SCEA promotes three to Greatest Hits status

Sony Computer Entertainment America has tapped three titles for its PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits lineup.

They are the PS2's online killer app SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs and the action platformers Ratchet & Clank and Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. SCEA didn't reveal pricing for the new versions, but Greatest Hits titles usually weigh in at between $19.99 and $24.99.

To qualify as a PS2 Greatest Hits game, a game must have been on the market for one year with 400,000 copies produced, it must have sold more than 250,000 units, and it must be deemed to have increased demand for PS2 hardware.

These criteria are different from those set forth with regard to the February 2002 announcement of the PS2 Greatest Hits lineup. Previously, a Greatest Hits title was required to have been in circulation for nine months and to have sold 400,000 before getting the red-package treatment.

SCEA says there are now 52 Greatest Hits games for the PS2 out of about 550 games available today in North America. The company says there are 169 PS Greatest Hits games out of some 1,300 games currently available.