Eurogamer: PS4 May Include Cloud-Based PS3 BC

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richardhutnik said:

gigantor21 said:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-16-the-ps4-to-feature-cloud-based-backwards-compatibility-report

Sounds good on paper, but the key issue is going to be performance and pricing. How exactly will this work in practice? WIll it be free, part of PS+ or a seperate paid service entirely? If they pull it off, it'd be godlike, but that's going to be difficult at best.

Thoughts?

Idea is to say you have the old content on your machien for sale, but make sure that owners of the new console can't play their old titles, so you can resell it.  This looks like a way to try to answer the riddle of how you get people to buy the same content over and over and over again.

I would presume that all titles bought via PSN will work, otherwise it's not really BC.  It'd just be buying PS4 ports of PS3 titles.  We don't consider the HD Classics line to be BC, now do we?

It'd be like playing PSP games on Vita.  UMD games obviosuly don't work, but all games bought via the network were available from day one.

For disc based games, yes, we'd have to rebuy them all.  And for most people that would be the bulk of their collection.