Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that the company has no plans to make the PlayStation Vita compatible with PlayStation 2 and/or PlayStation 3 games. This is a comprehensive faq about the new handheld.
In the list of frequently asked questions, Sony has posted on the official European PlayStation blog, is also the question dealt with whether the PlayStation Vita will be compatible with the other platforms of PlayStation. This answer Sony that there are no plans to games of the PlayStation 3 or the PlayStation 2 to make it suitable for use on the PlayStation Vita.
This refers to Sony, especially on downloadable games for the PlayStation 3, including the range of ‘PS2 Classics’ that Sony digital released for the PlayStation 3. In this offer there are other old classics like God Hand and SSX: On Tour. Although the PlayStation Vita, according to Sony some game-experience is not necessarily inferior to the PlayStation 3, these games will not be playable on the Vita.
The only backward compatibility that the PlayStation Vita is, with a number of PlayStation Portable games. Gamers who have a downloaded version of a PSP game made by Sony is included in a list with supported games, can the Vita version for free, download. The support does not apply for games that users on umd have purchased; these must be re-purchased if the user they are on the PlayStation Vita and wants to play.
Although Sony are in the faq so that there are no games for the PS2 or PS3 on the Vita can be played, it is not excluded that there are games that are for consoles appeared still Vita remakes released. Concrete examples thereof, there are, however, not yet.