PlayStation 4 Not Backwards Compatible With Retail or Digital Games

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In a conversation with journalists, the President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios said that PS3 games - both the retail and downloadable variety - will not be compatible with PlayStation 4, at least not natively. In other words, your PS3 discs won’t work with the new console, neither will any games you downloaded. This means that titles like Journey, The Unfinished Swan, Shatter, and hundreds of other games available in the digital space will not be carried over to PlayStation 4, in addition to the collection of PS3 discs you already have.

However, you *will* be able to play PS1, PS2 and PS3 games on the PlayStation 4 by downloading them. The PlayStation 4 will include the services Gaikai. They offer cloud storage, and this is where you will most likely buy your old games from. The bad thing is, if you already own a game and you want to play it on the PS4, you will have to buy it from the online store in order to play it.

“There are two ways to play legacy content: emulation, or cloud services from Gaikai. But native support of digital games from PS3, no, sorry. It doesn’t work.”



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SOGPosted:

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Reduction Hopefully this makes Microsoft allow it.


I was thinking the same thing, if MS allows old games they will have such an advantage.


Can't agree more, just hoping Microsoft allow it.


I can't see it happening.


It would be smarter on their part, but me neither...


Xbox certainly can, so we will have to wait.


Yeah, just time to wait and see.

OdinPosted:

Zwrq
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Reduction Hopefully this makes Microsoft allow it.


I was thinking the same thing, if MS allows old games they will have such an advantage.


Can't agree more, just hoping Microsoft allow it.


I can't see it happening.


It would be smarter on their part, but me neither...


Xbox certainly can, so we will have to wait.

KelcyPosted:

Hope Xbox do something like this

TagsPosted:

Hope Xbox do this now as well.

imgurPosted:

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Zwrq
Reduction Hopefully this makes Microsoft allow it.


I was thinking the same thing, if MS allows old games they will have such an advantage.


Can't agree more, just hoping Microsoft allow it.


I can't see it happening.


It would be smarter on their part, but me neither...

SOGPosted:

Feet
Alone
Zwrq
Reduction Hopefully this makes Microsoft allow it.


I was thinking the same thing, if MS allows old games they will have such an advantage.


Can't agree more, just hoping Microsoft allow it.


I can't see it happening.


I don't know if it's hard for them to do, or if they want money. But I hope they do it.

HallPosted:

Wowww, this kinda sucks.

ZyphrPosted:

Alone
Zwrq
Reduction Hopefully this makes Microsoft allow it.


I was thinking the same thing, if MS allows old games they will have such an advantage.


Can't agree more, just hoping Microsoft allow it.


I can't see it happening.

ExoticWolfsPosted:

That's really gay. Buying the games over. D:

imgurPosted:

ME0W Of course you would have to buy them a second time to play them.


Great new feature right!?


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