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.
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
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
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!
Please add SOCOM 1 and 2 with full online support. The day those servers went offline was truly a dark day.
Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 3 & Infinite World!
$15 to much. Hopefully you guys drop price
Probably gonna be alone in this but:
– Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
– Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World
– Shadow the Hedgehog
Please so many people want Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 or Dragon Ball Z Infinite World!! You would do so much people a favor!
I think I speak for quite a few people if I ask that the .hack infection//mutation//outbreak//quarantine series, compiled in 1 download. Or a series for 1 purchase. I ask the programmers/staff of playstation, have you seen how absurdly rare the 4th game, quarantine is and sells for on amazon? It’s like a barren wasteland. And frustrating that I only have 1-3 of the Ps2 version after spending more than 80 dollars.
Anyway, those games were golden and were a part of all of our childhoods, and I think it would be great to port those over.
Great soundtrack, such a fun dungeon crawler and a classic 1 player MMO.
I hope you consider this. =)
Is this some sort of joke? Who in the right mind would pay $15 each for the older Grand Theft Auto games? I was able the entire GTA collection (minus 5) for $15 off of Steam, and I got the entire physical PS2 collection brand new for like $20. That isn’t even considering that I could go to any small game store/ebay and pick it up for $.99
I was excited for this, because I was at least hoping for us to be allowed to use our physical collection (or at least hoping that they would at least be dirt cheap on PSN), but this is ridiculous. Clearly, it isn’t impossible to do this either since Microsoft seemed to pull it off with a console that’s even newer than the PS2.
They really shot themselves in the foot with the pricing.
Look at all the Sony sponsored comments below and above us…
They know what is going on which is why they are spamming the comments here.
I know, I find this whole thing ridiculous, and I’m somewhat shocked on all of the positive reception this is getting, spammer or not. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s awesome that Sony was able to make this really nice emulator for the PS4, but $15 for really old games is highway robbery, especially if this is going to be one of the ways Sony expects to compete with what Xbox has to offer in terms of backwards compatibility.