

Ps4 backwards compatibility upgrade#
How to Upgrade or Replace Your PS4 and PS4 Pro Hard Drive.3) Sony doesnt want to admit inferiority in the backwards compatible department by lacking physical options. 2) Sony can make more money by charging again. How to Play PS4 Games (and God of War) on PC 1) Many Sony diehards insist backwards compatibility isnt needed or welcome.How To Upgrade or Replace Your PS4 Pro Hard Drive.How to Transfer Data and Saves From a PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 4 Pro.It doesn’t work.” Gaikai and Cloud Streamingīased off of statements made at Sony's PS4 reveal event, it is believed that Sony will be using Gaikai's capabilities to provide access to games from previous PlayStation consoles through Gaikai's cloud streaming capabilities. In short, “There are two ways : emulation or cloud services. But we’re not talking about our emulation plans as yet.” And the easiest thing, technically, would be to make PSone games work on PS4 with emulation. But for now, downloaded PS3 games won’t work “unless, somehow, some games work on emulation. Indeed, the Gaikai presentation during PlayStation 4’s reveal touched on this “everything, everywhere” mentality. Yoshida concedes that this is possible for PlayStation 4 supporting legacy PlayStation consoles as well. The PlayStation 3 doesn’t read PlayStation 2 discs (at least not anymore), but it can play PS2 games via the PlayStation Store in an emulated environment. In other words, your PS3 discs won’t work in the new console nor will the games you downloaded. "In a roundtable conversation with journalists, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios noted that PS3 games of both the retail and downloadable variety will not be compatible with PlayStation 4, at least not natively.

In a roundtable with journalists after the PlayStation 4 reveal, Sony's Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, elaborated further on the question of backwards compatibility.
