The ESRB has rated both Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for PS3 releases. Sony Computer Entertainment America is noted as the publisher, since these games are slated to arrive on the PSN as "PS2 Classics."
We had recently learned that the original Killzone was coming to the PlayStation Network, and this new information indicates that Sony's stepped up its efforts in getting PS2 games in a digital format. Hopefully we'll get some real classics, like the Altered Beast remake, or Shadow the Hedgehog. You know what I'm talkin' about.
In all seriousness, this is cool by me. I quite fancy playing Vice City again.
Grand Theft Auto III & Vice City Coming To PSN As PS2 Classics [Siliconera]
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10:00 AM on 01.23.2012 | 
Last I heard it was going to come in a firmware update after all currently slated new PS2 games were finished releasing.
But then again Sony is good at not delivering the things people actually want so I've already accepted that the day may never come.
Zerix does have a point though.
He does have a point. But I just knew someone would bring it up :D
If only that meant a re-release on Xbox, too. Maybe I'm missing something.
I must mention... anyone who bitches about gta3/vice cit being blurry, you can turn off motion blur in those games... not sure if that's what you mean or not.
Gonna be raging on dat 8ball blow up the boat/sniper mission soooooon.
Although, these game were out for ps2 a long while before xbox got them.
PS2 classics don't automatically mean "exclusive". There are many PsOne classics that are on other systems.
Now if they add functionality to play these on the vita I'm fivking there