How to play Fallout: New Vegas on PS5 or PS4

The success of Prime Video's Fallout series has sparked renewed interest in the games on which it is based on. While the most recent game in the franchise was 2018's Fallout 76, many viewers are flocking towards some of the older games in the series as they tend to offer more of a story-driven, role-playing experience.

One of the more popular requests if 2010's Fallout: New Vegas, from developer Obsidian. Although a bit dated by today's standards, many consider Fallout: New Vegas to be the best game in the series, at least from a role-playing perspective.

Playing Fallout: New Vegas is pretty easy on Xbox, as Microsoft has amazing backward compatibility. You can buy it for $19.99 and play it on Xbox Series X|S right now with no issues. Or you can even play it for free through Game Pass.

On PC, it's also easily available.

But things get a bit more tricky when trying to play Fallout: New Vegas on PlayStation 5, or even PlayStation 4. You see, when it comes to backward compatibility, Sony sort of fumbled the bag. There's no way to purchase and play Fallout: New Vegas on PS5 or PS4 — but hope is not completely lost.

Yes, you can play Fallout: New Vegas on PS5 and PS4; here's how

Thankfully, there is still a way to play Fallout: New Vegas on PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 — but it requires a PS Plus Premium subscription.

PlayStation Plus Premium is home to hundreds of PlayStation Classics from the PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP era. And the only way to play Fallout: New Vegas on your PS5 or PS4 is to stream it using the PS Plus Premium subscription. It's not ideal, but it's your only option.

A one-month subscription to PlayStation Plus Premium costs $17.99. This gets you access to the Game Catalog, Classics Catalog, PS Plus Collection, 100GB clodu storage, and more.