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PlayStation 4 Teardown

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  • The Blu-ray/DVD drive is our next target, held in place by a couple screws.

  • Unfortunately, the PS4 is NOT backward-compatible with PS3, PS2 or PS1 games. This drive may spin your old discs, but it won't play them.

  • Oddly enough, it won't play music CDs, either, although this appears to be a mere software limitation that Sony plans to fix in a later update.

  • But who needs an optical drive at all anymore, now that we've harnessed the power of the cloud?

  • That being the case, Sony plans to launch a game-streaming service in 2014 powered by Gaikai tech, which will let you play PS3 games on a PS4. All the processing will be done ‘in the cloud’ by Sony’s servers, with just the video transmitted to your actual console.

  • That's all well and good, but let's get down to what we really care about: Can we play Crash Bandicoot?

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