Do the digital games bought on 360 PS3 carry over to next gen?

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kitler53 said:

siavm said:

Mohasus said:

Hyruken said:
I fail to believe that technically they can't be played on the new consoles as let's be honest here eventually they will be available to buy and play just like the older games have been. I.e the HD collections. I mean they are supposedly now using more PC like technology and you can play your PC games no matter how you change your system.

It isn't a matter of faith, they'd have to be rewritten to work on ps4 and xbox one. And your PC's architecture doesn't change when you upgrade or buy a new one.

Thanks to gaikai all ps games can be played on ps4. And with the cloud the one has I am sure they could play all 360 over the cloud. So no excuse. They are just being greedy.

for the same reason a ps3 game can't run on a ps4 without some rewrittng,..  a ps3 game can't run on a cloud server (aka PC) without rework as well.  this is why sony said gaikai will support "a selection of favorites with more support over time". 

i'm hoping that gaikai honors digitally purchased titles but to be frank,.. most of my digitally purchased titles won't even be on the service for a very long time if ever.

That is one reason another is copy rights, etc, can be a tangled mess. You can just unilatterly decide to put a game on the service even if you foot the bill for the rewrite. You need premission from the owner of the IP and that can get messy, that is why Nintendo can not just realease its entire software liberary, sometimes the owner is different in the different markets and they usually want to get paid for use of the IP. And sometimes the owner of the IP isn't clear. And overtime developers go under and the IPs are used to pay off debts and then scuttled so the owner cannot be found. (But you can be sure if a hardware owner decides to release it the owner will pop out of the wood work asking for more money then it is worth.)