Post: Current PSN purchases will not work on PS4 at launch
07-27-2013, 11:01 PM #1
xNIGHTMAREM0DZx
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Shuhei Yoshida, President of Worldwide Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment has recently replied to a user on Twitter regarding a question over current Playstation 3,Vita and DLC content purchased via the Playstation store.

So this means that all those purchases you have made previously will not work on Playstation 4, well at least at launch anyways. We kind of already knew this but there was a small part of me that hoped Sony would have it worked out for launch. Maybe the cloud streaming service that Sony recently acquired will be able to store this content and allow you to have backwards compatibility this way.

It has been previously confirmed that the streaming cloud based service from Gaikai will hit Playstation 3 and Playstation 4 sometime in 2014. It’s currently unknown whether your current game library will have to be purchased again in order to use the service, or if a discount scheme will be offered for games you already own. Does this mean that we will have to wait till next year for backwards compatibility? Many consumers could be very fond of their current generation consoles and will probably be won’t be willing to trade them in just yet, so we can’t really see the wait for backwards compatibility being a big issue.

What do you think about PSN purchases not working on the PS4, Is backwards compatibility important to you?

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Isaac Clarke
07-27-2013, 11:35 PM #2
Soldier.
The Legend
It's not that much of problem for me, I'll just keep my ps3 but I doubt I'll even play it anyway.
07-28-2013, 12:15 AM #3
SeeNoKey
Can’t trickshot me!
Same here Happy
07-28-2013, 12:47 AM #4
xKtF
In my man cave
Will our wallets stay the same?
07-28-2013, 01:21 AM #5
Khemz
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Originally posted by INFINITYCLz View Post
Will our wallets stay the same?


Thanks for this info & this is a very good question where does my money in the wallet go?
07-28-2013, 07:22 PM #6
spark32
I’m too L33T
I wonder if a PS3 game is available through that cloud gaming service, if you put the PS3 disc in your PS4 it will let you play it through the cloud service.
07-28-2013, 11:40 PM #7
Isaac Clarke
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im glad i already have ps+. so, i can upload my save to the cloud & download them. just the saves that are locked.
07-29-2013, 03:17 AM #8
amplif1er
Why are you reading this?
Originally posted by spark32 View Post
I wonder if a PS3 game is available through that cloud gaming service, if you put the PS3 disc in your PS4 it will let you play it through the cloud service.

Not possible it has to be ported to work on ps4 architecture either way
07-29-2013, 04:29 AM #9
onasis
Save Point
well let's hope that in the future, PS3 purchased in PSN can play in PS4. For now, let's stick it to PS3.. SmileSmileSmile
07-29-2013, 07:42 AM #10
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Originally posted by amplif1er View Post
Not possible it has to be ported to work on ps4 architecture either way


Not entirely true. You can throw a ps3 disk in your PC's bluray drive and it will read the disk you just can't do much of anything with it. If they really wanted to they could use that as a form of authentication.

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