Here’s a scenario – You spent $150 last year on a pleasant Turtle Beach headset to your PS3. It really works great, and also you fully expect it to work great at the PS4 you pre-ordered. Well, the excellent news is that it probably will. The bad news is that it won’t work at launch.

Game Informer reports today that the PS4 won’t support any PS3 headsets for chat at launch. The functionality would be patched in at a later date for many headsets, but one sort of headset is getting left high and dry.

Here’s where things get a touch tricky. In keeping with a Sony official, the PS4 will add support for official Sony branded PULSE gaming headsets and USB-powered headsets through a patch that may be delivered post launch. Digital optical headsets will deliver in-game audio on day one, but chat capabilities would be added at a later date.

Unfortunately, evidently any and all bluetooth PS3 headsets won’t work at the PS4 because the console won’t have the capacity to recognize them. It makes little sense because the Bluetooth 2.1 within the PS4 is backwards compatible with the PS3′s Bluetooth 2.0 signals. The explanation behind this is often something that only Sony knows.

In short, people who have anything but a bluetooth PS3 headset will be good in terms of the PS4. You’ll just must wait somewhat for Sony so as to add support through a patch. Until then, you’ll just need to post with the bundled earbud headset that ships with every PS4.

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