New generation of consoles, but it appears we’ll be getting old generation ports, and why not? Who wouldn’t want to play Halo, Last of us, GTA and Uncharted on our shiny new consoles…
Well Uncharted might just happen according to Sony President Shuhei Yoshida:
“Almost 50 per cent of people who have purchased a PS4 didn’t own a PS3, and that’s lots of people that missed exclusive PS3 titles like The Last of Us, so it’s a great way to welcome those people back to PlayStation, saying this is what you missed.”
There are other ways Sony is allowing PS4 owners to catch up on the PlayStation back catalogue – such as PlayStation Now, the streaming service that’s going into beta this summer – but are there other remasters that offer 1080p, 60fps experiences being considered?
“There are requests from some consumers for games that were released later in the generation, like Uncharted, which people might have missed,” says Yoshida. “That would be a good candidate. We don’t want to flood the market with remade games either.”
Source – http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-09-how-strong-exactly-is-playstations-2014-line-up
– Murr
All well and good as long as they don’t focus too much on remasters. The other 50% such as myself who do have a PS3 want shiny new games that do leverage the power of the next gen consoles, not just a few rejigged textures and higher framerates!
That said, Uncharted is a good example of a classic franchise that everyone should play, so it’s understandable. As long as they are still planning an Uncharted 4 for the PS4 then it’s all good!