Retail Bypass: Sony Letting PS3 Owners Buy PlayStation 4 Games Now

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This is minor news, so if you’re not a PlayStation 3 owner and you’re not already a PlayStation 4 convert and you don’t really care about wrapping your digital tendrils around a bunch of PS4 games right about now — still almost exactly one month out from the PS4’s North American release date — this is going to mean nothing to you.

But if you can check all those boxes, run — don’t walk — to your PlayStation 3, where you can now purchase PlayStation 4 games, starting with Knack, SCE Japan’s $60 whatchamacallit action game, and the free-to-play co-op shooter Warframe today.

Yes, that’s right, I didn’t mis-type: Sony’s letting you pre-order a free-to-play game — I have no idea why either.

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