gaikai

Gaikai in the US come 2014, Europe in 2015

The latest rumored dates for the Playstation 4 to receive Gaikai streaming support are 2014 for North America and 2015 for Europe, according to “inside sources“. Sony’s cloud streaming tech is supposed to enter beta testing early next year before being officially rolled out in the US later that year, with Europe to follow. The […]

Microsoft working on backwards compatibility solution

We all know that Sony is implementing a form of backwards compatibility in the PS4 by way of its Gaikai service, which will basically let you stream PS3 games down to your PS4 and play them that way. To be clear there will be no hardware based backwards compatibility. So what’s Microsoft going to do? […]

Sony to launch PS3 game library for Gaikai in 2014

While the Playstation 4 is not natively backwards compatible, Sony has long said that you will be able to stream (and play) PS3 games on your PS4 using its Gaikai cloud-gaming service. Well just last week at the Tokyo Game Show, Shuhei Yoshida announced that the first batch of streamable Playstation 3 games will soon […]

Xbox One could be backwards compatible in the future

Backwards compatibility is a big deal for a lot of gamers. After all, who wants to upgrade to a new console and lose their entire games collection? Sure, they could sell the old system, but a lot of gamers still enjoy playing those games, no matter how old they are. By being forced to keep […]