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Wright on 05 September 2013

Backwards Compatibility would be great. Too bad you have to purchase the games again.



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daredevil.shark on 05 September 2013

I am noob in this area. What is the recommended internet speed for onlive / ps4's gaikai / xbox one's potential cloud service? I am just curious.



landguy1 on 05 September 2013

As usual, a money grab. Don't blame either M$ or Sony, but it is a pain. If they can run PS360 games through the cloud, how can they not run an emulator right on the PS4/XB1? Because there is no Money in it for developer's and Sony/M$!



Jaywood2010 on 05 September 2013
landguy1 said:
As usual, a money grab. Don't blame either M$ or Sony, but it is a pain. If they can run PS360 games through the cloud, how can they not run an emulator right on the PS4/XB1? Because there is no Money in it for developer's and Sony/M$!


It drives up the costs on hardware.




       

pbroy on 05 September 2013

Meh... Not interested in cloud based backwards compatibility. Not with Xbox One or PS4. Would rather have an emulator on the console. Won't be using this.

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kupomogli on 05 September 2013

People should keep their older consoles. BC through the PS360 is a big deal since it's upscaling SD to HD, but when PS360 are already in HD, what's the big deal?   It's convenient having less consoles, but it's not needed.  Gaikai and the cloud will just eat away your bandwidth. 



landguy1 on 05 September 2013
JayWood2010 said:
landguy1 said:
As usual, a money grab. Don't blame either M$ or Sony, but it is a pain. If they can run PS360 games through the cloud, how can they not run an emulator right on the PS4/XB1? Because there is no Money in it for developer's and Sony/M$!


It drives up the costs on hardware.


I wasn't very clear, I meant software emulation.



Jaywood2010 on 05 September 2013
landguy1 said:
JayWood2010 said:
landguy1 said:
As usual, a money grab. Don't blame either M$ or Sony, but it is a pain. If they can run PS360 games through the cloud, how can they not run an emulator right on the PS4/XB1? Because there is no Money in it for developer's and Sony/M$!


It drives up the costs on hardware.


I wasn't very clear, I meant software emulation.

Needs hardware emulation along with software.  Your looking at an extra $50-$100 if they added them probably.




       

TheFallen on 05 September 2013
JayWood2010 said:
landguy1 said:
As usual, a money grab. Don't blame either M$ or Sony, but it is a pain. If they can run PS360 games through the cloud, how can they not run an emulator right on the PS4/XB1? Because there is no Money in it for developer's and Sony/M$!


It drives up the costs on hardware.



That and it complicates the design of the system. Yes in a perfect world we would have BC in all Next gen systems. I don't know anybody who would buy a PS4 specifically to play PS3 games, sure it would be a nice additional but it is what it is. Emulating a console takes a lot of horse power and it is made even more difficult when the architecture is different .

JoeTheBro on 05 September 2013
landguy1 said:
JayWood2010 said:
landguy1 said:
As usual, a money grab. Don't blame either M$ or Sony, but it is a pain. If they can run PS360 games through the cloud, how can they not run an emulator right on the PS4/XB1? Because there is no Money in it for developer's and Sony/M$!


It drives up the costs on hardware.


I wasn't very clear, I meant software emulation.


Cloud based bc is actually way more expensive for Sony to do than emulation. If it was just a money grab, they'd just do a repeat of PS2 digital games on ps3.



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