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 am still waiting for SOCOM to truly arrive on PlayStation. We’ve waiting long enough. Let’s go, it’s time to show the world why SOCOM continues to live on with us. Bring us SOCOM II with online capabilities, SONY! It’s SOCOM or nothing for many of us. We’re still here!

  • Please please please consider bringing the Bauldur’s Gate Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath games. Those were amazing co-op games. Particularly the Champions games.

  • Whatever Def Jam games there were, crash bandacoot, need for speed underground 2, blitz the league, dragon ball z, and whatever else can bring back my 90’s childhood so i can pass them onto my son and for the love of God remaster them with online multiplayer…games now a days don’t have a good sense of a campaign or story mode and this will be probably the best thing for any gaming fan this is the future bringing back history!

  • Please do dragon ball we need it

  • Few words: dbz budokai tenkaichi he collected with all of the tenkaichi games.

  • The old star wars battlefronts, star wars republic commando

  • Socom 2 please Sony for the players

  • I think I speak for everyone in the gaming community when I beg of you to bring Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefront II to the PS store. I would also love to see the 2004 Transformers open-world shooter brought to next gen, as it is one of my fondest gaming memories.
    This is so cool, can’t wait to experience PS2 (and hopefully PS3???) again on my PS4 system!

  • I wpuld die for the original Star Wars Battlefront 1and 2 games to be revamped for the PS4. Those are by far some of the best Star Wars games ever made. I would love to see some old Tom Clancy games added too. Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm and Advanced Soldier and come to mind and of course, the old Splinter Cell games would be another great series to update to the PS4. Above all else though, the original Star Wars Battlefront games are MUST. Please make these available for the PS4.

  • Kingdom Hearts 2
    SSX (The Original)
    Dragon Ball Z Budokai Collection
    SOCOM
    Thats all i really care about, would love to play Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix while waiting for Kingdom Hearts 3 (Yes i have 2.5 but not a ps3 anymore), dragon ball z was always good, SSX I LOVED IT, Socom because people always said it was good.

  • I would love to see dragon ball z budakai tenkaichi 3

    I am a big dbz fan

  • What about FF !2?

  • Like this would happen but i would love to see Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Spider-Man 2 (best SM game ever), Ultimate Spider-Man, Star Wars Battlefront 1/2 and the X-Men Legend games been released for it. Final Fantasy 12 and the Prince Of Persia Trilogy would also be great as well.

  • Please sony please
    Dbz tenkachi 3 and infinet world
    Bring it to ps4

  • Indigo Prophecy, All the Shadow Hearts, Dark Cloud 2.

  • PLZ DRAGON BALL Z BUDOKAI TENKAICHI 3 REMADE!!

  • Dbz tenkaichi 3, dbz infinite world, or both please!!!!!!!

  • Okay we seriously need Star Wars Battlefront 2! Please Sony, do it! That’s one of the best games I’ve ever played, and people have been dying to play it again for years.
    Also, it would be cool if you added Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja 5. The US never got it, so it would be a nice way for others to finally play it.

  • We Want DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 & DBZ Infinite World!!! WE ALL WANT IT!!!

  • Dragon Ball Z both Budokai and Budokai Tankichi games please!

  • Sorry Shuhei, but I am not paying ANY amount of money for ROMs of PS2 and PS1 games I have sitting on my shelf, right next to my two perfectly functioning PS2s and PS1. This is a pretty poor attempt to match what Microsoft is doing with 360 backwards compatibility. You’re not telling me that the PS4 could not scan a PS2/PS1 disc to confirm ownership with the proper software. This is nickel and diming your consumer base, especially those who already bought these games digitally on PS3 last generation. Playstation has been my console of choice over the past 4 generations, but this I will not support.

    • exactly i mean putting in your ps2 games in your ps4 i understand but not being able to download the ps2 classics that i bought on my playstation account and making me rebuy the game is shady bussiness practices.

  • SSX and Pac-Man World 2/3!

  • I’d love to see SSX 3 on PS4. It’s awesome.

  • Can someone answer this question please

    Sorry if these are ridiculous questions

    – what time (eastern time zone) will they be available?

    – do they adjust the soundtrack for gta because of licensing issues?

  • Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy!

    • NO! NOT THE FIRST GAME ONLY! ALL FIVE GAMES!
      JAK AND DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
      DAXTER (PSP)
      JAK II
      JAK 3
      JAK X: COMBAT RACING

      THIS!
      Many want a PS4 Collection of Jak and Daxter, just like the Uncharted Collection! Want that too? Join the Facebook page called Bring Back Jak (PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! GIVE US THESE FIVE JAK GAMES! OR BETTER YET MAKE A PS4 COLLECTION WITH ALL FIVE! SIMILAR TO WHAT BLUEPOINT DID WITH THE UNCHARTED COLLECTION!)

  • Ages ago I saw a game called Rogue Galaxy and wanted to play it, but it fell by the wayside and I forgot it exisited. Thank you. Psychonauts and SMT Devil Summoner would be awsome to see.

  • Gauntlet dark legacy, baldurs gate, lego games, dynasty warriors, crash bandicoot, spyro games.

  • Sony…listen up because all you say you care about is the games and the gamers.

    I also know you care about $$$.

    If you want people to pay $15 for a PS2 game (which is absolutely ridiculous) you need to release Socom 2 with working servers.

    I could guarantee there would be 10,000 or more people that would drop $15 on that game in a split second.

    3,000-4,000 people roughly donated over $300,000 to H-Hour and it wasn’t even Socom 2…

    Do you understand that math? Means people literally paid close to $100 for a prototype game that wasn’t even the original Socom 2…

    That could have been your $ Sony. All you have to do is release Socom 2 HD and enjoy your $$$.

    I would bet that it would be your highest selling game for this PS2 to PS4 sales platform.

    Make it happen and give the tens of thousands of loyal players who spent their lives on your game that made the PS2 and online play what it was.

    Stop ignoring us and give us what we want.

    I want my SOCRACK!

  • Sony can you please bring back Dragon Ball Z tenkaichi 3 and Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3

  • Many want a PS4 Collection of Jak and Daxter, just like the Uncharted Collection! Want that too? Join the Facebook page called Bring Back Jak (PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! GIVE US THESE FIVE JAK GAMES! OR BETTER YET MAKE A PS4 COLLECTION WITH ALL FIVE! SIMILAR TO WHAT BLUEPOINT DID WITH THE UNCHARTED COLLECTION!)
    JAK AND DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
    DAXTER (PSP)
    JAK II
    JAK 3
    JAK X: COMBAT RACING
    SLY TRILOGY & SLY 4!
    APE ESCAPE TRILOGY!
    DEF JAM: VENDETTA
    DEF JAM: FIGHT FOR NEW YORK
    MEDIEVIL BOTH OF THEM!
    KLONOA
    KLONOA 2
    BEYOND GOOD & EVIL
    RAYMAN TRILOGY!
    THE WARRIORS
    TONY HAWK’S UNDERGROUND BOTH OF THEM!
    THE PUNISHER
    MAX PAYNE (ALL THREE)
    TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (ALL THREE KONAMI TMNT GAMES)
    TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER (3-4)
    ICO & SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS

  • I hope marvel vs capcom 2 is next. Thank you playstation :)

  • Final Fantasy 12

    TimeSplitters 2 & 3

    Persona series

    Bloody Roar

  • I already have the GTA San Andreas (ps2 version) for ps3, can i download it again without pay anymore?

  • Spider-Man 2
    Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
    Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World

    Those are all I ask for.

  • Whats the deal? Apparently Sony doesn’t care about the gamer at all! Why would I spend more money on a game that I already own. Your answer on Twitter was because now the PS2 games will have trophy support and upscaling, are you serious ! I love my PSOne first game I bought was Battle Arena Toshinden and wth the demo disc introduced newly signed artist Korn and Ginuwine. Then the PS2 what a step up and I could still play my PSOne awesome! PS3 holy crap what a system backward compatible with PSOne and PS2 games plus all new IPS for PS3 plus classic remakes then it happened Sony got greedy and screwed their fan base ! No more backward compatibility but at least I can still play online for free for now. Then came PS4 and I was shocked! The PS4 couldnt do anything just play games! Sony has turned into Nintendo! Then they decided to charge for online multiplayer what ! So I decided to geta PS4 just for the exclusives and thats all. I respect Sony for everything they have brought and done to the gaming community and all there accomplishments but somewhere down that road they just quit caring about the gamers that made their company what it is today. These are my thoughts and I can only speak for myself !

  • Please try to bring back Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. This to play along with Xenoverse would really seal the deal on me getting a PS4.

  • Onimusha series please!!!

  • Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 please!!!!

  • First off, I am personally excited for this addition to the PS4. I am also glad to see Rogue Galaxy and Dark Cloud. I never got the chance to play Rogue Galaxy, so I can finally do that. Dark Cloud is a game I loved.

    As for games I would like to see, I would liked to see some Square Enix titles like Valkryie Profile 2, Star Ocean 3, Radiatta Stories, Drakengard, Drakengard 2 and Front Mission 4. I would like to see more classic PS2 RPGs in general. Such as Shadow Hearts, .hack//, etc…

    I also think this would be a good opportunity to localize PS2 games that never made it here. I would like to see Tales of Rebirth, Tales of Destiny Remake and Tales of Destiny 2. However, it would be unfair of me to ask this of you as it is not in your hands and localizations cost money and take more time than simply getting an already localized game on the PS4. Though, I will ask for Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Legendia as a possibility.

    Thank you for this addition Sony, truly. I can’t wait to see what games get added in the future. This was a great surprise.

  • DRAGON BALL Z TENKAICHI 3

  • Awesome sony, I loved my ps2, would like to see Star Wars battlefronts, Silent hills, Tekkens, DBZ ganes, Socom games, Final Fantasy please, Just keep adding em everybody loves classics I sure do!!!!!!

  • Dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 3, and infinite world plz there are so many dbz fans that want this please sony i’m asking you please do this for us so many people no I mean millions of people will buy this just please listen and do this its been about 10 years already PLEASE do this for us sony we know you can do this for all the dbz fans I am here to lend all my energy tothe dbz community that want these games to be playable onps4 please do it DO IT NOW!

  • If possible those Crash Bandicoot games, the Jak and Daxter series, Persona, Sonic Heroes and The Simpsons Hit and Run would make me happy to no end.

  • I would like to see Dark Cloud 2, Dragon Quest VIII, Gitaroo Man, and Katamari Damacy.

  • Bring back Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and Dragon Ball Z Infinite World they are the only 2 games i will buy in the ps2 collection

  • Dragon ball budokai tenkaichi 3
    Goblin Commander Unleash the Horde
    the Sims
    NFS hot pursuit 2
    THANK YOU SONY! THIS IS AMAZING

  • DRAGONBALL Z BUDOKAI TENKAICHI 3 PLLLLZZZZZZ THANKS

  • Dbz budokai tenkaichi 3 and infinite world!! Please

  • So, let me get this straight…

    Microsoft says “Hey, you want backwards compatibility? Fine. If you own one of the games on this list (which will gradually be updated), you can play the game on Xbone, but you have to OWN the disc.”

    Sony responds with “So, you want to play old games on our not-so-new console? Wait? You already bought them? What? You still actually have them? Tough. Here, buy them again. Loyalty means nothing to us.”

    Keep your old “classic” games. If I want to play them, I’ll head out to my garage where I have the system set up with all of the games I bought supporting you. Hell, I guess I could pop most of them into the 80gb fat that actually plays them too.

    You were doing so much correctly for the past few years that you can’t see how many bad decisions you have made recently. Stop screwing it up. Time to remove your head from your from that dark place of yours.

  • Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, and Dragon Ball Z Infinite World !!!!!!!

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