Rumor: PlayStation 4 Will Feature PS3 Game Streaming

[Lord_Jaroh]

Forgive my ignorance here, but how is this a hardware problem and not software?

I mean, if I have upgraded the hardware on my pc and an old game ceased to work, I tend to find that getting new drivers and/or patching the game fixes it. Never had to add the old cpu/gfx/ram to the current stuff to get it to work.

Also, since my PS2 broke and my PS3 didn't have compatibility I ended up downloading an emulator for pc, it's not perfect and not every game works but it wasn't made by sony and the installer was like 9mb large. Are you telling me Sony couldn't do a better job if they tried?

Hell, Microsoft provides an xp emulator for win7, so it can't be that hard. can't it?

It's not that it's hard, it's that there is no money in it. Sony is a business, and businesses are in it to make money, not to be altruistic, and this way they can re-sell you all your old games, again and again. They become their own "Gamestop" without allowing you to trade in your old games. It's win-win for them and lose all-round for the consumer. They are banking on most people being too stupid or too uncaring to realize or fight against it.

That they (along with most modern corporations) are a short-sighted business is besides the point.

 

[porous_shield]

As an Australian I hear the words "Streaming" paired with "Gaming" and reflexively prepare myself to be disappointed and left out.

You're not the only one. I live in a rural part of Canada and my internet speed is often not fast enough to have a voice conversation over so I can't imagine ever stream a game through it.

I would be interested in buying a PS4 for backwards capability but not this streaming crap. I never owned a PS3 so being able to pick up a PS4 and play those games I missed plus new ones would be appealing. Streaming games just doesn't work for me.

How expensive would the games be on Gaikai? When a new console comes out the older console games become dirt cheap along with the older console itself so why would anyone want to stream games with all the disadvantages it brings?

 

[grigjd3]

This has terrible written all over it. Sony can't manage a server to save their lives.

 

[shintakie10]

Forgive my ignorance here, but how is this a hardware problem and not software?

I mean, if I have upgraded the hardware on my pc and an old game ceased to work, I tend to find that getting new drivers and/or patching the game fixes it. Never had to add the old cpu/gfx/ram to the current stuff to get it to work.

Also, since my PS2 broke and my PS3 didn't have compatibility I ended up downloading an emulator for pc, it's not perfect and not every game works but it wasn't made by sony and the installer was like 9mb large. Are you telling me Sony couldn't do a better job if they tried?

Hell, Microsoft provides an xp emulator for win7, so it can't be that hard. can't it?

Its a hardware issue because Sony decided they wanted to be special and instead of usin hardware that was logical and in line with everythin else the competition was doin they went with Cell. If it had worked out it would have been a huge step forward for consoles. Unfortunately its a piece of crap thats difficult to code for and completely screws up any chance of backwards compatibility for the PS2.

Surprise surprise, this decade (includin guessed time of development) old decision has come back to bite them in the ass yet again for the PS4.

 

[Milanezi]

Neat But I never played a game via stream, I saw movies in HD via Apple TV but I think it's hardly the same, movies are easier to stream (right? I'm not sure) and even then at times I suffer lol

However, unless Sony comes thunder roaring ahead of X360, I'll stick with Microsoft. I had both consoles, but fact is I own trillions of 360 games and only a handful of PS3 titles, namely some exclusives, so I'd rather stick with MS... Not to mention I truly think it was better, but I'll admit, only at time it was really better, most of the times it was the same quality. Currently my PS3 broke, I'm not getting another one, not when they're about to reveal PS4, it'd be stupid.

Exclusivity pisses me off: I LOVE Gears of War, but I also LOVE God of War and Metal Gear Solid... Anyone feel my drama?

 

[Milanezi]

Um... why not just, you know, ACTUALLY MAKE YOUR CONSOLE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE? Sony, I get that you are pretty bad when it comes to user convinence and customer service, but you have to actually be trying to be this bad.

However, this could work if you put a PS3 game in and it either installed the game on your hard drive or read the game and gave you a downloadable copy for free.

I agree, but both MS and Sony tried it, Sony more than once, it never works efficiently

 

[mrmark77]

Um... why not just, you know, ACTUALLY MAKE YOUR CONSOLE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE?

You've got to be kidding. Why should any time, resources or money be put towards making PS4 play PS3 games, just so people who already have a PS3 can use one less HDMI port, or have a bit more space, or even sell their PS3?

I would prefer all resources, time and money to be spent towards making the PS4 being as good a console as possible - for PS4 games, nothing else.

As has been said, if one wants backwards compatibility, then keep the PS3.

I don't want any of the PS4 compromised, just to play out of date games that were made for a different console - a console that most of the people (who are wanting backwards compatibility) already own!