling left out of the fun that PT has to offer.
Although this is sad news, fans should be conscientious of the situation Konami is in. Silent Hills was canceled, and using time and money to port over a free demo would not be within Konami’s interests, even if it would make fans happy. There plenty of short and scary horror games to fill the void left by PT, so fans might just have to chalk this one up to a loss for now.
The PlayStation 5 hits store shelves on November 12 in select regions.
Source: GamesRadar
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