Sony has squashed the thoughts of new plans for downloadable PS2 games on PS3 Store, well for now anyway, so it seems like Sony has no plans for this idea. During the big Sony press conference last week, it was announced that there was a new PlayStation movie store, which is all good but some of the screens on display were showing Playstation 2 games as being on the store, why they did this is not known, but Sony piped up with “that’s a mistake” or so to speak.
So this means at this point for now we have not made any announcements and there are no plans for PS2 downloadable game titles on the PS3, personally who wants PS2 games on the PS3 anyway since backwards compatibility is now done in the works. Ok there may be many of you who want to play PS2 classics, if you are one of those gamers, please let us know what you think of the above.
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Tags: playstation 2, Playstation 3, PS2, ps3, sony
8 responses so far ↓
1 COPYRIGHT // Jul 21, 2008 at 10:48 am
The idea for downloading old skool PS2 games, would be cool for those folks that didn’t manage to get a PS3 with backwards compatibility.
Renting downloadable movies in HD is one thing,
But it would be awesome, if you could actually buy ‘em to keep, at a huge discount over the store prices ofcourse.
2 Dangthing // Oct 25, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Its likely that they plan to do it but have yet to actually make it work. Knowing them they put that on there for “hype” so that people would get all happy and go buy Ps3’s. Its not a bad idea but I already have backwards compatibility, what I need now is a disk resurfacing device.
3 Joeymoto // Oct 29, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I know this sounds a bit random, but has anyone got Digital Devil Saga on PS2 and can get it running on a European 60gb BC PS3? I dunno if it’s because my disc is scratched or it just isn’t compatible on my PS3. Hmmmmm
BTW I think that they shouldn’t be selling PS2 games on PSN because they took away BC from later SKUs so stuff them.
4 Dangthing // Nov 2, 2008 at 3:17 am
They took the Emotion Engine out of the newer models because it didn’t seem to be a selling point and it was losing them money. Also new 160 GB model with no BC and 2 USB is coming out soon!
5 BoovTheAlmighty // Jan 9, 2009 at 8:02 pm
@Joeymoto
Hey man, I just tried it on my 60gb European PS3 and it didn’t work either. However I did try it on my Playstation 2 and it works fine. I think I can confirm you can only play it on a Playstation 2 console.
6 ben // May 28, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I think they should go ahead with the idea timesplitters 3 was soo good might not get another timesplitters :(. and i was one of the ones that didnt manage to get a 60gb backwards compatible model as they stopped doing them when i had enough money :(. so please get ps2 down loadable games on ps3 whoooo yerrrr
7 s // Sep 2, 2009 at 11:24 pm
i have the ps3 160gb modle its the uncharted drakes fortuine bundle and i think it would be nice to be able to play ps2 games on the ps3. and at the playstation online store i just downloaded the ps2 data that allows you to download ps2 games like the resident evil out break files 1&2 but i do not own that game so idk if it works. so yes i say sony should have ps2 games added to the online store!!
8 Jamal // Dec 20, 2009 at 7:52 pm
please bring it back i love my ps2 games and i dont care if i have to buy them again on ps store i dont have a ps2 and all my others are broke please bring it back
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