There's no doubt that Sony loves a remaster, but if it can make a few extra pennies by re-selling old PlayStation 2 games, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will. Fortunately for the format holder, it looks like some kind of compatibility with the last-last-gen console may be on the cards, as PEGI has revealed a slew of PlayStation 4 ratings for PS2 titles like Ape Escape 2, Dark Chronicle, and Twisted Metal: Black. It's probable that these will all be sold on the PlayStation Store.
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There are no similar ratings on the ESRB website, but it's safe to assume that this will be a global initiative if PS2 games are coming to the PS4, with an announcement likely to be made during the platform holder's pre-TGS conference later in the week. Of course, it could also be an error – but it's rare for ratings boards to classify titles that don't exist. We'll reach out to the Japanese giant in an attempt to get clarification.
[source pegi.info, via destructoid.com]
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@KratosMD Yeah, agreed. Sony has all of the technology to do that, and it did the same with PSone, so fingers crossed.
It would be really nice if these titles had Trophies or something, but I'm guessing that's off the cards.
I would love a drakenguard, destruction derby 2, and scaler remaster for ps4
Hopefully, that would be awesome
But im still waiting for ps1 games :/
Would love this! As someone who had a PS2 when I was younger but didn't really know anything about games, I'm sure there's loads of classic ps2 games that I missed simply because I didn't know what games to get. Likewise didn't have a PSOne so would be great if that followed after so I can catch up on classics! Although the Vita is helping in this regard
I hope they're available for purchase. I'm not a fan of renting the ability to stream games, so I'm hoping the PSN Store gets PS/PS2/PS3 games that you can outright buy.
@shibbyduckegg Doubt this has anything to do with PS Now to be honest.
I still have some ps2 discs. Would be awesome if they worked, but I bet not.
YES APE ESCAPE 2.
OH MY GOD DARK CHRONICLE. Surprised to see that getting a PEGI rating, as I swear it's not on the EU store for PS3?
I will definitely be buying that if it gets released on PS4, without a doubt!!
If true, black will be a day one purchase. If they are starting to add the ps2 catalog, and i see a spec, atv offroad fury, max payne, midnight club, and so,so many more i would be so very happy. A spec especially.
Ape Escape!!! I'd love to be able to purchase instead of streaming it.
Ever since I got into playstation I've been hoping for an ape escape return
Would rather have the choice to download titles like this from PS Store rather than use PS Now so that's cool news if true...
I said the other day that Sony keep mentioning PlayStation's 20th anniversary, that it might lead to some kind of announcement about PS1 and PS2 games coming. Now how about a Primal rerelease too.
I'd love if they put the Onimusha series up there. Great games.
That would be nice, I still have a PS2 hooked up to my tv but being able to play PS2 games on my PS4 would be nice.
I have an entire shelf full of PS2 games but no PS2. Always figured if the PS3 launched w/ b/c the PS4 would as well. Didn't turn out that way, but if they added it I'd buy 1 day 1.
I'd love to play Jak & Daxter again one of my favourite games
Yee haa great news.
Wipeout... that is all
This is cool and all, but I feel these would be a lot better placed on VITA.
@Anchorsam_9 Yeah but Sony isn't going to do that since they are not interested in supporting the Vita.
Now if we Spyro and Crash PSone games on the vita.I hope they will put PSone and PS2 games on the PS4 and hope for PSP along with it with cross buy(PSone and PSP) and remote play(ps2) with the vita.I hope they can get Sega and Konami to put turbo grafx and Genesis on vita and PS4 with game gear on vita only.It would be neat also to put Dreamcast and Neogeo games too.
While I'm indifferent to backwards compatibility, I wouldn't mind this. My PS2 has a hard time reading discs, and in addition to that, the memory card sometimes doesn't register and my controller is old and the wiring messed up. This would admittedly be preferable to getting a new setup.
@adf86 Primal and Dark Cloud would be fantastic.
@get2sammyb "It would be really nice if these titles had Trophies or something, but I'm guessing that's off the cards."
Well, you never know... remember this?
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/21/are-trophies-coming-for-psone-and-ps2-classics
Would love to see this happen! Persona 4 and I'm sold (even though I already have a vita and golden).
Fingers crossed for Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2!
@Paranoimia Question: that old IGN article says that one of the advantages of that method for adding trophy support is that games wouldn't have to be re-certified. Since adding trophies this way is now a reality (as proven by the three newly-released Star Wars PS2 games), why are we seeing the games mentioned here getting re-certified? Was the IGN article just wrong about that?
@Dief88 Two different things. The games mentioned here were re-classified by PEGI, which only deals with age certification.
The "certification" referred to in the old IGN article is Sony's own internal testing and certification process, which ensures the code is fit for release - what's commonly referred to as "going gold". Every time an update is made to a game's code (i.e. patches, updates, etc.) it has to go through the process again, which takes time and costs money.
These games haven't had their code changed, so they don't need internal re-certification by Sony. But as they're being re-released, they do need to be re-certified for age suitability by PEGI and their equivalent international bodies like the ESRB.
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