If the PS4 is not B/C with the PS3's purchased online wares, I will need to be compensated.

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JinxRake said:

Most of the games you BOUGHT on the PC a few years back will not run properly on your current architecture. I'm 100% confident that if I go and pull out my all time favorite game from my library, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, and install it on my Windows XP PC, it won't run it -as it's already happened- and I would have to resort to internet hacks or tips. I cannot take that game to Valve and shove it under their noses and demand they give me an online copy that works with my current PC -or GoG, whoever's selling the thing now-. They would laugh at me. The developers or the publishers that put it out even more so.

Actually. It depends on the game whether it will work or not.

Grab StarCraft, released in 1998, Runs on Windows XP/7/8 just fine.
Master of Orion 2, released in 1995, runs on XP/7/8 just fine.

In-fact there is a gaming store known as "Good Old Games" which grabs games that are a decade or two old and sells them and they all work fine on Windows XP/7/8. - Seriously, hit it up. gog.com, they even patch the games if they have issues and for a couple of bucks for some DRM free retro gaming, who can complain? :)

Another option is to use a Virtual machine and install Windows 98 or Windows NT and go from there, unlike the consoles and other platforms you actually have options of playing your old games just fine, regardless of it's age.

Or, you know, you could build a "Retro" gaming machine for next to nothing, I built one a couple of years ago with an Athlon XP 3000+, 1gb of ram, 2x 3dfx Voodoo 2's in SLI and a Radeon 9200 for 2D all running Windows 98SE.
You forget how awesome it was running glide games back from "way back then". :)

My main desktop though, every game I've wanted to play from the last few decades has run fine without any dramas (I can list them if you so wish.), so please don't spread such FUD.