More PS4 Details Surface: PlayStation 4 To Use Gaikai Cloud Services


Submitted by UnashamedVandal; February 18, 2013

With rumours floating around the internet about Sony's next generation console, fans are starting to wonder what exactly the console will be capable of.

Well, we know that it will be able to play PlayStation 3 games...that's a start. According to reports (confirmed by Wall Street Journal), Sony's PlayStation 4 console will use cloud streaming services supplied by Gaikai to make their up and coming console backward compatible.

 

As simple as it sounds with improved hardware, the emulation of PS3 games on the PS4 could prove extremely difficult and by following the cloud method, Sony will be able to overcome this.

 

Sony may have considered this a possibility over 7 months ago, when they purchased Gaikai for approximately $380 million back in July 2012. This will be great news for many PlayStation fans that are still bitter about their PS2 games collecting dust, because unless you had an original 60GB model of the PS3, PS2 games were pretty much a no go zone for the console.

 

Let me know your thoughts.


Tags: 3, 4, backwards, Cloud, Compatible, console, Gaikai, Games, PlayStation, PS3, PS4, services, Sony



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# RE: More PS4 Details Surface: PlayStation 4 To Use Gaikai Cloud Services — StainedPupil 2013-02-18 12:23
Could they make the backward compatibilty by streaming my game from my PS3 to my PS4 via my local network? Because if they plan on streaming it over the Internet from their servers, it will hit the broadband internet deployment wall for many users outside Japan. A crappy ISP will obviously have repercussion on the perception of PS4 capabilities.

I mean, I'm on the best ISP in Quebec, but PS3 wifi is already crappy enough...

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# derp — wait wut 2013-02-18 13:22
How does this work? You put in your PS3 game and it detects it, or if you bought it on PSN you can play it via cloud? PS+ only? lolwut

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# Australia not ready for cloud play — Xebozone 2013-02-19 04:24
Australia's internet is not up to the standard that America and most of the other 1st world countries have. We pay a fortune for downloads, and at comparatively low speeds.

Streaming a game in HD sounds very expensive, if not impossible for most.

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