PS Plus: Free Games for July 2015

because the system is 20 months old. we’ve reached the point that 1 retail + 1 indie is expected. this lineup is vastly inferior to what games with gold put out this month (ac4:bf/so many me for x1, plants vs zombies/gears of war 3 for x360), and it’s vastly inferior to what sony of japan put out to celebrate the 5 years of ps+ (guilty gear xrd for ps4, batman arkham origins for ps3, and cheap subscription deals).

compared to what everyone else is doing, the lineup put forth by sony of america/europe is a joke.

@nevereatpie

the point that your sarcastic post overlooks is that you are praising giving out games that people wouldn’t be interested in enough to actually buy own their own rather than games that people actually see and think “i want that!”.

@jgrizzle

“Impossible. PS3 architecture is incompatible with PS4. Anyone who knows anything about computers and graphics can tell you that”

and anyone who knows anything about computers and graphics can tell you that the x360 and x1 had completely different architecture. this is why the x1 (x86-64 architecture) is handling backwards compatibility of the x360 (powerpc architecture) through emulation.

if the ps4 is powerful enough to emulate the ps3 is debatable (don’t forget, a professional team of coders with access to all the schematics and documentation for both the machine the emulator would run on and the machine they are trying to emulate is going to have a much better chance than a hobbyist who has to reverse engineer the ps3), but you clearly don’t seem to know what you are talking about.

@jgrizzle

the fact that the x360 didn’t use a cell processor is irrelevant. what matters is that the x360 and x1 used different architectures, and to make it work, the old system had to be emulated in software.

there is no “cheating the system” in the x1’s backwards compatibility. the game runs in an emulator, because the cpu architecture is different so it doesn’t work natively.

as far as the cell not being emulated yet on pc, you are overlooking a very important detail. you are talking about what hobbyists have been able to do thusfar. they have to reverse engineer the chip to figure out how it functions so that they can know how to build their emulator. this is a HUGE undertaking that people are doing in their spare time.

for sony to do it, they already have all of the documentation for how the chip works, which is a huge advantage. additionally, they can put a team of professionals working on it full time. sony has a huge advantage over pc hobbyists when it comes to making a ps3 emulator.

@benoit

wrong. as i said, the x1 and ps4 operate on the same exact licensing model. you lose gold/ps+, you lose your gwg/igc games.