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It's the morning after the night before, and Sony Worldwide Studios presidentShuhei Yoshida has just confirmed to us that current-generation PSN titles won't transfer across to the PlayStation 4. The company admitted last night that PS3 games wouldn't be compatible with the latest console, but has added that it will try to make titles playable "in some form." Because the architecture of the Power-PC-based PS3 and x86-based PlayStation 4 are so different, Sony will only bring across games that don't guzzle the latest console's power in emulation. The executive also said that the company aims to offer server-side and cloud services to offer a wider library of older games, but said that's one for the "longer term."

that WAS in the conference >_>

Cant have your downloadable titles that you allready bought on PS4?

How odd. At least give the option to redownload them for free.

wow so games you buy on the ps3 you wont be able to download on your ps4 that cant doesnt have BC and cant even play them? fuck thats a deal breaker.

What was all that talk last night about playing all prior games from ps2 to ps1 and so on.

How do you play them? Do you have to buy them from psn per game? Or do you get access to them all and can play them all you want for say a monthly PSN+ account?


But as to your OP, dang that's a shame and seems dumb, why would psn games not transfer to ps4?

Yup, all of this was in the conference. A lot of people seem to have missed some of the key points being discussed.

That was in the conference. It makes sense really.If they want to change and adapt, they can't be limited to the ideal of making every system have backwards compatibility. There will come a time when you don't see it in Xbox or Wii as well. That or we will be spending close to $1000 for our systems.

The reason for this is simple and eventually solvable. They have to redo all the games emulation package and that will probably be the same slow process that the original rollout of PS1 games were. We already have two good consoles to use for these games, the PS3 and the Vita. While I would much rather they get these games all ready for launch, the fact is it sounds like they wont and it might be some time before Gaikai will have these games. Sad but not really a deal breaker for me. What I think needs to get done sooner rather than later is PS3 through Gaikai.

This stings, the first mark against this console for me. I hope they focus on emulating the PS+ games first, as that is where the loyal customers lie.

Isn't that what Gaikai should be there for? Odd decision.