Sega has made a boo-boo and leaked confidential documents from a meeting held with Sony Computer Entertainment America on August 5th this year. The link has been taken down, but luckily someone over at NeoGAF got everything down beforehand.
The documents reveal that “SCEA wants to sell all PS2 titles on PSN.” Whether or not that means every game will be remastered, such as the God of War Collection, or if Sony’s figured out a way to emulate PS2 games on all the current hardware, is unknown. However, they mention Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in the documents. This is all mentioned under the title: “PS2 emulator for PS3 (confidential)”.
Also mentioned in the leaked documents was Yakuza, suggesting that SCEA “could put Japanese games directly on PSN for download in a special Japanese Import section”, but “[may] need to localize menus at least with subtitles.”
Finally, the PS3 Motion Controller. It’ll be launching in Spring 2010 in the west and in March 2010 in Japan. Sony plans on selling four to five million units globally.
As a little bonus, there’s the opportunity of releasing Dreamcast titles on the PlayStation Network. The document says that “If we provide a list of DC titles SCEA will let us know which ones they’re interested in having exclusively,” going on to conclude, “If we give them a long period of exclusivity they’ll give us more marketing support.”
A game named Vanquish was also mentioned. Any idea on what that could be?
Thanks, GameZine.
And the no-secrets-can-be-kept streak continues. I really feel sorry for Sony because they just can’t seem to keep anything under their hat before they have time to get their marketing teams behind any new initiatives. At least it wasn’t Sony themselves that blew this whistle but Sega should’ve been more responsible knowing full well that Sony has a bad reputation (at least as of late) when it comes to keeping big reveals under wraps.
On the other hand, this is awesome news but only if it means that PS2 discs can be played, not just remastering PS2 games and selling them on the PSN Store. While I’d love to download MGS2 and a few other PS2 classics I think fans would like to boot up their current PS2 library rather than re-buy everything.
I mean really…. Did anyone think that Sony wouldn’t find a way to make more money from PS2 games in the PS3 generation? We ALL knew this was coming without any special leaks.
I think we all suspected that Sony would do this eventually but it just sucks, for Sony, that they can’t control when they decide to make an official announcement. I’m just trying to imagine being on the marketing team and learning that all the steam about a new announcement has been taken out by leaks and confidential documents being thrown all over the place.
It’s like throwing a surprise party for your friend/relative but they know everything about it before hand.
So can Sony do anything about Sega leaking this? I mean legally Sony could sue Sega, but seeing as Sega releases games on their hardware it would be counter productive. This sucks. Sony really needs to tighten up the leaks. I’m glad they don’t work for witness protection.