The landscape of video game preservation and homebrew is a complex, constantly evolving ecosystem. For years, the "Holy Grail" for many PlayStation enthusiasts has been the ability to seamlessly play their legacy PlayStation 3 libraries on the more modern, powerful PlayStation 4 hardware. This desire has given rise to a specific niche in the homebrew community centered around the keyword: PS3 to PS4 PKG .
This is not a PKG conversion. The PS4 acts as a "dumb terminal," streaming video of the game running on a remote server farm filled with PS3 hardware blades. While effective, it requires a high-speed internet connection and does not involve installing a PKG file to the console's hard drive. With the rise of PS4 homebrew (enabled via exploits like Mira/Hen on firmware 5.05, 6.72, 7.02, 7.55, and 9.00), the door opened for custom packages, or FPkg . ps3 to ps4 pkg