Looks like the reports that the PS4 won't be backwards compatible with PS3 games is only half true. According to the WSJ, you won't be able to stick your old discs in, but the PS4 will be able to stream old PS3 games instead, like a PlayStation-only OnLive. Read More >>
Featured comment by bandito67:
"Unless it is dead!!! Then what. I was not going to she'll out good money for old tech. This will turn me off Sony for good." More »
According to the Nvidia's cloud gaming boss, the Nintendo Wii U and the next-gen successors to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 could very well be the last of home consoles gracing consumers, as cloud gaming ramps up, brings down latency and could very well be the future of home gaming. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jammin500:
"well screw it then.. sometimes i like to disconnect, no matter how fast our bandwidth grows our content grows to fill it.. there will always be issues..." More »
Sony gaming division's explanation of its £242m purchase of Gaikai is that it'll be creating some sort of "cloud-based interactive entertainment service," although it seems much more likely it'll eventually be used to offer a form of backward-compatibility with older PlayStation titles whenever Sony gets around to launching PS4. Read More >>
Featured comment by The_Alpha_Gamer:
"Imagine if they used it to stream PS2 games straight to the Vita. It'd be the greatest console the world has ever seen!" More »