Can I play PS3 games on PS4?

The PlayStation 4 disc drive and hardware can't read PS2 or PS3 discs, so the easiest way to access your favorite old games is to use a PlayStation Plus Extra or Deluxe membership. The Extra tier provides access to the Game Catalog, which includes some PS4 titles.
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Can I use PS3 games on PS4?

Can the PS4 Play PS3 Games? The short answer is no, the PlayStation 4 is not backward-compatible with PlayStation 3 games. Inserting a PS3 disc into the PS4 will not work. And you cannot download digital versions of PS3 games from the PlayStation Store onto your PlayStation 4.
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Can PS3 games be played on PS5?

While the PS5 cannot play PS3 discs directly, a selection of PS3 games can be played digitally. This works via a PS Plus Premium subscription, which costs £13.49 per month, £39.99 per quarter or £119.99 per year. Once an internet connection is established, numerous PS3 games can then be streamed to the PS5 console.
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Can a PS3 and PS4 play games together?

From PS3 to 4 there is no cross-play and neither of you will display as “online" while on opposite consoles. You CAN play certain PS4 and PS5 games together. (Although you may need the same version.)
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Is PS3 backwards compatible?

The original 60GB and 20GB launch models are backward compatible with PS2 games because they have PS2 chips. Other models, most notably the 80GB Metal Gear Solid PS3, used emulation software to be backward compatible but no longer support PS2 games.
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Why did PS3 stop backwards compatibility?

It's likely due to costs. It was horrendously expensive to make the PS3 with the PS2 backwards compatibility. So they eventually try to take out as much as they can to keep the cost down. Sure, they could eventually have had made a way to try and add it back in but they never did (kind of wish they did though).
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Which Playstations are backwards compatible?

The PlayStation®5 console is backward compatible with the overwhelming majority of PlayStation®4 games. That means an amazing collection of thousands of PS4™ games can be played on your PS5™ console.
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Can I play PS1 games on PS4?

The PS4 will never be able to browse or play PS1 discs or CD-ROMs. The PS4 will only be able to play PS1 games through PS Now subscription in which a collection of standard games is there to stream and download. PS2 games work on the PS4, however, they run as PS2 classics.
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Can you play PS3 games on PS2?

IsItBullshit: you can play PS3 games on a PS2 by plugging in a 4-gig flash drive and then inputting “triangle, triangle, square, circle, X” while holding down all four trigger buttons on a PS2 controller at the “disk read error” screen after inserting a PS3 game in a PS2.
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Can a jailbroken PS4 play PS3 games?

Unfortunately, the PS3 architecture is too complex to be emulated in hardware like the PS4 or PS5 (not to mention that most of the PS3 games source codes are lost, rendering a port to x86 architecture way too expensive or even impossible).
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Why won't PS5 play PS3 games?

The PS3 is an incredibly complicated system and it's for this reason emulation of its games are supremely difficult. Having the PS5 support PS3 games would be a costly exercise for Sony and one not worth the added investment.
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Can PS5 play PS2 discs?

The PS5 can play DVDs, which is most of the PS2 games were on, and Blu-Ray players can read CDs, so Sony would need to just give us a software update to do so.
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How do I transfer games from PS3 to PS4?

Switch to the PS4 and log in to the PlayStation Store. Scroll the left bar down to PS3 to PS4. Select your game, then add to cart, being sure to check that the price differential is correct. Select Purchase and your transfer will be complete.
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Can you play Blu Ray on PS4?

Your PS4™ system must enable the disc playback feature over the Internet, one time only, before you can play any BDs or DVDs. After this feature is enabled, your PS4™ system doesn't have to connect to the Internet to play BDs or DVDs.
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What happens if you put a PS2 disc in a PS3?

While you can usually just pop the PS2 disc into a compatible PS3 and start playing without issues, some PS2 games have known compatibility problems. This is more common if you have a CECHCxx (60 GB) or CECHExx (80 GB) model, which use partial software emulation instead of full hardware backwards compatibility.
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What can a jailbroken PS3 do?

Advantages of Jailbreaking
  • Free PS3 Games.
  • Use Emulators - Meaning you can play games from Sega, Nintendo, Gameboy, Atari, etc.
  • Read movies and games off of an external harddrive.
  • Mod/Hack any game (RTM Tools, Mod menus, etc.)
  • Freedom to personalize and customize the interface.
  • Copy and backup disc games on your Harddrive.
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Can you play PS1 games on PS3?

Every PS3 model can play PS1 games. It was PS2 compatibility that was removed. PS1 is done via the POPS emulator, even from disc, as it is the Virtual Game Station emulator for PowerPC that Sony bought from Connectix. Every single PS3 can play PS1 games from disc.
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Can you put PS2 disc in PS4?

Not because the PS4 is physically incapable of reading it, but because Sony doesn't want to allow it. There was an old firmware that was capable of being cracked to play old PS2 games. It's basically impossible to get that firmware, so don't bother trying. No new PS4 will be able to be cracked to do so.
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Can PS5 read PS3 discs?

As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, the PlayStation 5 is not natively compatible with physical PS3 game discs. Sony has implemented backward compatibility for certain PS4 games on the PS5 but has not extended that support to PS3 games via physical discs.
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Can you play Twisted Metal on PS4?

This title has been converted from the PlayStation® version to the PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®5 consoles and provides newly added features. Consequently, there may be times where the title plays differently from the PlayStation® version, or where some features may cause the title to not function properly.
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How many PS3 games are backwards compatible on PS4?

It has been officially confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will not support PlayStation 3 games natively. This means that any retail (i.e. disc-based) or digitally downloaded games from the Playstation Network will not be playable on the new console due to the x86 architecture.
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Why aren t PS3 games compatible with PS4?

1: Architecture and Hardware Differences

The primary reason why PS3 games are not compatible with PS4 lies in the fundamental architectural and hardware differences between the two consoles.
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Why does PS4 not have backwards compatibility?

Why doesn't the PS4 have backwards compatibility for PS3 games? The problem is between cost and performance. Cost: They would need to run a ps3 chip in the ps4 which would be much more expensive. They did this with the ps2 and 3.
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