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Do new consoles play old games?
Jemcrystal
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Does XboxOne play Xbox360 games? Does PS4 play PS3 games?
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Not natively. The architectures are too different, and it would take more than just recompiling code to get playable performance. It is possible to port a game, of course, which is why some games are released for both new consoles and old consoles--and also for PC. But the Xbox 360 and PS3 had capable enough hardware that you can't really hope to make many of their games playable by simple emulation as you could with, say, SNES games on modern hardware.
What they've talked about doing, though I'm not sure if they've done it yet, is to support old games by streaming the video. Loosely, Sony would have a bunch of PS3s that can play PS3 games natively, and if you want to play one on a PS4, you push buttons on your controller, it would send that over the Internet to a PS3, the game renders an image, it sends that image back over the Internet to your PS4, and displays it on your TV screen. Latency is a huge problem with that for most games, though, so it won't be nearly as good as playing it on an actual PS3.
http://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/psnow/
If you want to pay a rental fee per game or a monthly sub for all their games they stream yes, but you cant take your existing ps3 games and throw the disc in a ps4.
no and paying for streaming is not worth it. If you really want to play games from older generation consoles (like me) try and find a cheap used in good condition older console and buy your games. They will be yours forever. Technology is not perfect enough to stream a game and have the same experience as owning it. Plus its cheaper to just own them.
Last time I checked, they still sell the Xbox 360 and PS3... so if it's only a hardware issue that's annoying you... why not get a new version of the same... and they are so less pricey too. Then you get more time to play your old games.
My PS3 bricked on me a few months back and I opted to repurchase a PS3 rather than a PS4 or Xbox One. My catalog of unplayed/unfinished PS3 games has far more value than what the new generation offers. I even think I'd rather have the ability to replay my old PS3 games than to play anything on a new generation console...
True, if people want to play old PS3 and XBOX360 games, then they need to have those consoles, the new ones just can't do it. As for PSNOW, its a bit too much like Onlive, utter failure in that they actually look worse and run worse than if you had them on the old consoles
Right now about the only 'next gen' console that has a decent amount of games on it, is probably the Wii U.. Kind of sad really, nothing really has appeared on the next gen consoles yet, that wasn't also on PC and/or on the previous console generation. And what games do make it, seem to struggle with frame rates. I sometimes think that the biggest problem with the next gen consoles, is that by the time they hit the shops, they had last generation hardware, well even older now but, already they need some serious upgrades.
What makes it worse is that quite often now, the lack of decent hardware on consoles is holding back games development for PC, because they try to make games that fit on the consoles too, which means often we're lucky if a game will not only run at a minimum of 1080, but also exceed 30 fps by more than 20fps. Makes you wonder if Consoles are not in fact a very bad thing for the evolution of games technologies
We've been saying this for the past 3 generations now. It was particularly bad in the last (360/PS3) generation, and that's probably the biggest reason why we've been stuck in DX9 for so very long, and it took a new generation of consoles to really start any momentum at all to a newer graphics standard.
It's actually very simple, I have done it already dozens of times. I am actually playing ps3 on xb1 as well.
1. Put the xbox 1 on a shelf
2. Put the ps3 or xbox 360 on top of the xb1
3. Start playing
Not sure what all the fuss is about