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Rumor: PlayStation 4 Will Stream PS3 Games Via Cloud

Posted on Friday, February 15 @ 21:26:36 Eastern by Alex_Osborn

As February 20th draws incredibly close, more and more rumors regarding Sony's next-gen console are coming out of the woodwork. This time, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the PlayStation 4 will be able to stream games directly to the console.

This should hardly come as a surprise, especially in light of the fact that Sony shelled out a hefty lump of cash last year for the cloud gaming service Gaikai. This alleged next-gen streaming service will allow gamers to stream PlayStation 3 games directly to their console. The outlet also notes that the system will be able to play new games on optical discs.

Could this be Sony's master workaround in dealing with backwards compatibility? Could we see this functionality extend to the PlayStation Vita as well? Hopefully all of our burning questions will be answered this coming Wednesday. In the meantime, let us know what you think of Sony's supposed digital library chock-full of streamable PS3 games in the comments below.

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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 12:31 am
    Does the PS4 come with a free 1gbps internet connection?
    0 8
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 1:39 am
    I wonder how well Sony will do without all those Midwestern consumers still relying on dial up or with capped bandwidth. :-/
    0 2
  • reiandcoke
    reiandcoke
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 6:30 am
    In Canada my plan is 55 a month for 80 gigs. 2 dollars per gig after that but the overage caps at $100. It's awful. In my opinion it's only there to scare people away from netflix and similar services and funnel people through their own crappy pay-per-view services.
    0 0
  • Alex_Osborn
    Alex_Osborn
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 8:10 am
    Wow. That really is awful. :(
    0 1
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 7:21 am
    If it is like the PS3, then IT DOES EVERYTHING!
    0 1
  • Alex_Osborn
    Alex_Osborn
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 8:10 am
    Except cross-game chat. :P
    0 0
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 9:12 am
    And promptly alerting you of major hacks into their database of users personal information.
    0 1
  • cheesegod99
    cheesegod99
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 9:01 am
    So I have to repurchase all my PS3 games in a digital format to play them on PS4? Yeah, no thanks.
    0 2
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 9:17 am
    Doc can you say: "Get a PC gaming rig"?
    0 0
  • cheesegod99
    cheesegod99
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 11:52 am
    Bah, I am making do just fine with my 5 year old macbook pro.
    0 0
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 2:04 pm
    Took the words from my mouth.
    0 0
  • omega711
    omega711
    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 10:11 am
    great idea, america is in a fiber optic revolution, so by the time that tech takes off, most people won't have an issue with it. i definitely don't like the idea of buying my ps3 games again though.
    0 0
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 3:44 pm
    I wouldn't quite say that just yet. There's still lots of smaller towns and cities that don't have high speed internet compared to major cities since ISPs are too cheap to offer better internet to people who don't live in a major city.
    0 1
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Feb 16th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
    I guess most of us are spoiled with unlimited data and all we have to pay for is bandwidth. I pay $32 a month for 15mbp/s and unlimited data.
    0 1
  • omega711
    omega711
    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Feb 17th, 2013 at 10:21 am
    if i had to pay for data, i would not be able to afford internet. all the things i download, would put me in the poor house in a month
    0 0

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