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Sony explains why PSOne Classics have no set release dates

Examiner: 'Ever since Sony announced PSOne Classics for the PSP and Playstation 3, new releases have been inconsistent and often appear suddenly without any prior announcements. Grace Chen, Senior Manager of the PlayStation Store, explain why this is the case on the comment section of the Playstation.Blog:'
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Published: 47 days 10 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Sony PSP
 
 

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sinncross - 47 days 10 hours ago
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Licensing is a massive reason for the shortage of PS1Classics for Europe, I assume.

Since for something to be Ok'd for the European PSN, it has to be Ok'd for each country and in some cases, PS1 games were published more then one publisher in Europe depending on the country.

Pity, but understandable. Hopefully this doesn't mean that PS2 games on the PSN, when they do eventfully arrive, will take this long to materialise
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Knightrid808 - 47 days 10 hours ago
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You nailed it.

Its annoying when you see people who don't understand this b!tching at Sony for not bringing the games on the Playstation store. If anything, they should be doing that to the publishers themselves.
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Bathyj - 47 days 9 hours ago
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Whats even more annoying is that Australia gets lumped in with Europe and misses out because of your problems.

Bloody hell, its enough to turn a man to drink.

And spare a thought for NZ, Australias Canada, you just know they get it even worse.
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ReservoirDog316 - 47 days 9 hours ago
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I just want FF VIII. Is that so much to ask?

I don't care if sony, the publisher, ms, nintendo or the ghost of hitler is the reason why I don't have it. I just really want it.
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ReviewsArePolitics - 47 days 8 hours ago
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"Its annoying when you see people who don't understand this b!tching at Sony for not bringing the games on the Playstation store"

Uh, it's Sony's responsibility to make their PSN service more appealing to people, and to convince third parties. It may be Sony's fault that third parties are not as interested in supporting PS1 downloads right now. Either way, everyone has to pressure Sony AND the third party publishers, but Sony has to actively make their service better. If third parties don't want to sell on PSN yet, they may have a good reason and in the end it's Sony who has to allow it to happen because its their service.
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Whitefox789 - 47 days 8 hours ago
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It just got released to the Japanese PSN so we should be seeing it soon.

Unless they have it on the front page as advertisement instead of featured content.
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SaiyanFury - 46 days 22 hours ago
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Yeah Sony recently released FFVIII on the Japanese PS Store. They also released FF Tactics on the PS store and it came out on the US Store about a month later. We can hope.
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stewgart - 47 days 10 hours ago
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I stick with the hard copies anyway. That way they will be valuable in 10 - 15 years.
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Sprud - 47 days 9 hours ago
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Most likely not if that particular game can simply be downloaded from PSN instead :]
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Whitefox789 - 47 days 8 hours ago
2.2 - For instance
I actually just bought a copy of Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen; Case, Instruction Manual, Cover Art, and of course CD all for $25 instead of just downloading it off the PSN for $6
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DaTruth - 46 days 19 hours ago
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I can't play hard copies on my PSP, where I do a majority of my PSone classics playing! That is why I'm looking for Tenchu 1 on PSN, even though I have the hard copy!

That game has the perfect format for portable gameplaying!
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Carl1412 - 47 days 9 hours ago
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What i don't understand, is that...

If the rights have been all sorted out, and the game has been released on the US store, why can't it be released on the EU stores? Surely if all the rights are agreed upon in one market, they're agreed upon worldwide? It's not as if there are different voice actors etc between the US/EU
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PELVIC THRUST ACTION - 46 days 16 hours ago
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Different rights. What may be just one company in the US is multiple in Europe. Plus it has to get rerated by Pegi just like the US has to get their games rerated by the ESRB.
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Erich Rhoemer - 47 days 9 hours ago
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they need to put mgs 1 on the european psn store asap
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XXXCouture - 47 days 9 hours ago
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im pretty sure theyre working on it
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Cajun Chicken - 47 days 9 hours ago
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Also still don't have Crash 2 but do have Crash 1, Crash 3 and CTR. Any REASON for THIS Sony?!?
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NecrumSlavery - 47 days 8 hours ago
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I haven't really seen the reason they haven't just dumped the entire PS One library into the store. Even japan gets classics 5-10 at a time.
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Redempteur - 47 days 8 hours ago
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Music cleareances ??

When the game is already finished and no one is modifying the game ??

i understand code testing ... but this ???
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johnmark1982 - 47 days 8 hours ago
7 - lol wow
i love having digital copies for games its a real space saver but i would love to see how they plan on getting another 40 games on there in the next 7weeks before the end of the year
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spektical - 47 days 5 hours ago
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i dont think they will ... =/ hopefully, but i doubt it
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champ21 - 47 days 2 hours ago
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PSone & PStwo classics are best played on the pc ;-)

It really does everything.
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DaTruth - 46 days 19 hours ago
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That's true; If anything actually does everything, it is the PC!

But it's easier to carry my PSP around for portable gameplay than a laptop. But if you happen to be carrying a laptop around anyway, then yes again!
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