how long intel the current systems are discontinued?

now that on both ps4 and xbox one rent games on a limited level who will sell more systems on openin

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David Beider

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recently Microsoft announced that all support and games will end by 2016 so i ask does anyone know if sony made a similar announcement for the PS3? the sony ps3 you only have up to 6.1 for formats which start with the words dolby or dts for blu-ray or DVD and if your movie needs 7.1 channel audio the only way you going to get it is in a format some call LPCM or Linear PCM so will the PS4 have this same issue if anyone knows? finally will it support 4k upscaling for blu-ray and 4k playback for blu-ray movies with the 4k logo?
 
There hasn't been much revealed in the way of Move titles. There's no indication of when they will stop producing or supporting older consoles. If last console cycle is any indication, the PS2 was discontinued LONG after the launch of the PS3, so expect to see the last generation hang around for a few more years.

Both consoles are not backwards compatible for a lot of reasons that make sense. The first is mostly because they use a different hardware architecture (most notably the processor) than the previous consoles, which means they would have to drive up the cost of the console to add software or hardware emulation for the previous generation hardware. The benefit to this change of hardware is that they're more like PCs now, so that porting games back and forth between console and desktop PCs will be a lot more seamless.

This is also why Sony is moving to the online streaming of PS3 games at a later date, so that you get pseudo backwards compatibility for those that wish to part with their PS3s. The PS3 isn't BC with PS2 games (minus the launch models) either, so this is really nothing new from either console manufacturer. They're trying to encourage you to keep your older systems if you want to play previous generation games, especially because they are still going to launch games on previous gen consoles.

Not sure if it will offer full 7.1 sound, but given it's large range of video support, it's probably a safe assumption. Also, yes, they mentioned that games are only in 1080p and 1080p 3D, but the console can play 4K blu-rays and 1030p3D movies.


P.S. Punctuation is your friend. Not trying to be a grammar nazi, it's just genuinely hard to see where one question ends and the next begins without it.