Despite only really showing the boxart for a smattering of PS One titles during recent conferences, Sony’s commitment to providing a wide range of old school gaming for the PS Vita goes well beyond what we’d been thinking.
Whilst this isn’t just opening up the portable to every single PlayStation game, there will – according to the platform holder itself – be over 100 games available. Naturally, this doesn’t mean they’ll all be there day one, but over the coming months and years we’re hoping that Sony pick out the very best, and stay true to that “classic” subtitle.
Playback of PS One titles starts very soon, and you’ll need to grab the latest firmware to make it happen, once it lands next week.
Sony has yet to confirm which games will make the launch of the new service, but hopefully we can expect Metal Gear Solid soon enough.
Bladesteel
From the press release: “, over 100 PS One classics including Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, and Resident Evil 2 will be available to download for PS Vita.”
So we have three games confirmed at least
cam the man
I hope there’s a TOCA or/and a Colin McRae game included.
parryman
TOCA!
hell yes.
freezebug2
Are there are any plans to allow people that still own the original PS1 games of these classics claim them for free?
Some sort of Bar code reader utility on the Vita that’ll produce a free DLC code or a PS3 utility that can read the original discs and produce a free DLC code, as an authenticity measure……more likely the latter, as it could be account limited as are the usual store purchases.
This is probably all in place anyway but I wasn’t aware…..or maybe not!
Great move anyway by Sony as there are some cracking PS1 titles that would live very comfortably on the handheld. ;)
XisTG
that barcode reader idea is actually great, you should pitch it to them ;)
freezebug2
Thanks, although I think that if it ever happened, they would opt for the disc reading method using the PS3’s drive as it would probably be a better safeguard to proof of ownership.