PlayStation 4 Not Backwards Compatible With Retail or Digital Games

4.7
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.”



Posted:
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Related Articles

Comments

"PlayStation 4 Not Backwards Compatible With Retail or Digital Games" :: Login/Create an Account :: 137 comments

If you would like to post a comment please signin to your account or register for an account.

MazurPosted:

yay
Mazur
Tow_Mater
Compliance
Soulful This will be really bad if they don't fix this, I'm sure they will though.


Yeah, they probably will eventually fix this..


Yeah they mite fix it they have the time.....


there's not a way to fix it, they either implement the backwards compatibility or they don't....


I hope they don't go through with this, it would draw so many people away.


well it's just like the problem with the original PS3, the only way the could fix that big fat thing was to make a slim w/o the backwards compatibility, so who knows..

HallPosted:

yay What is so bad about playing old games? What are these guys thinking?


I don't understand either..

HallPosted:

SOG
yay
Mazur
Tow_Mater
Compliance
Soulful This will be really bad if they don't fix this, I'm sure they will though.


Yeah, they probably will eventually fix this..


Yeah they mite fix it they have the time.....


there's not a way to fix it, they either implement the backwards compatibility or they don't....


I hope they don't go through with this, it would draw so many people away.


Eh, not really. They are allowing downloads of games, just not hard-copies.


Hard copies are kind of a big deal.. haha

SOGPosted:

yay
Mazur
Tow_Mater
Compliance
Soulful This will be really bad if they don't fix this, I'm sure they will though.


Yeah, they probably will eventually fix this..


Yeah they mite fix it they have the time.....


there's not a way to fix it, they either implement the backwards compatibility or they don't....


I hope they don't go through with this, it would draw so many people away.


Eh, not really. They are allowing downloads of games, just not hard-copies.

yayPosted:

Mazur
Tow_Mater
Compliance
Soulful This will be really bad if they don't fix this, I'm sure they will though.


Yeah, they probably will eventually fix this..


Yeah they mite fix it they have the time.....


there's not a way to fix it, they either implement the backwards compatibility or they don't....


I hope they don't go through with this, it would draw so many people away.

MazurPosted:

Tow_Mater
Compliance
Soulful This will be really bad if they don't fix this, I'm sure they will though.


Yeah, they probably will eventually fix this..


Yeah they mite fix it they have the time.....


there's not a way to fix it, they either implement the backwards compatibility or they don't....

MazurPosted:

yay
Mazur
yay What is so bad about playing old games? What are these guys thinking?


don't know, maybe they want people to buy the same games they had on the new console.


They want people to spend more money on new games instead of playing the old games.


that's what i meant lol
still dunno why they couldn't make it backwards compatible, WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY

ChugJugPosted:

Compliance
Soulful This will be really bad if they don't fix this, I'm sure they will though.


Yeah, they probably will eventually fix this..


Yeah they mite fix it they have the time.....

PGAPosted:

Soulful This will be really bad if they don't fix this, I'm sure they will though.


Yeah, they probably will eventually fix this..

yayPosted:

Mazur
yay What is so bad about playing old games? What are these guys thinking?


don't know, maybe they want people to buy the same games they had on the new console.


They want people to spend more money on new games instead of playing the old games.


Latest Downloads

Latest Tutorials