As far as I'm aware it was only with the special star wars ps4 bundle they did :\ I'd assume that they should pop up on the store eventually.
Nope, not linked at all. They're different stories entirely.
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As far as I'm aware it was only with the special star wars ps4 bundle they did :\ I'd assume that they should pop up on the store eventually.
Nope, not linked at all. They're different stories entirely.
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Sony, why oh why are you planning on giving me PS2 backwards compatibility yet charging for PS3 games to rent.
Not exactly for the gamers is it.
Not exactly for the gamers is it.
I assume because the PS3 is such a pain in the arse to get running.
Amazed you even bothered to answer him... He posted to stir it up. As he always does.
But, however you are correct. Building a Virtual machine to emulate a PS3 is a PITA.
Talking of PS2 on PS4, Sony have also engineered a way to shoehorn trophy support into PS2 titles, now for the trophy hunters, good news, to another maybe not of much interest, but its still adding something to a very big catalog of PS2 games.
Now, remains to be seen how many PS2 games hit PSN for PS4 and if they'll either provided disc based PS2 support.
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Bet they're regretting all the money they piled into the cell. They had such great aspirations for it and it never really took off past the PS3 and a few TV's.
Seemed like a very clever bit of engineering at the time!
Seemed like a very clever bit of engineering at the time!
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I've made a legitimate criticism of Sony's business practice, you're the one getting your knickers in a twist.
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Wait what ps4 is ps2 compatible?
Nope, or not right now in any case. I think PS2 /PS1 emulation is something Sony want to announce at PSX but due to the classic star wars game and eurogamer DF doing on their tech articles - its sorta spilled the beans on one of Sonys little projects for PS4.
I personally think PS1 /PS2 games via PSN is fine, but I can see why many who have older PS2 physical copies would want to just pop the DVD into the drive and off you go, but I don't think thats Sony's plan.
I think they want to make some extra money from it selling you games via PSN.
I'd glady buy GT3 via PSN again for a bit of old school gaming... I've got a couple of PS1 classics for my Vita.
Well never say never, they might be giving the option to use PS2 DVD's. You never know.
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I know haha i grabbed onimusha and stuck it in to see if it was working 
*re inserts FO4*
*re inserts FO4*
It certainly would be nice to have disk support because there are so many games that will almost certainly never be released digitally, your suggestion of GT3 being a good example.
It's possible that the reason this has seemingly taken so long - as it's been rumoured and speculated about since around the consoles release - is because they've implemented a complete backwards compatibility system. I am a bit concerned that we are going to continue to receive crappy PAL versions of games on our Store... so probably going to have to resort to buying from the US store.
I've played the 3 Star Wars games and I have to say the emulation is great, far far better than it ever was on PS3. All three have what felt like a solid 60 fps, and from what I know all were only 30 fps on PS2. It would be impressive if all games benefit from that sort of improvement.
PAL was usually 720x576 whereas NTSC was 720x480 but NTSC I think was 60hz and PAL 50Hz as I remember SNES PAL games having some sort of fps issue comparable to NTSC and also borders via PAL instead of borderless on NTSC..
If I remember... I'd need to look it up to fully remember the differences at the time.
I think that PAL is arguably technically superior but NTSC was what most were developing games in; in short PAL is 50hz and NTSC 60hz and unless games were properly optimised for PAL you end up with games which run slower, or games with big back borders and the top and bottom of the screen. Search for Sonic PAL vs NTSC on Youtube for a good example of how bad it can be.
The PS2 era was not as bad because many games started to include the option to chose PAL or NTSC but many PS1 games suffer from bad PAL ports.
It is at the very least easier than ever to set and buy things from a US PSN account.
From the screen shot, it looks a bit like Xenoblade to me, but oh well. I loved the tactical turn-based stuff in the first game. A shame the story went downhill from the 2nd game onwards, the first game wrapped it up with the perfect conclusion and then VC 2 comes in and makes a shoddy plot excuse for more fighting. VC3 is better since it's set during VC1. Here's to hoping it's good.
I hope not, at least if they're re-packaged titles they'll have gone through some testing first.