Heres a possible idea sony

[flarty]

So the ps4 will not have backwards compatibility. If the cell ran at 3.2ghz, sata3.0/usb3.0/Thunderbird all apparently run at 4.8 Gbit/s and above.
Could you not make an add on peripheral that connected to the system via sata3.0/usb3.0/Thunderbird and let the public decide if they want backwards compatibility. It would keep the initial cost down and I'm sure people would be than willing to pick one up later down the line.

What you all think? Anyone with any technical knowledge knows if this is plausible?

 

[ThriKreen]

I doubt those interfaces have the bandwidth required for PS3 compatibility, short of rendering on the addon device and streaming it - but then you're probably better off having an actual PS3 and hooking it up directly to the TV at that point.

Software emulation is possible, but might be problematic with the hardware changes from PS3 to PS4.

However, given what I've seen with the PSN, their idea of backwards compatibility seems to be to offer digital downloads of games - Street Fighter, Odin Sphere, etc. My hope is that the porting guys are smart enough to design the library to support not just porting PS2 to PS3, but abstract the interface so the game doesn't care what the target platform is, much like how DirectX operates.

 

[Smooth Operator]

You mean sell a stripped old console on top for the price of the full old console, like MS is doing?
Well yeah they could make it work but that takes extra work and it makes very little sense, especially since they invested into a streaming service and that would keep you away from it... generally that is not what a company wants to do.

 

[flarty]

You mean sell a stripped old console on top for the price of the full old console, like MS is doing?
Well yeah they could make it work but that takes extra work and it makes very little sense, especially since they invested into a streaming service and that would keep you away from it... generally that is not what a company wants to do.

Where's Microsoft doing that?