Sony’s Peter Dille Talks PS2 Classics on PSN
The list of PSOne classics on the PlayStation Network is growing weekly and has shown Sony that consumers are willing to buy older games for cheaper prices on the PlayStation Store. Right now it is only PS1 games in the store, but Sony may be looking into bringing classic PS2 games to the table soon.
In a recent interview over on IGN, PlayStation Senior VP Peter Dille reaffirmed what many of us already knew: Sony is looking into bringing back some PS2 Classics.
From our side, we’re going through our own studio organization and trying to make sure all these old games are out there so that we can lead by example, but we’re also communicating with all the third-parties about the success of the Final Fantasy games, and other PS1 and PS2 classics.
Though this is in no way a confirmation by Sony, it does go a long way towards the hope that we will one day be able to buy games like Persona 3 and Ico on the PlayStation Store.
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19 Responses to “Sony’s Peter Dille Talks PS2 Classics on PSN”
please please please release shadow of the colossus
That would be really good idea, but hold on, PS1 and PS2 looks worse on HD screen than SD, mabey sony might upgrade PS1 and PS2 graffic in HD???, eg like GOD OF WAR Collection, but in PSN, well i dont’t know really, what do you reckon guys !!!
The Last Guardian?
@VS – I seriously doubt it. That would take patching to the game, and usually they leave that up to the devs. Maybe if the original dev wants to get involved, we might see that for a few games. Even then, I feel like if you’re buying a classic game, your decision has nothing to do with the graphics, but more the classic style gameplay.
I played Gran Turismo 4 on my HDTV – that game can output in 1080i, so it looked much better than on an ordinary set. I imagine that the later games with really good graphics would look great on an HDTV, while the earlier games might not. In any event, I think it’s a great idea to make these games available for download. I personally would be buying quite a few of them!
They Desperately need PS2 games on there
it’s time for Sony to abandon the PS2 in retail stores and focus on the PS3 entirely. It’s had a good long life and now it’s time for them to allow is to play PS2 games on our PS3 once again. Obviously since they refuse to give us back backwards compatibility it looks like the only way that will happen is if we pay for these games all over again.
They’re gonna do revamping to the ps2 titles similar to what they did with the GoW 1&2, I read on kotaku a day or two ago where a guy was saying it takes little cost and time to do the trophy support and graphics updating and the money they’d make back on it would be worth it; so naturally game developers are going to do it.
This is also something sony wants to do in order to avoid the BC issue in future consoles(logistics 101), it’s a win-win for everyone so relish in the fact that we’ll be upping our trophy score off of our most favorite ps2 games in the not-so-distant future……………
hello …
would be great if all your ideas are used
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but i would rather buy a Team ICO Collection in HD.
Even if the PS2 Games do look better than on a PS2 on an HDTV, it’s still not there.
I hope they also find a way for someone having an original PS2 disc game to be able to buy the same off PSN at a better price or just redeem some code to get it free, maybe like an exchange.
cheers!
What kind of bandwidth am I going to be sucking up downloading PS2 games? GOWII was a short game, but it would still be a heck of a download. What are we talking? 1GB or 5GB?
oooh 5 GB for a ps2 game so what, we use that much for installs anyways
@wtgp
not everyone uses in just games.. some people have like 50gb of music and almost every 3rd party game takes 4-5gb. My singstar DLC is about 90gb not counting every other game i own (41). It may not seam like alot but 500gb can fill up pretty quick. I only have about 200gb left on mine.
that would be pretty great
I have a feeling we’ll see something quite significant when sony officially pulls support for the PS2 from retail. Right now they’re dealing with other, more time pressing issues.
PS2 classics with trophy support on the PSN would be amazing
I think we will see a update concerning Ps2 titles. They are going to say a re-dux ALA GOW Collection when they said PS2. But that isn’t available on the store. I read the interview. If they are not willing to put large titles on the PSN, then why PS2 titles that could be up to 9GB?
9.99 for GTA3 and San Andreas, That would be bananas, The only issue with me personally is how big are the files going to be and after that I’d pay from 9.99 to at THE most 14.99.
Well its was on a DVD disc which depends are what type of dvd they were using back in the day. The latest DVD and its rare only holds 17gbs. PS2 must have held only 2-6gbs max which is sounding like the occasional install from certain ps3 games these days.
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