Gaikai to stream PS3 games to PS4 and Vita
Speaking during a roundtable interview at the Tokyo Game Show on Thursday, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said the Gaikai service would commence in North America in 2014. A European release date was not provided.
An initial batch of PS3 games will be available to stream on PS4, PS Vita and the recently-announced PS Vita TV, he added.
"We are planning to start serving PS3 games on cloud servers in the States next year for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita - and that means PS Vita TV as well - and expand in regions and content," Yoshida said, as quoted by Edge.
"And as far as content is concerned, the first games that will exist will be PS3 games. We'd like to offer a variety of games, because with video services like Netflix or Hulu, you just want to browse through different movies, watch five minutes and if you're bored you can move on to something else - and that's part of the fun.
"But we have to make sure that the game can work through the internet, so we have to go through certification for each title. So we'll start with a certain number of titles and gradually expand the library."
The PlayStation 4 does not natively play games built for its predecessor, chiefly due to the incompatibility and exotic nature of the PS3's multi-threaded code.
However, Sony appears to have found a solution by hosting these games on compatible severs and streaming them to other devices via Gaikai.
It is unclear how Sony will charge for the service, and whether it will detect is a PSN user already has the licence to play certain PS3 games.
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Dr-PonyfilePosted:
I hope that when this service is launched and they bring all the COD's to the PS4 I hope they patch the game first before putting it out there as I would like to play COD 4 legitimatley without running into some kid with godmode unlimited ammo etc.
AlbericiPosted:
Lightyear-LamborginiOriginalGamertagCostLia I hope the Xbox One does something similar to this, it seems like a cool idea.
It'll be amazing if they did that for the xbox one.
they need mw2 on xbox one!
They need some awesome games from the 360 on it in general.
I hope they actually add some "classics" from the 360, that would be great!
or just to fix the problem fire most of the team and re create it.
ARHPosted:
It seems like Sony is stepping up their game. They will ALWAYS have more varieties like this than Xbox. Xbox would/will NEVER think like this!
MentalistPosted:
daRealRush Hopefully, you can stream the Sly Collection on the Vita, that would nice! :)
That would be insane, I enjoyed playing Sly alot on my PS3.
They were pretty easy trophies aswell!
MentalistPosted:
-LamborginiOriginalGamertagCostLia I hope the Xbox One does something similar to this, it seems like a cool idea.
It'll be amazing if they did that for the xbox one.
they need mw2 on xbox one!
They need some awesome games from the 360 on it in general.
I hope they actually add some "classics" from the 360, that would be great!
VPNPosted:
OriginalGamertagCostLia I hope the Xbox One does something similar to this, it seems like a cool idea.
It'll be amazing if they did that for the xbox one.
they need mw2 on xbox one!
They need some awesome games from the 360 on it in general.
Corn_DogPosted:
Gaikai will be epic! This is only the start with them, I really am excited to see what else the fastest streaming service in the world will do to help improve the PS4.
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