Fans of old games don’t care much, except for PlayStation 3 games that can be run from the cloud …
We recently wrote about the 20th anniversary of the Ratchet & Clank franchise, which Sony celebrated by including five more games in their PlayStation 3 version (because some of them weren’t originally made for it!) In the top PlayStation Plus category, Premium (or Deluxe, if you can’t play games from the cloud, meaning PlayStation Now wasn’t available previously). But PS3 updates are also not that big and frequent, but if you don’t consider that platform, things get worse!
At the top tier of PlayStation Plus, PS1, PS2 and PSP games can be played locally. For PS2 games, Sony has done next to NOTHING: they simply took the “PS2 Classics” titles released for the PlayStation 4 and dragged them here. Subscribers are rightfully critical of PS1 and PSP games as well on the ResetEra forum It’s inside Reddit Both: Retro games get hardly any attention, while the other day we wrote about how, according to Miyamoto Shigeru, the veteran Nintendo developer, support for retroactive games has never been easier!
But there have been leaks that we have also written about. Dino Crisis, Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny and Ridge Racer 2 have leaked from Sony itself, and Siphon Filter 3 has appeared among South Korean reviews. So far, a total of zero games have appeared on PlayStation Plus Premium and we don’t deny it: since launch of the new PS Plus model, the Premium category received less attention. PS1 and PSP games are very easy to emulate (they would work fine on a phone today), and the fact is that licensing is the biggest issue with them (Miyamoto also talked about it), Sony has a huge library of games.
When will the subscribers receive it, for whom they put a lot of money on the table? It’s amazing how painstakingly Sony adds old games to its service.
Source: PSL
