
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:'

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
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
I stick with the hard copies anyway. That way they will be valuable in 10 - 15 years.
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
they need to put mgs 1 on the european psn store asap
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.