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"Sony does not have a European timeline for PlayStation 4 streaming service Gaikai, according to SCEE president Jim Ryan. Ryan told Edge that the company was hoping to introduce its Gaikai streaming service to North America in early 2014.  However, explaining his decision not to talk about Gaikai at gamescom, Ryan said that broadband issues were causing problems for the service in Europe. &amp;quot;So the plan is to begin with North America next year and the plan is to provide a streaming service that will allow for PS3 content initially to be streamed to firstly PS4 then PS Vita and then PS3,&amp;quot; Ryan explained. &amp;quot;And so that will happen in 2014 in North America initially.  &amp;quot;Now, and I touched upon these issues of broadband in Europe during the presentation - Europe is of course on the roadmap for that service to be deployed at some point in the future, but for reasons outside of our control we don&amp;#039;t yet have a timeline for it.  &amp;quot;So at a show which is now pretty global in its reach but primarily aimed at a European audience, we didn&amp;#039;t really want to start talking about the virtues of this great cloud-based service without knowing exactly when it&amp;#039;ll come to Europe.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve got a roadmap, there&amp;#039;s just a few bumps along the road that need to be ironed out,&amp;quot; he added. It was previously confirmed that the PS4 has no native PS3 backwards compatibility, with Gaikai revealing it was developing a cloud service that could offer PS3 games on the new console without the built-in hardware compatibility. The catalogue will initially be limited to PS3 games, with PS2, PSOne and PS Mobile games to follow. Sony&amp;#039;s PlayStation 4 will be available for $399 in North America from November 15, and \u00A3349 in the UK from November 29. &amp;gt; PS4 hands-on video: Digital Spy looks at next-generation hardware  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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