10 Crucial PS4 Features Sony Must Implement In 2015

2. Full Back Catalogue Library Migration

It's like that one thing coming no one wants to admit; the all-digital shelf-emptying future - a total collector's nightmare of tiled interfaces and nothing physical to show for all their cash except a special edition bust of Mortal Kombat's Kitana collecting dust forevermore. Sony's answer to this takeover is Playstation Now, their 'Netflix-for-games' streaming service that initially had shocking prices up front and still has a weird delay both in control and resolution when playing. However if this sort of thing really is an inevitability, what are you going to do with all your PS1, PS2 and PS3 games? With no backwards compatibility on the hardware side - presumedly because they expect you to re-buy everything again - this would be a pretty big slap in the face to the fans that have stuck by them over the years. Going forward there should be some way of authenticating your discs under your account, to them redeem online store credit for the digital versions, although how Sony make sure you then can't sell them on is something left up to the experts. Still, for such a premise to be remotely alluring there needs to be a way of converting everything that's propping up the walls into your own streamlined instant-access catalogue of Sony-based goodness.
Gaming Editor
Gaming Editor

WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.