{"id":92989,"date":"2016-06-07T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=92989"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:30:25","slug":"watch-this-developer-play-pc-games-on-the-playstation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/92989-watch-this-developer-play-pc-games-on-the-playstation-4","title":{"rendered":"Watch this developer play PC games on the PlayStation 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A developer has managed to play PC games on a PlayStation 4, using <strong>Steam<\/strong> and <strong>Linux<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation 4 uses architecture similar to a normal desktop computer, which means that users will inevitably use various hacks to adapt the console&#8217;s software.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDADjVTG-4_rIO9enQboRaQ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>OsirisX\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>has gotten Linux to boot on the PlayStation 4, which means that the device can run Steam and certain Linux-compatible games.<\/p>\n<p>Booting Linux on the PS4\u00a0is no simple task however, as it requires the console to be using old firmware (<strong>1.76 or below<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Only games compatible with SteamOS or Linux can be played, and the performance is\u00a0relatively poor, meaning that users will have to lower graphics settings for playable framerates.<\/p>\n<p>The hack also requires that users install certain <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fail0verflow\/ps4-radeon-patches\" target=\"_blank\">Radeon libraries<\/a><\/strong> created by the fail0verflow team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out OsirisX running Steam on the PlayStation 4 below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHjTXYBSRck\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0PlayStation<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The PlayStation Neo 4K will release before September 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/92283-the-playstation-neo-4k-will-release-before-september-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The PlayStation Neo 4K will release before September 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Ubisoft will unveil an open-world PlayStation VR game at E3\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/92209-ubisoft-will-unveil-an-open-world-playstation-vr-game-at-e3.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ubisoft will unveil an open-world PlayStation VR game at E3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything we know so far about the PlayStation Neo\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/91189-everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-playstation-neo.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Everything we know so far about the PlayStation Neo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A developer has managed to run PC games on a PlayStation 4, using SteamOS and Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":87406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681],"tags":[197,2065,18877,6136,1239,85,1713],"class_list":["post-92989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-hack","tag-linux","tag-osirisx","tag-pc-games","tag-playstation-4","tag-steam","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}