Simply put - money.
The "collection" only includes certain games. If the other download games on your ps4 have to be repurchased for PS5 Sony et all make money.
Remember, they did all those ps3 remasters to ps4 and made money on every sale e.g. FFX, FF12, Last Guardian etc. And released PS3 games to buy on PSN. You could not play a PS3 game on PS4 any other way.
If all the downloaded PS4 games work on PS5, publishers will have significantly lower earnings on back catalogue from both of the above, which has to be replaced somehow.
I'm not saying this is going to be the case, but a sample of PS Plus games being announced as redownloadable on PS5 (I dont have PS Plus, so they arent available to me anyway!). And saying that "all PS4 games should work on PS5".
Is not the same as "all your PS4 download library will be available on PS5, subject to checking the game works".
I hope that makes sense?
Yep sure. I hear you, and can understand the concern.
I guess my response would simply be that the PS4 wasn't backwards compatible. Hence the need for developers to literally create a 'remaster' so their PS3 game could be played on a PS4.
The argument this time around would be that the PS5 is backwards compatible.
A PS5 can read a PS4 game (be it disc or digital), in the same way a select few PS3 models could read PS2 games.
The issue is that Sony haven't, at least to my knowledge, said that games people have bought for their PS4 through the PS Store will be there for them to download for free when they transfer their account to a new PS5. They've said that 99% of PS4 games will work, as in you can stick your PS4 games disks in and they'll run fine (or run even better), but nothing about the free availability of digital PS4 games you've already purchased.
Well to be fair using that standard, there hasn't been any specific claim of 'disc' or 'physical' either.
The language used is always 'PS4 games' or 'PS4 catalogue', with no mention of the type of media be it disc or digital.
It seems you are suggesting that SONY would say "Well you bought a disc version of this game game so you're all good, but this guy bought the digital version of the same game, so he's going to have to pay the price'.
Obviously I don't have a PS5, but that scenario seems unlikely to me.
For both Jim and Cracker, I'm not trying to be clever nor dismiss your concerns.
But for me that's just the logical way things will turn out.
This was made clear in the first Cerny presentation earlier in the year, PS4 games will be bootable from disk and installed to an external hard drive, but not the ssd which is ps5 games only. You can dl your games purchased on psn digitally as many times as you like, you will have to make your ps5 the primary console in the options to do this. Basically an external HD is all that will be required and for some games patches as there will be improved res/frame rate for quite a few.
I may be mistaken but I'm assuming you are referring to the 'deep dive' talk.
To be fair, I don't think there is anything specifically regarding downloading digital versions.
Perhaps it was somewhere else you heard that?
Regardless, I would agree with what you are saying there.
I may just query the HDD part though.
I don't believe an external HDD is necessary, but simply a suggested avenue if looking for more game memory space on your console.
At any rate, here's that particular tech talk and the accompanying blog post.
Check time stamp 19:50 - 21:00 for SSD/HDD mention.
Check time stamp 27:00 - 28:30 for BC mention.
https://blog.playstation.com/2020/0...ls-of-playstation-5-hardware-technical-specs/
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! I know GT is a big seller, but if they're trying to get new people to the console, GT I'd argue isn't the way to get them, we're already here 
. When I watched peoples reactions to the last announcement, the ones I watched said while it looked good they weren't interested. But again just different views.
