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Home News PS3 Retail And Digital Games Won't Work On PS4

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PS3 Retail And Digital Games Won't Work On PS4

Posted on Thursday, February 21 @ 13:47:22 Eastern by Alex_Osborn

Sorry PlayStation fans, but all of your PlayStation 3 content will not transfer to Sony's next-gen console.

In a roundtable chat following the event, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida confirmed that PlayStation 3 retail and digital games will not be playable on the PS4. All hope is not lost, however, as downloaded titles may one day be playable on the new hardware thanks to emulation.

While this is very much a possibility in the future, Mr. Yoshida made it clear that they're "not talking about [their] emulation plans as yet," going on to add that "there are two ways [to play legacy content]: emulation or cloud services [from Gaikai]. But native support [of digital games from PS3], no, sorry. It doesn’t work.”

So if you've got a bunch of PS3 discs laying around, cling to that console of yours with dear life.

Upset? Unfazed? Let us know in the comments below.

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  • SolidSevchinko78
    SolidSevchinko78
    Joined: Jun 2012
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 1:52 pm
    Could be remedied with a software update that adds software emulation. But I'm not surprised nor do I care because my PS3 will still be hooked up no matter what.
    0 3
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 2:25 pm
    My backlog will take me at least a console generation to get through.
    0 2
  • SolidSevchinko78
    SolidSevchinko78
    Joined: Jun 2012
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 3:37 pm
    You sound like me haha. I still have so many games to play still, plus several others are due to come out here shortly
    0 0
  • Zpyder
    Zpyder
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 1:55 am
    Exactly! I still have a ton of PS3 games to play and I won't be picking up a PS4 until I clear my backlog, if I could play PS3 games on the PS4 however, I might be more tempted to pick one up earlier
    0 1
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 2:00 pm
    This sucks. There's a bunch of PS3 games that I still want to play, and knowing Sony they'll probably never put out an emulator if it isn't in at launch. If the 720 is backwards compatible my decision for which console to get first just got a whole lot easier.
    0 2
  • uptown710
    uptown710
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 3:56 pm
    Going by how M$ handled BC with the 360 I'm going to say don't get your hopes up.
    0 0
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 2:28 pm
    Would be cool if they made it so I could play Heavy Rain on Gaikai through my pc.
    0 2
  • Sammo
    Sammo
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 7:22 pm
    This makes me sad. They keep making it so hard to play bushido blade.
    0 3
  • MasterRabbi
    MasterRabbi
    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 5:31 am
    All the likes. Bushido Blade was such an amazing game.
    0 0
  • BRostigraben
    BRostigraben
    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Feb 21st, 2013 at 8:24 pm
    I'm more annoyed than anything.
    0 0
  • ballabert
    ballabert
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013 at 5:55 am
    thats a let down but certainly not a deal breaker. i bet eventually they'll have something in place, they're sending all PSN members 10 bucks, I'm sure they'll get it so your PSN games will be playable
    0 0
  • DonRafael
    DonRafael
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Feb 23rd, 2013 at 7:00 pm
    The day I heard the new Ps3 models weren't going to play Ps2 games on it was the day the system died for me. Sony invented some lame excuse about it being too complicated.

    I don't think they do it because of hardware complications, but rather because they don't want the older stuff competing with the new stuff whilst forcing you to buy more than one Playstation.

    It's the same with the controllers: very little change about them, but you can't play some games with your white controller.
    0 0

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