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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AxePosted:

Maybe this might be because they are in a different format or just aren't physically able to.

I don't think sony is plotting against us or anything

imgurPosted:

Yay! I get to but my games twice! Sweet feature...

CentPosted:

Feet So if I want to play call of duty, they have to reformat all of them... and i have to purchase it again.


Yup, pretty stupid.

KelcyPosted:

lol... what a fail

ZyphrPosted:

So if I want to play call of duty, they have to reformat all of them... and i have to purchase it again.

64GBPosted:

Wow seriously, well hopefully they will make games that are from the ps3 but can be compatible with the ps4 like xbox did with halo :D

MurderersPosted:

F**k that. after the money i spent buying games and for the new console to no longer read?
yeah no im not getting ps4. waste of money IMO

LichPosted:

hmm more ways of robbing money from people :/

GroovyPosted:

XeJames This would be acceptable if people did not need to practically re-buy their PS3 games just to play them on the PS4. They should at least make the cost to re-buy the games for the PS4 considerably cheap (If previously owned).



That would be very hard to accomplish

How would they implement that?

MortarPosted:

This would be acceptable if people did not need to practically re-buy their PS3 games just to play them on the PS4. They should at least make the cost to re-buy the games for the PS4 considerably cheap (If previously owned).


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