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Why aren't the classic Tomb Raider games available on PS4/modern consoles?

More_Badass

More_Badass

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Oct 25, 2017
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The PS One classics are playable on PS3, but I was surprised that there was no current gen bundle/re-release. They aren't even on PS Now.

I mainly ask because I ran into annoying flickering and frame rate issues trying to play the second game on PC, so had been hoping that I get them on PS4. So it was surprising to see that the old games are complete non-entities.
 
Blackpuppy

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They did release the first two games on iOS but I think they were later pulled. They were pretty good ports including redone textures and controller support.
 
Oldmario

Oldmario

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Oct 25, 2017
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i thought they were doing some sort of FFIX like remaster and adding analog controls to them with HD textures, i guess they silently killed that
 

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I've been wondering myself. Ever since the 2013 reboot dropped, the legacy games (from the very first game in 1996 all the way to Underworld) just... kinda disappeared. They have a series of beloved games. They could easily sell two remastered collections to a lot of people (original saga: 1-5), Legend trilogy (Legend-Underworld), but for some reason they don't.
 
Lowblood

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Oct 30, 2017
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The Legend trilogy is backwards compatible on Xbox One, at least.

I wish Square would do more with Tomb Raider in general, but I guess they're content with a new game every few years.
 
Jegriva

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Lowblood said:
The Legend trilogy is backwards compatible on Xbox One, at least.

I wish Square would do more with Tomb Raider in general, but I guess they're content with a new game every few years.
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But Tomb Raider Legend on 360 was surprisingly bad. The OGXbox was 60fps, on 360 it was 30fps.
 
rodrigolfp

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TransEuropaExpress

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I'd love to have these as a bundle on PS4 as well actually. I still replay TR1 through Revelation here and there, they're great and unique games.
 
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