wraggster
December 7th, 2015, 20:19
Gamers can now play PS2 titles on their PlayStation 4.
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida announced via the PlayStation Blog (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/12/04/8-fan-favourite-ps2-games-launch-on-ps4-tomorrow/) that eight PS2 games would be available to play on PS4.
Those titles are Dark Cloud, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Rogue Galaxy, The Mark of Kri, War of the Monsters and Twisted Metal: Black.
Yoshida says these titles have been up-rendered to 1080p and come with PS4 features, including Remote Play, Activity Feeds, Second Screen as well as Live Broadcast and Share Play.
This functionality was announced in November (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-will-get-ps2-emulation-sony-confirms/0159406). At the time it was not clear whether PS2 backwards compatibility would mean gamers would be able to use their physical discs to play PS2 titles – now it has been announced that PlayStation 2 games have to be bought digitally.
The above titles all have price tags of £11.99, with the exception of Twisted Metal and War of the Monsters which will set gamers back £7.99.
This functionality is likely an attempt to compete with Microsoft's Xbox One backwards compatibility (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/microsoft-xbox-one-gets-xbox-360-backwards-compatibility/0151155)which lets gamers play Xbox 360 titles on their new hardware. 104 releases (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/104-backwards-compatible-games-named-for-xbox-one/0158813) are part of this functionality.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps2-games-now-available-on-playstation-4/0160064
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida announced via the PlayStation Blog (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/12/04/8-fan-favourite-ps2-games-launch-on-ps4-tomorrow/) that eight PS2 games would be available to play on PS4.
Those titles are Dark Cloud, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Rogue Galaxy, The Mark of Kri, War of the Monsters and Twisted Metal: Black.
Yoshida says these titles have been up-rendered to 1080p and come with PS4 features, including Remote Play, Activity Feeds, Second Screen as well as Live Broadcast and Share Play.
This functionality was announced in November (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-will-get-ps2-emulation-sony-confirms/0159406). At the time it was not clear whether PS2 backwards compatibility would mean gamers would be able to use their physical discs to play PS2 titles – now it has been announced that PlayStation 2 games have to be bought digitally.
The above titles all have price tags of £11.99, with the exception of Twisted Metal and War of the Monsters which will set gamers back £7.99.
This functionality is likely an attempt to compete with Microsoft's Xbox One backwards compatibility (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/microsoft-xbox-one-gets-xbox-360-backwards-compatibility/0151155)which lets gamers play Xbox 360 titles on their new hardware. 104 releases (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/104-backwards-compatible-games-named-for-xbox-one/0158813) are part of this functionality.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps2-games-now-available-on-playstation-4/0160064