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Caniray said:
Soleron said:

The combination of ongoing PS3 exclusives (wtf Sony) and every third party game for the first two years (I guess) being dual this-gen/next-gen will very much hurt PS4 and 720.

The number of next-gen games that feel like they need a new console to be awesome will be limited to Killzone 4 this year. Halo and Gears don't come out this year. Everything else that could is third party.

Wii U does have two big shiny reasons to buy, ineffective as they are. 1. differentiated hardware, the tablet is defininitely new. 2. definite and obvious improvements to online, graphics, account system, social from day 1. Live and PSN are already great and full of content today.

Now it will be MUCH worse if they don't make PSN extremely fucking compatible with everything transferring. Feeling like all your friends are on PS3-PSN while you're on an empty PS4-PSN will be a very good reason to not buy.


Nah, I just don't think they will make it feeling like a separated PS4-PSN. I mean, at least half of the PS4 games will also be on PS3 at the first 1 or 2 years, so it's ok if your friends only have PS3s

I agree that they can and should integrate PS3 games into the PS4 PSN (so you can see friends are online, so the multiplayer games can even be played cross-platform, etc) but this takes a lot of work. Sony could take the easy option and just start over, especially with all of the new Facebook integration and Gaikai code that would be difficult to interface. The lack of PS3 BC seems to indicate to me that they won't be working on a smooth transition like that.