The senior VP of marketing agrees ”this stuff has an audience”, and Sony are doing their part to relaunch classic titles to ”lead by example”.
”We’re working really hard on it. We’re pushing the third-party community and evangelizing this as a terrific opportunity both commercially as well as from a brand perspective to keep people interested in some of these older IPs,” Dille tells IGN.
Last December, Final Fantasy VIII was the top downloaded game on the PlayStation Network - fans just snapped up the classic for PlayStation 3, with PSN boss Dille saying, ”this stuff has an audience.”
”From our side, we’re going through our own studio organization and trying to make sure all “these old games are out there so that we can lead by example, but we’re also communicating with all the third-parties about the success of the Final Fantasy games, and other PS1 and PS2 classics.”
”By all means, I think people can look for more of that because once the third-parties see how this works, it’s just found money. There’s not a whole lot of work that has to go into it and once we can get it up on the network, it finds an audience pretty quickly.”
As for full PlayStation 3 titles being downloadable over the PlayStation Network?
”No, I don’t think so – at least, not any time soon. Part of the reason for that is broadband. We have an advantage with PlayStation 3 from an optical media perspective because a Blu-ray disc contains 50 gigs.” That and HDD space would be a real issue.
What PSone or PS2 classic would you love to see make it on PlayStation Network?
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