Sony plans PS4 streaming of PS3 games, says Wall Street Journal

As was whispers' wont this week, yet another rumor centering on Sony's PS4 surfaced late Friday.

This one comes by way of the Wall Street Journal, which reported that Sony plans to utilize Gaikai, a company it acquired with game streaming capabilities, to stream existing PS3 games to the new console.

Why not new games? Those will apparently come on an optical disc.

Sony has allowed for backwards compatibility before with its older consoles - gamers could pop a game disc from a PS1 game into a PS3 console - the new ARM x86 processors reportedly housed within the new PlayStation won't allow for the cross-generational play.

Gaikai is a cloud-streaming service that streams video games over the internet, much in the same way as movies and music are available, according to the company's website. Sony bought the company in July 2012.

Counting down the days

This week we've had two prototype pictures of the PS4's trackpad controller leak, while last Friday we heard word that the entire console would go for about US$428.

Typically when there's this much smoke before an event, finding the source of the fire is never far behind, so we certainly expect to see the PS4 come Wednesday.

Of course, nothing is a guarantee, so you'll just have to tune back into TechRadar to see how Feb. 20 all plays out.

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