Sony announced today Playstation Now, an online network that will allow the streaming of many PS3 and PS2 games on multiple devices, eliminating the problems the company had been having with backwards compatibility on their next-gen console, the PS4.

The network was revealed the crowd by PlayStation chief executive Andrew House while he was on-stage at CES in Las Vegas today. He claimed it will allow for the first time many of the company’s back catalogue such as The Last of Us will be playable on many different devices, including Bravia TVs, tablets and of course the Playstation 4. The service is expected to make use of Gaikai, a cloud gaming service that Sony acquired back in 2012 and will allow users to be able to pause the gaming stream on one device and then resume it on another if they wish. Access to the library will be through a system that allows either the puchase of a single game to stream or a monthly subscription fee that will give access to the entire PS Now library, although a fee is yet to be set in stone. The service will also include things like multiplayer and trophies.

“PS Now will allow users to engage in the world of PlayStation, whether they’re existing fans or have never owned a PlayStation platform.” House said.

The service will launch in the US over the summer with a beta trial in January, but no dates have yet been announced for the system to come to Europe.