Will Ps4 Games Play On A Ps3

If you've been a loyal PlayStation gamer since the early days, then you may be wondering whether the PlayStation 4 tin play PlayStation 3 games.

The answer is a qualified… "sort of". You certainly won't take any joy running your PS3 copy of Batman Arkham Asylum by popping the disk in the drive, only Sony does take options for some PS3 games…

How to play PS3 games on PS4

PlayStation At present

Long before Nvidia'south GeForce Now and Google Stadia, in that location was a games streaming service called OnLive. It was about x years alee of its time, but when information technology collapsed, Sony bought the underlying technology and another streaming company called Gakai.

These would somewhen become PlayStation Now, a subscription service that lets you stream PS2, PS3 and PS4 titles straight to your current console in 720p – in other words, a bit blurry for modern games, but probably just equally you remember the majority of PS2 and PS3 ones.

There are over 650 games bachelor to stream, and so far from the full catalogue, but you might find the title y'all want in there. A subscription costs £viii.99 per month, but you can become a calendar week's complimentary trial to see if y'all can cope with the latency involved.

Which PS3 games are available on the PS4? Remastered games…

If the game y'all're looking to play is a real classic from the era, there'south a good chance that the money spinners in publishing have rereleased information technology for PS4, generally in the form of a remaster.

The quality of the touchups varies wildly, merely if you just want the game to run on your PlayStation 4 and then you could practice a whole lot worse. The list of PS3 remasters includes:

Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection

Batman: Return to Arkham

Burnout Paradise: Remastered

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

Bioshock: The Collection

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

Darksiders: Warmastered Edition

Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition

Dark Souls: Remastered

Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition

God of War iii: Remastered

Yard Theft Automobile V

Injustice: Gods Amid Us Ultimate Edition

LA Noire

Metro Redux

Okami Hd

Heavy Rain/Beyond: Ii Souls

Star Ocean: The Concluding Hope

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition

The Terminal of Us Remastered

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Drove

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered

WipEout Omega Collection

The time to come?

At that place are definitely gaps in that location, and y'all might just have to seize with teeth the bullet and buy an one-time PS3 to get your set up if you're not covered above. Still, they seem to go around the £50-£100 marker on Ebay at the time of writing, so not completely unreasonable.

The practiced news is that this shouldn't be a problem with the upcoming PlayStation 5, which Sony says will support the "overwhelming majority" of PS4 games. So no need to flog your games collection when Sony releases it at the stop of the yr…