{"id":113602,"date":"2020-05-29T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363913"},"modified":"2020-05-29T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:54:00","slug":"sony-says-after-july-13th-new-ps4-games-must-be-ps5-compatible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/29\/sony-says-after-july-13th-new-ps4-games-must-be-ps5-compatible\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony says after July 13th, new PS4 games must be PS5 compatible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-05-29-new-ps4-games-must-be-playstation-5-compatible-from-july-sony-tells-devs\">According to a report from Eurogamer<\/a>, Sony has begun telling PlayStation 4 developers to prepare for the launch of the PlayStation 5 in a big new way. Starting on July 13th, games submitted for certification on PlayStation 4 must be compatible with PlayStation 5.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This news comes by way of developer documentation apparently posted on PlayStation&#8217;s internal partner website, that Eurogamer got its hands on. Apparently developers are able to use their PS4 devkits to perform this check, thanks to an update released in April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The documentation also apparently states that &#8220;compatibility&#8221; means that the submission code runs without issues on the PlayStation 5, and provides the same features on PS5 as PS4.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Developers who submit for certification before July 13th are apparently &#8220;strongly recommended&#8221; to prepare PS5 compatibility as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from Eurogamer, Sony has begun telling PlayStation 4 developers to prepare for the launch of the PlayStation 5 in a big new way. Starting on July 13th, games submitted for certification on PlayStation 4 must be compatible with PlayStation 5.&nbsp; This news comes by way of developer documentation apparently posted on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}