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SCEA to shut down old PS2/PSP online servers

Posted on April 7th, 2008 at 06:33 EDT

According to website dbTechno, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) is planning on closing a number of online servers for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable software from June 30.

The list features over a dozen titles in total, including Lemmings on the PS2/PSP, along with PS2 titles Everybody’s Golf and Jak X.

It is currently unknown whether or not Sony Europe plans to follow similar measures.

For a full round up, see below.

PlayStation 2:

·    Amplitude
·    Destruction Derby Arenas
·    Everybody's Golf
·    EyeToy Chat
·    F1 '04
·    Jak X
·    Lemmings PS2
·    My Street
·    Syphon Filter Omega Strain
·    This is Football 2004
·    This is Football 2005
·    Twisted Metal: Black Online

PlayStation Portable:
·    Lemmings
·    World Tour Soccer 2

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posted 6:43am EDT - April 7th, 2008
1

They are still creating new games for the ps2, just shows how amazing the system was !

posted 7:14am EDT - April 7th, 2008
2

They closing it just to not lose money with games that no one plays  SOCOM and so on still has online so no need to worry :)

posted 7:40am EDT - April 7th, 2008
3
hey are the sims bustin out servers shut down? i always wanted to play that online but never could, i can now though, but i cant get to the home menu
posted 7:56am EDT - April 7th, 2008
4
can u play ps2 games....ONLINE on the ps3??? btw this news wont harm anyone im sure.. maybe SOCOM then we shud be upset but wud like it if some one answers my question thanks (Y)
posted 8:20am EDT - April 7th, 2008
5
Siphon Filter:Omega Strain was open all this time? I always wanted to try that despite the so-so reviews. Oh well, maybe Siphon Filter will find its way to the PS3. And yes, you can play PS2 games onlne with the PS3. But you have to grab the little (and free) patch to make it possible...it's on the PS Store. This was one of he very first complaints about the PS3 waaaay at the beginning. The patch came really quickly, but no one talks about it much because anyone who cares got it 4ever ago.
posted 8:47am EDT - April 7th, 2008
6

So hot shots golf on the ps3 wasnt the first one online? I wanna try it now. 

posted 9:08am EDT - April 7th, 2008
7

feel bad for the ppl that still play socom 2

posted 9:48am EDT - April 7th, 2008
8

Ya they are just games that no one really plays. 

 

PSN: DarkJ3JB

posted 10:46am EDT - April 7th, 2008
9

Doesn't really bother me.

posted 10:51am EDT - April 7th, 2008
10

Jak X was the game I played online most on the PS2...

Man, if the old online community was as big as it is now, games would probably have sold more! In almost none of my games, people played online!

posted 10:54am EDT - April 7th, 2008
11

Whew, Socom 2 is not on the list. I still play that game, and there are a lot of other people that do too!

posted 11:41am EDT - April 7th, 2008
12

yeah i wish playing ps2 games in ps3 no sign outs from psn

posted 11:42am EDT - April 7th, 2008
13

Wait... PSU, your only putting this up now? I've heard this a while back mon!!!

posted 11:45am EDT - April 7th, 2008
14
psn id: gingo.... makes sense as there will be very few players using those so its a waste or resources and muny
posted 12:19pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
15

Well, that was just a small list of games, but I think that SCEA's shutting down of certain game servers is just a way of nudging current PS2 owners to get a PS3. I think that one reason why some PS2 owners are still holding on to their PS2's and not getting PS3's is because PS2 games are still coming out and they're just content with playing PS2 games for now. Plus, the PS2's lifecycle will be about over in another year or two. I'm sure that games like SOCOM will be up and running until the PS2's lifecycle ends.

posted 12:28pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
16

i know this is not the list but they closed down tony hawks american wasteland i used to love doing parkour online and also skate and also they were some awesome people i used to talk to on there !!!. why can't sony leave the good games alone for

posted 12:28pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
17

i know this is not the list but they closed down tony hawks american wasteland i used to love doing parkour online and also skate and also they were some awesome people i used to talk to on there !!!. why can't sony leave the good games alone for

posted 5:55pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
18

Getting rid of the servers of the games no one plays on, smart move! Microsoft turned off all of it, every Xbox title that was online.

posted 12:10am EDT - April 9th, 2008
19

THe only one I would play is TMB and I don't even have the game.

posted 3:33pm EDT - April 11th, 2008
20

I never got to play Jak X online, What a bummer =(

posted 5:46pm EDT - April 18th, 2008
21

not Amplitude! that was awesome online, might get back into it now..

posted 10:26am EDT - April 30th, 2008
22

 wtf is "this is football"?

about time for sony to shut down the old servers.

even though its weird they keep releasing new ps2 titles......hmm

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