Resistance's Release on PS Plus Premium Proves There's Still a Fanbase for the FPS 1

This week’s PS Plus Premium update announcement temporarily stopped the heart of this author – and the hearts of thousands of PlayStation fans around the world. When we saw PS3 launch title Resistance: Fall of Man and its sequel Resistance 2 listed alongside other PS1 classics like Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, we thought Sony had done the impossible.

It hasn’t, of course – the legendary Insomniac first-person shooters will only be available to stream.

But to make matters more misleading, there was no reference to that fact in Sony’s PS Blog post – in fact, we confirmed they’ll only be available via the cloud by cross-referencing the LATAM article, which doesn’t support the feature. Both Resistance games were missing there.

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Still, this reaction – and, to a similar extent, the recent outpouring of love for Killzone 2 – demonstrates just how much PlayStation fans want to play their PS3 titles natively on more modern hardware. The complicated architecture of Sony’s last-last-gen console does make that difficult, but there’s an appetite to revisit the likes of inFAMOUS, Puppeteer, and MotorStorm.

We do think Sony’s done a much better job of bringing back classics to PS Plus Premium of late, but the glacial pace at which the company’s been expanding the library means we’re unlikely to see PS3 additions for eons – if at all.

We’d like to think the Japanese giant’s aware there is a market for either ports or emulated versions of some of its biggest last-last-gen hits, though. It’s a crime so many releases are stuck on the 2006 system, so let’s hope at some point Sony finds a way to allow us to revisit these games.

[source blog.playstation.com]