According to some rumors, Sony will not allow to buy more than one PS5 in the early stages of the launch. Here's why
From the Html code of PlayStation Direct, a website recently put online by Sony to sell its hardware products such as the future PlayStation 5, come some interesting indiscretions posted on Reddit by a very curious and geeky user.
In the code, in fact, that user has found the trace of an error message related to the cart, which should appear when a user tries to buy more than one PS5. In another part of the code, instead, there is the reference and the image of a new "PS5 Compatible" badge that should appear in the sales pages of PS4 games that can be played also on PS5. All this could mean, at the same time, that the opening of PS5 pre-orders is now close and that Sony has already thought of a fairly restrictive policy that will limit the purchase of more than one PS5.
PS5: you can only buy one
The message found by the Reddit user reads thus: "You can only buy one version of the PS5 console: Disc or Digital. You've already put a PS5 console in your cart." This is evidently an error message that will appear when a user tries to buy two or more PlayStation 5s (no matter if in Digital or optical disc version) and the PlayStation Direct site will prevent him from continuing with the order. This strategy is not wrong: unfortunately, when new generation consoles are launched on the market there are always speculators who buy dozens and dozens of them all at once, and then sell them second-hand at stratospheric prices as soon as the official stock runs out.
The PS5 Compatible badge
Always from the same user, then, comes the news of the badge that will ensure the compatibility of an old PS4 game even with the new next-gen console. Sony has repeatedly stated that since the day of the launch of PS5 "almost all" of the TOP100 games for PS4 will be immediately compatible with the new hardware. So those who buy the PS5 will be able to play with many games they already own, waiting for the arrival of new titles for PS5. Remember, however, that Sony has also announced that all new titles from its "first-party" developers (i.e. those that Sony itself controls, through its Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios) will not be backwards compatible with PS4. This is because they will have to be programmed just to give the best on PS5, without any compromise, and show the world what the next-gen Sony can do.