"GTA4" is one of the most popular GTA games, with a dark style and real physical model, its popularity is no less than "GTA5".
But I believe many players have a question: Why is there no such game on PS4?
According to the official website of R star , "GTA4" was released in April 2008, and the platforms are PS3, Xbox One , PC and Xbox 360 .
This is very strange, Xbox One is the previous generation console, the competitor is PS4, but the latter does not have "GTA4". It stands to reason that the performance of the two hosts is similar. Is it because the relationship between R Star and Sony is not good?
Sony officially did not give an explanation, but some netizens explained on the Q&A website Quora: PS4 does not have backward compatibility, so PS3 games cannot be played. In contrast, Xbox One is backward compatible.
According to the official Xbox website, the next-generation Xbox is currently backward compatible with 4628 games, including 3799 Xbox one games, 477 Xbox360 games, and 38 first-generation Xbox games.
So, why is PS4 not backward compatible?
Overseas game editor Bryan Finck wrote that PS2 and the original PS3 are both backward compatible, but the cost of doing so is very high, causing Sony to lose money every time it sells a console, so the second generation of PS3 Give up this function.
When Sony was developing PS4, it hoped to solve the backward compatibility problem through the cloud game .So they released PS Now, , which is a subscription service that can play PS3 or PS2 games in the cloud.
In other words, there is no "GTA4" on PS4, which is probably related to backward compatibility, and behind it is Sony's strategic difference. If R Star wants to launch "GTA4" on PS4, it must develop a remake, but the focus of R Star is "GTA5" and "GTAOL".
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