{"id":532737,"date":"2025-10-28T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532737\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:57:13","slug":"sonys-social-media-tribute-to-the-ps2-borders-on-insulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532737\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s Social Media Tribute to the PS2 Borders on Insulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Sony&#039;s Social Media Tribute to the PS2 Borders on Insulting 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/01b8fb4d7dc90\/sonys-social-media-tribute-to-the-ps2-borders-on-insulting-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sonys-social-media-tribute-to-the-ps2-borders-on-insulting-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Sony's Social Media Tribute to the PS2 Borders on Insulting 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The legendary PS2 celebrated its 25th anniversary in North America over the weekend, and Sony\u2019s social media tribute bordered on insulting.<\/p>\n<p>The company took the opportunity to promote its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/guides\/all-ps-plus-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PS Plus Premium<\/strong><\/a> retro games, which makes sense, until you realise it\u2019s missing many of the system\u2019s most memorable releases.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>Celebrate PS2&#8217;s 25th anniversary with legendary games available in the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C6502TLSiX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/C6502TLSiX<\/a>\u2014 PlayStation (@PlayStation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStation\/status\/1982880350104690838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trailer focuses on the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/jak_and_daxter_the_precursor_legacy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jak &amp; Daxter: The Precursor Legacy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/mister_mosquito\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mister Mosquito<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/dark_cloud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Cloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/siren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siren<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/sly_cooper_and_the_thievius_raccoonus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sly Cooper<\/a>. All great games!<\/p>\n<p>But as fans have pointed out in the replies, there are so many incredible PS2 games missing from the selection, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/god_of_war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">God of War<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/ratchet_and_clank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ratchet &amp; Clank<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/ico\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICO<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/twisted_metal_2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twisted Metal Black<\/a> to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/soulcalibur_iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoulCalibur 3<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/tomb_raider_anniversary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomb Raider Anniversary<\/a> have been announced for the service, and are due out in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>We also think it\u2019s positive Sony\u2019s stuck with this retro initiative, and continued to iterate on its emulator and bring more classic games to its contemporary consoles.<\/p>\n<p>But we don\u2019t think we\u2019re being greedy to ask for more.<\/p>\n<p>The rollout of these retro releases has been glacially paced, and there\u2019s still so much the company could make readily available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/tags\/ps-store\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PS Store<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping it\u2019s not ignoring the criticism and begins to expedite the addition of these classic games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sammy Barker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary PS2 celebrated its 25th anniversary in North America over the weekend, and Sony\u2019s social media tribute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[25594,2974,341,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-532737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ps-plus","tag-ps2","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115450494736904829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}