10 Things You Didn't Know Your PS5 Could Do

7. Use The DualShock 4 For PS4 Games

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Though Sony made it abundantly clear prior to the PS5's release that you can't use your PS4's DualShock 4 controllers to play PS5 games - due to the advanced hardware specs of the DualSense controller - that doesn't mean they're destined to become dusty relics forevermore.

You can still use the DualShock 4 on PS5 to play backwards-compatible PS4 games, and this is especially handy if you want to play a co-op PS4 game, allowing you to use both the DualShock 4 and DualSense in the same game.

So while this perhaps won't be something you'll do all that often on PS5, it's still nice to know that the DualSense 4 works perfectly fine when playing PS4 games on the system.

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