PS games for PSP now on PS3

Sony updates its new console's PlayStation Store with five older games that work on the company's handheld system.

Sony took its first steps into the world of retro gaming today when it updated its PlayStation 3 online storefront with downloadable versions of five original PlayStation games that can be enjoyed on the PlayStation Portable.

The first slate of PS games to arrive on the system include a sampling of Sony-published PS hits, as well as one title from third-party publisher Namco. The currently available titles are Sony's Crash Bandicoot, Cool Boarders, Syphon Filter, and Hot Shots Golf 2, as well as Namco's Tekken 2. Each game costs $5.99 and carries a disclaimer that multiplayer functions in the games won't work because the games have not been altered to support the portable system's Wi-Fi functionality.

To play the games, customers will need to first download the games to their PS3s from the PlayStation Store, then transfer them via a USB cable to a PSP with a memory card that contains enough free space. The games range in size from 157MB (Hot Shots Golf 2) to 535MB (Tekken 2). Once downloaded, each game can be copied for use on up to five different PSP systems before it locks itself.

413 Comments

  • PS3Compass

    Posted Nov 19, 2007 3:58 pm PT

    Syphon Filter rocks!

  • big13

    Posted May 21, 2007 9:20 pm PT

    so any of u know the games available for the psp? has any of you tried psp blender or any of those sites or their scams?

  • lukediddle

    Posted Apr 20, 2007 2:29 am PT

    Yeah, firmware 1.7 lets you play em on PS3 now.. but where the hell do I get the games? lol I don't see em on the store.. and c'mon, Final Fantasy 7 8 or 9 HAS to be a download in the future... how awsome, deent final fantasy game on your PSP for those long and boring family holidays, lol.

  • DrKill09

    Posted Apr 19, 2007 2:41 pm PT

    I want this, but I don't want to get a PS3 just for this

  • UrFaceIzDum

    Posted Mar 10, 2007 5:30 pm PT

    i dont wanna buy a ps3 this sucks

  • xspboy06x

    Posted Mar 10, 2007 12:48 pm PT

    Ctg867's got it right. Wii may be a cool system and all but the PlayStation consoles always have and always will be better. Yes, DOOM_SONYMAN, Crash is the best.

    I just re-read my review for the game and I was a total amateur back then. My opinion of Crash's debut has gotten even higher since then, as I enjoy the environment of the game (particularly the following levels: Pinstripe, Lights Out, Fumbling in the Dark, Nitrus Brio, the Lab, the Great Hall, and Dr. Neo Cortex). I also like the music of those 7 levels better then the rest of the astonishing soundtrack.

    Top it all off with variety, a classic story with a new twist, and great gameplay and you've got a marvelous game.

  • ctg867

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 3:38 pm PT

    Give it a rest with the Sony hate. Really. I don't see the Wii with more then one game to play, unlike the PS3 that has at handful as of now. I don't see the Wii with VC games that bring extra content or anything, so don't knock Sony for lacking with the PSone games. I don't see any Wii/DS connectivity, so don't complain when Sony is actually trying to do something with it's handheld and it's console. Don't knock Sony when Nintendo is on the other side of the road making a mess of itself

  • hardhittin12

    Posted Feb 25, 2007 3:54 pm PT

    Well in time ya can put the games right onto your PSP but just gotta wait

  • Petshopboy

    Posted Feb 20, 2007 1:14 pm PT

    Another PS3 only plug? This would be such an awesome idea if you could just get the games online or buy them at a store somewhere.

  • DOOM_SONYMAN

    Posted Jan 27, 2007 6:59 am PT

    i love sony so much!!!! CRASH IS THE BEST

  • JDawg1506

    Posted Jan 10, 2007 8:06 pm PT

    I think the PS3 has suprisingly been a big disappointment . I hope this does not ruin their reputation in the industry. If fans are truly going to spend $700 for this system their needs to be some sort of free download service to make up for the LACK of games they seemed to have provided at the initial release. And why not ? Since the playstation one had some of the most popular RPG games. Sony is not offering enough incentives for fans to really cough up and arm and a leg for their new system, they should really consider what fans really want in the near future, and that is probably an expansive library of games at the same time the option of playing the memorable classics!

  • nihuna

    Posted Jan 8, 2007 8:11 pm PT

    "Broadband internet: 50$ a month
    2Gig mem stick: 80$
    PSP 250$
    PS3 600$
    PS1 game online 5$
    Pointing at nintendo and saying STUFF IT UP YOUR ARSE

    and acutally mean it

    Priceless! "


    Or you could say highway ripoff, and now I am stuck with the two most lacking systems on the market, and the most likely to be future dreamcasts/game gear. But hey, your call. =P

  • IcejunkTyrant

    Posted Jan 1, 2007 11:55 am PT

    Broadband internet: 50$ a month
    2Gig mem stick: 80$
    PSP 250$
    PS3 600$
    PS1 game online 5$
    Pointing at nintendo and saying STUFF IT UP YOUR ARSE

    and acutally mean it

    Priceless!

  • Carl0009

    Posted Dec 27, 2006 6:42 pm PT

    If just FFVII is realesed...

  • obodotG

    Posted Dec 27, 2006 6:10 pm PT

    Dark_Alex has released his new custom firmware. this means that you can play just about ANY ps1 game for FREE!! (if you have it)

    not to mention there's full gba emulation through gpsp (no lag at all)

  • _Sam_

    Posted Dec 16, 2006 3:12 pm PT

    When I get a ps3 I'll get this

  • OrangeGilkey5

    Posted Dec 15, 2006 10:00 am PT

    I'll just buy a PSP memory card loaded up with PS One games off of Ebay.

  • yugimasa9999

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 11:19 am PT

    Is it playable on the PS3...until the next firmware perhaps !

  • CamisadoBlue

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 9:39 am PT

    Bring on Final Fantasy 7 on PSP!!!! woo!!!

  • solid_sponge

    Posted Dec 13, 2006 5:48 am PT

    masterXCYN
    Yeh, because that's really gonna kill off the DS isn't it!?
    Another wise move by Sony. Making retro PS games available, but only via PS3!? Do they really think that this is going to help sales of the PS3? Like people are going to go out and spend $600 just so they can play a 10 year old game!!

  • Zero254

    Posted Dec 12, 2006 7:07 pm PT

    WHAT!!!!! I GOT TO PAY 599USD THEN MOVE THE DECIMAL POINT TO THE LEFT TWICE!!!!!
    I might as well just buy a flip top and a battery for my psx and play it like that.
    I got dark ressurection but I would love playing Star Ocean on the go.
    They should have download stations where you have to buy a point card and put money on it.
    Sony's demo downloads suck also.

  • Beesond

    Posted Dec 12, 2006 1:50 pm PT

    What happened to the kiask thingy in stores where you could do the same thingy? I am sure they may still have that, so dont worry about holy crap.

  • Trogeton

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 7:07 pm PT

    This topic has been up for a good little while now, I wouldnt even put things here that are even relevent anymore... Hardly anyone even plays ps1 games anymore.. dont cry over spilled milk, no one is making anyone buy anything you are acting like you are losing your best friend here.. just make good at what you got.. dont worry about this, besides the ps2 games is whats really the thing going on with the compatablity and the ps3 n just be happy

  • Built

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 6:57 pm PT

    arrr matey... its dem tings like dese dat make us go forth to our piracy ways.... arrrrrgh...

  • CerebralShadow

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 4:57 pm PT

    This is bull! I have always liked sony and defended them but this is just stupid. To make people buy the PS3 just to download PS games for there PSP.

  • Eduardo360

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 4:07 pm PT

    thats dum

  • Hatate

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 11:20 am PT

    Well that's dumb.

  • OrianaDorta

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 9:33 am PT

    I agree with you, jonb2003

  • CLRH2O

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 9:25 am PT

    And what of us who have owned a PSP since April 2005 but have no plans for buying a PS3? I guess it leaves only one choice.......|-|0m3br3w.

    Put simply, I'm not going to pay 600 dollars to have the middleman hardware with which to transfer a game ISO to my PSP. That's ridiculous.

    If I could download them via the Sony Entertainment site to my PC then go USB transfer to the PSP - Sure, fair game and I'd be all over it. Thunder Force 5, R-Type Delta, Ray Crisis and more... WHAT?! That's what I'm talking about!

  • speedeamongt

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 8:48 am PT

    It's a good idea but it would be alot better if you could play it on the PS3 as well. Like whats that problem with that?

  • KOSMOSEngineer

    Posted Dec 11, 2006 7:11 am PT

    Yeah I got to get a hold of Xenogears, I never got to play that, this would be a good chance to.

  • MOHAMMAD-ALI

    Posted Dec 10, 2006 11:39 pm PT

    das kinda cool but it would be betta if peepes could download games from tha psp site to their psp not through tha ps3

  • jonb2003

    Posted Dec 10, 2006 7:01 pm PT

    I JUST WANT RE ON THE PSP

  • masterXCYN

    Posted Dec 10, 2006 6:29 pm PT

    they better add Vagrant Story and PE 2, I'll hate u sony for good if you dont do my request, lol

    the psp survived the ds, I say nintendo cant relax on the handheld department anymore.

  • Tigerman950

    Posted Dec 10, 2006 4:56 pm PT

    Man do I absolutely HAVE to have a PS3 do be able to do that?

  • Seft_Blade416

    Posted Dec 10, 2006 3:38 pm PT

    I would die if they had Star Ocean 2: The Second Story for download =) but thats just me XD

  • Warom

    Posted Dec 10, 2006 2:35 am PT

    Some games are so good

    I think on a smaller screen the graphics will also seem better. I cant wait for FF9, it was my favorite game fro ps1.

  • lamech777

    Posted Dec 10, 2006 12:22 am PT

    Think I hear a toilet flushing somewheres...I believe its $ony's business going down the tubes.

  • CommonerChaos

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 11:49 pm PT

    Yea, no one else has contested Nintendo in the handheld business. I say that they didn't do that bad for their first handheld. A lot could be in the future for sony in the handheld business...

  • Tungsten88

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 8:30 pm PT

    Come to think about it...the PSP is the only handheld thats actually put up a fight to Nintendo. Got to congradulate Sony on that one

  • Tungsten88

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 8:15 pm PT

    (PS1 games ---> PC---> PSP) results in (my $---> Sony)

  • SpunkieMunkie

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 6:53 pm PT

    I am so going out there and spending some of that money I saved up for to pay my college loans. I can download games for my PSP for 600+ or buy them for 50.

    When will Sony realize that making bad decisions like Sega will hurt them?

  • newoldrenegade

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 3:38 pm PT

    F u chavagnatze

  • StripesOrBars

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 2:58 pm PT

    Sony tries so hard to make Nintendo look bad, lol.

  • Chavagnatze

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 2:51 pm PT

    He was being sarcastic.

  • MoodyFlame

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 9:26 am PT

    i hope they make them PC downloadable...

  • ToddTT

    Posted Dec 9, 2006 6:12 am PT

    So for just $250 (original price of PSP), and $600 for a PS3, and an hour of twiddling with cables, inputting credit card info, downloading and transferring, we can play PS1 games again?!?

    Awesome!

    I wonder if Sony will buy me dinner first, and hold me afterwards.

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