Fan-Favorite PS2 Games Launching on PS4 Tomorrow

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Fan-Favorite PS2 Games Launching on PS4 Tomorrow

Hello everyone. As we continue our celebration of the PlayStation 20th anniversary, we want to take a look back at the heritage that helped propel us to the brand that we are today. PlayStation 2 holds a special place in the hearts of many gamers who have fond memories of playing some of the biggest franchises in gaming.

PS2 remains the best-selling console of all time, thanks in part to the revolutionary tech built into the box, such as support for the DVD format for games and movies, a powerful graphics processor, and specialized chips for particle effects and physics. Above and beyond the technical innovations that made PS2 stand apart is the huge catalog of amazing and much loved games, such as Dark Cloud, Twisted Metal: Black, and the PS2-era classic Grand Theft Auto games, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, just to name a few.

Fan-Favorite PS2 Games Launching on PS4 Tomorrow

To celebrate our PS2 heritage, I’m excited to announce that starting tomorrow, you will be able to purchase and play PS2 games on your PS4 via PlayStation Store in the Americas and Europe.

We are getting things started with a bang by launching with eight fan favorites tomorrow:

  • Dark Cloud — $14.99
  • Grand Theft Auto III — $14.99
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City — $14.99
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — $14.99
  • Rogue Galaxy — $14.99
  • The Mark of Kri — $14.99
  • Twisted Metal: Black — $9.99
  • War of the Monsters — $9.99

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Having these titles available on PS4 is already incredibly exciting for us, but we did not stop there. We have brought these titles forward to meet today’s gaming standards by adding Trophy support! Each title’s Trophy set has been carefully developed in conjunction with feedback from the original creators to be sure that they capture the spirit and feeling of each game.

Also, you will be able to experience all of these PS2 games like never before — in up-rendered 1080p with the features you expect from a PS4 game including Remote Play, Live Broadcast, Share Play, Activity Feeds, and Second Screen support for game manuals with PlayStation Vita or PlayStation App.

And if you’re attending PlayStation Experience in San Francisco this weekend, you’ll be able to play these PS2 games on PS4 at the show floor:

  • Dark Cloud
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • PaRappa the Rapper 2 (coming soon)
  • Rogue Galaxy
  • The King of Fighters 2000 (coming soon)
  • The Mark of Kri
  • War of the Monsters

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We will be working tirelessly to bring you your favorite PS2 games with new releases on a regular basis, and we hope you love playing PS2 games on PS4 as much as we did making them! So tell us, what PS2 games do you want to play on your PS4?

Long live PlayStation!

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  • I’d love to have the DBZ games as a package Deal!! Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 3 & either budokai 3 or Infinite World

  • DBZ BUDOKAI TENKAICHI 3!!!
    DBZ INFINITE WORLD
    NARUTO ULTIMATE NINJA 4
    STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT 2

  • NBA STREET V2 PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Still my favorite game of all time and I know for a fact I’m not alone.

  • star ocean till the end of time

  • We buy games digitally with some faith that they will entitle us to play them on future platforms. Although these are slightly remastered, not even giving a partial discount to owners of PS2 Classics is exploitative.

    • This is a the video game industry….when have they ever treated people fairly? You assume because Video Hames are fun and may be for children at times that the industry will be sympathetic.

      The world doesnt work that way.

  • Bring Socom2 back with thw online servers and i will GLADLY pay $500 for it, and so will many of the old Socom2 players

  • I certainly hope we will also be able to play our PS1 and PS2 games bought digitally for the PS3 because the technology is certainly there. Don’t be scumbags, Sony.

  • Please add Dragon ball z infinite World

  • Dark Cloud?!?!?!?!?!?!? YAY!!!!!!

    Can we get Star Ocean: Till the End of Time next? One of my favorite PS2 games. :)

  • Kick Kick Punch it’s all in the mind. How soon is soon?

  • Please bring Champions of Norrath, Bushido Blade, Smackdown Here Comes the Pain, and the Monster Rancher games back and I’ll throw all my money at it!

  • Please add

    dragon ball budokai tenkaichi 3
    and
    dragon ball infinite world

  • Please find a way to work with EA to bring SSX Tricky and SSX 3. Both were PS2 all time classics that we have never had a way to play them since.

  • What time and price will this be released at in the UK?

  • Shadow Hearts, Sony. Make it happen.

  • I want to see Crash Bandicoot be added Killzone 1 be added

  • This is awesome news!!! I’d love to see the obvious Sony and system exclusives, as well as just about every rpg out there. The games that stand out in my mind that I want to see make it over with full trophy support would be the Champions of Norrath games and Baldur’s Gate one’s too. My girl and I love to play couch co-op together and these games are timeless. Mercenaries, Psychonauts, Final Fantasy XII, Dragon Quest VIII, and The Getaway titles. Thanks!

  • Please please please please please add Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and the .Hack//GU series!!!

  • Hey, remember the awful price of the Vita memory cards or PS now? well this prices are also awful

  • Only want PS2 disc support (and PS2 Classic support, for the folks that already bought them digitally). How can the Xbox One do this with last-gen 360 games, but Sony expects us to pay $15 for games we’ve already purchased 2 generations ago?

    Incredibly disappointed. Don’t give a toss about trophies, shareplay and the other “features”, but I would actually pay for a PS2 emulator app for the PS4 to upscale my old games on disc. I refuse to buy any digital-only games from you guys.

    This isn’t backwards-compatibility, this is simply insulting and incredibly greedy. Really nice way to thank your fans.

    • Stop crying over nothing. People rebuying games… Or people getting games upgraded to console standards. If you really wanna play these games the same as the ps2 days. PS2 is cheap, get another if you don’t have. If you want it upscaled, then buy the version that sony took the time to fix up so you can get these perks. Simple, not greedy. Xbox 360 backwards compatibility isn’t the same thing. That’s not adding a bunch of things to it

  • Dark Cloud 2 is my all time favourite game. Just the fact Dark Cloud 1 and Rouge Galaxy are on it. I’m buying both, will platinum Dark Cloud 1 hopefully and Try to platinum Rouge Galaxy since I haven’t got to play much of that game in the past.
    This needs
    Dark Cloud 2
    Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
    Crash Nitro Kart
    Crash Twinsanity
    Crash Tag Team Racing
    Crash of the Titans or w.e the name
    Crash Mind Over Mutant
    Ty the Tiger Series
    Allow me to buy Star Wars Racer lol
    Man, if I get started on what I hope for lmao
    All PS2 Crash Bandicoot titles

    • ^^^^^^ pretty much everything you mentioned. Ya got good taste :) Especially Dark cloud 2 (dark chronicle).

  • This is the reason why I still have a PS2. It’s a shame that you (Sony) as a company just can’t make it both physical and digital for if not some but most games. I was really looking forward to playing some updated games and I really don’t care about the 1080p. I just want to enjoy and get some of those nostalgic memories once again without having to hook up my system and such. Oh well, it’s just one of those business decisions that leaves a bad taste in the gamer’s mouth.

  • .Hack G.U. Please make it happen.

  • Tenkaichi 3 & Burst Limit

  • Sony I know that there are lots of popular games out the in the playstation community but please make dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 3 and dragon ball z infinite world. There is a big community heading your way just so they could say that they want these games

  • WE NEED BUDOKAI TENKAICHI 3!!!! please!!!!!

  • Underwhelming, but not surprised Sony sees this as an opportunity to re-sell games you already own at unreasonable prices.

    Opinions will vary but I do not see $15 a good value at all despite the 1080p and trophy support. 1080p is just a buzz term, the emulator is probably just up-scaling the image. The Xbox 360 emulator on the Xbox One does the same thing.

    At the very least I was hoping you would allow us who have purchased digital licenses for PS2/PS1 games on PS3 to carry them over for a small fee like Nintendo does with their Virtual Console games. It would be a nice gesture if it were free (see Microsoft), but I guess being #1 provides you the ability to not care. All I see here is greed and unfortunately the masses will probably waste their hard earned money re-buying products they potentially already owned.

    I understand Sony is a business, not a charity. But at the same time I’d expect fare pricing and sometimes even some customer respect given how you are currently the leader in the console business.

    I’ll admit this is a nice feature, but at the same time, for me, I can’t say this is worth my money. Maybe when there are flash sales for them. Rogue Galaxy is a really good game.

  • All these games are great!!!
    Can’t wait to experience rogue galaxy for the first time ever on my ps4 with a 1080p res.

    Please bring dark cloud 2 (dark chronicle) to the ps4. I’ll do anything to play it again.

  • Plz plz plz bring back DBZ Tenkaichi 3!!!!!

  • Dragon Quest VIII, Final Fantasy XII and other JRPGs in general, please!! :D

  • hoping they’ll bring FFXII and Valkyrie Profile Sylmeria soon
    and the full trophy support is nice too

  • PLEASE BRING BACK DRAGON BALL BUDOKAI TENKAICHI 3 AND DRAGON BALL INFINITE WORLD!!!!!!!!

  • We want Socom II! You must care about the Socom community. Countless times we are asked what we want, and we deliver. Bring back Socom I and the online experience, please.

  • wait, can this mean, the ps4 can have a ps+ ps2 game?

  • SSX Tricky, NBA Street/Vol 2., 007 Nightfire, Crazy Taxi, Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

    I could keep going, but these are at top of my list!

  • SOCOM 2 please!!!! We have been asking! We are such a strong community. We got this! Hoo Ra!!

  • Please please please please remake dragon Ball z bodakia tenkaichi 3 and dragon Ball z infinite world on ps3 and ps4

  • Bully!!! Also the die hard trilogy which was originally for the first playstation.
    Cumon sony make it happen

  • Dbz boudaki tenchaki 2,

  • Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 & Dragon Ball Z Infinite World

  • Hello Sony, first thank you for bringing back the nostalgia of the ps2,and thank you basically for everything, anyway I would like the following games please to be available as soon as possible, (Mortal Kombat Armageddon),(Digimon Rumble Arena 2), And (Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3), Thank you once more for everything

  • please DRAGON BALL INFINITE WORLD AND TENKAICHI 3

  • And where the heck is Ace Combat series? AC didnt comeout on PS2 Digital on PS3 nor it seems gonna comeout on PS4. I owned AC Zero disc and quite hype when hearing the ps2-bc..then all hope is lost when “ps2 disc is incompatible with ps4”

  • Playstation, please let us have Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi and Infinite World. Please!!!!!!!

  • Tales Of The Abyss, Grandia, Black, Final Fantasy XII

  • Please give us Dragonball Z Infinite World/Budokai Tenkaichi 3!!! I swear if they did this I would make multiple accounts just to buy these games over and over again. Please do this sony!

  • Please do Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3!! Crash Bandicoot and Spyro series games would be fantastic as well.

  • Add Dej Jam Fight For New York & True Crime New York City

  • Thank you thank you thank you thank you etc…

    This is great.

    I can’t believe the game I wanted to play most from PS2 era (Rogue Galaxy) is in the first wave.

    Keep em coming, I expect to buy at least half the current list of game, there’s so much I missed out on during the PS2 era.

  • I have a few. Dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 1, 2 and 3 all of them. And dragon quest 8

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