PS2 Emulation On PS4 Is A “Big Deal”, Games Will Be Worth Playing –Dev

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Last week, Sony quietly released PS2 emulation on the PlayStation 4 via four classic games that came along with the Star Wars Battlefront PS4 bundle. Sony later officially confirmed that they are indeed working on the feature. The emulation brings along a number of benefits such as better frame rate and resolution, along with improved texture filtering and anit-aliasing solution that will make sure that PS2 games on PS4 look crisper compared to the original version.

However, does this feature hold value especially given that a number of AAA games are due for the PS4 next year and beyond? Chris Pruett who is the co-founder of Robot Invader certainly thinks so.

“As game design connoisseurs, proper PS2 emulation is a big deal to us,” Chris said in an interview with GamingBolt. “A huge chunk of the golden age of horror games mentioned above ran on the PS2, and many of those games are absolutely worth playing. There are many titles on that platform that could not be made today simply because they are beyond the means of most independent studios but too niche for a large publisher to consider. It’s a catalog of thousands of games.”

It will be interesting to see how Sony updates its catalog of PS2 games for the PS4, and what kind of pricing they will opt for. Personally, I think this strategy is inferior compared to Microsoft’s. Paying for games that you may already own compared to a free feature from your competitor will be a factor in deciding how successful this is going to be for Sony.

Posted: Nov 29, 2015 1:29 am
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Source: http://gamingbolt.com/ps2-emulation-on-ps4-is-a-big-deal-games-will-be-absolutely-worth-playing-dev

Comments

LukeGPosted: Sun. Dec 20, 2015

ps2 was the bomb when it first came out not many people on this site was alive when it first came out.
memories

WJMPosted: Sat. Dec 19, 2015

Wanna play old games agin :(((((

HippieSabotagePosted: Tue. Dec 15, 2015

I wanna play the old CODs again

vLunaPosted: Thu. Dec 03, 2015

It would be awesome to play all the old games again.

ExtaticPosted: Wed. Dec 02, 2015

Don't think this will be very good

thePiManxPosted: Mon. Nov 30, 2015

thePiManx remember the PS2 hardware setting for PS1 games? i would love to see that added to the PS4 for the PS2 games. something that attempts to make PS2 games look better but this time it would seriously make them look better.

i read the grey area first and did not see that is what they are doing. DOH!

thePiManxPosted: Mon. Nov 30, 2015

remember the PS2 hardware setting for PS1 games? i would love to see that added to the PS4 for the PS2 games. something that attempts to make PS2 games look better but this time it would seriously make them look better.

SysPosted: Mon. Nov 30, 2015

I think this could be a huge milestones for people who loved the old gen games. Would defiantly increase sales!

OGPosted: Mon. Nov 30, 2015

If PS is able to play old games, im willing to pay for PS4 but if it continues like it is right now, it will not be worth it imo

CheckPosted: Mon. Nov 30, 2015

Wouldn't mind seeing the old classics like Metal Gear, San Andreas, Simpsons Hit and Run (if that was on the PS2, I can't quite recall) and the various other classics.

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