What has been confirmed about PS4 backwards compatibility?
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Morning all
I want to play the last of us, GT6 and the unchartered games - as well as a few other PS3 exclusives.
But I don't know whether to get a PS3 now they are coming down in price, or get a PS4 with the hope of backwards compatibility.
Am I right in thinking the PS4 cannot play PS3 games from the disc tray?
If so, what have Sony said about it? I have had a look on Google, but I'm fed up of seeing rumours!
Thanks
Dan
I want to play the last of us, GT6 and the unchartered games - as well as a few other PS3 exclusives.
But I don't know whether to get a PS3 now they are coming down in price, or get a PS4 with the hope of backwards compatibility.
Am I right in thinking the PS4 cannot play PS3 games from the disc tray?
If so, what have Sony said about it? I have had a look on Google, but I'm fed up of seeing rumours!
Thanks
Dan
From IGN:
"In a roundtable conversation with journalists, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios noted that PS3 games of 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 in the new console nor will the games you downloaded.
There’s a catch, though: emulation. The PlayStation 3 doesn’t read PlayStation 2 discs (at least not anymore), but it can play PS2 games via the PlayStation Store in an emulated environment. Yoshida concedes that this is possible for PlayStation 4 supporting legacy PlayStation consoles as well. Indeed, the Gaikai presentation during PlayStation 4’s reveal touched on this “everything, everywhere” mentality. But for now, downloaded PS3 games won’t work “unless, somehow, some games work on emulation. And the easiest thing, technically, would be to make PSone games work on PS4 with emulation. But we’re not talking about our emulation plans as yet.”
In short, “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.”
Basically No, but you might be able to re-download them at a later date if you pay again.
"In a roundtable conversation with journalists, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios noted that PS3 games of 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 in the new console nor will the games you downloaded.
There’s a catch, though: emulation. The PlayStation 3 doesn’t read PlayStation 2 discs (at least not anymore), but it can play PS2 games via the PlayStation Store in an emulated environment. Yoshida concedes that this is possible for PlayStation 4 supporting legacy PlayStation consoles as well. Indeed, the Gaikai presentation during PlayStation 4’s reveal touched on this “everything, everywhere” mentality. But for now, downloaded PS3 games won’t work “unless, somehow, some games work on emulation. And the easiest thing, technically, would be to make PSone games work on PS4 with emulation. But we’re not talking about our emulation plans as yet.”
In short, “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.”
Basically No, but you might be able to re-download them at a later date if you pay again.
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