From $9.99 to $14.99
I’m going to preface this community question by stating the obvious — the way Sony is handling backward compatibility is not ideal. It has had issues in the past with it, like some PS3s past a certain date not playing PS2 games natively (my in-the-clear Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 broke, so sad), and the whole fiasco with the Vita (some digital PSP games still aren’t compatible!). But this situation kind of sucks all around.
Sony has announced that PS2 games are coming to PS4 in waves, priced at $9.99 to $14.99. The catch is, you cannot authenticate any compatible games with a disc, and you need to buy them all over again, even if you own it already in some form. It’s a far cry from Microsoft’s amazing backward compatibility rollout recently — in my mind, Microsoft and Sony have completely switched places in terms of current-gen functionality and image.
So anyway, with all that said, I will be getting Dark Cloud today on the PS4, even though I already own a physical copy. I want to support Level 5, and I’m anxious to work my way all the way up to the game’s superboss, Dark Knight Pendragon — one of my favorite endgame encounters of all time. Also, up-rendered 1080p is in, plus Remote Play, Live Broadcast, Share support, Activity Feeds, and Second Screen support for manuals, so it’s not all bad.
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