The PS3 generation of consoles, including the Xbox 360, was the first time a lot of classic franchises and games received the HD treatment. As one example, Shadow of the Colossus was given a facelift. This trend continued into this current generation of consoles with the PS4 and Xbox One.
However, there are still a lot of games trapped on the previous consoles. Most of these games are indeed exclusive to the PS3, but some of them may have an invisible asterisk next to them. All will become clear once one reads on.
10 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots
Most Metal Gear Solid games have been ported to heck and back. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater even received enhanced expansions. Given this trend, one would have expected Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to get the same treatment, but the only update this ever received past its initial 2008 release was a trophy patch.
That’s it.
It has never even winked at the chance of getting porting somewhere else. This act is simply criminal Konami.
9 Resistance: Fall Of Man
Resistance: Fall of Man was a launch title for the PS3. Instead of a cute Lombax shooting robots, aka Ratchet and Clank, Insomniac Games wanted to create a more realistic shooter with a sci-fi twist on WWII.
The trilogy on the PS3 is trapped on the system, with the franchise's only other releases being two portable spinoffs for the PSP and PlayStation Vita respectively. The fact a five-piece collection, or at the very least an updated trilogy package, has not released on the PS4 yet is crazy. It wasn’t the best shooter of its era, but Resistance was still a memorable one. Oh well, maybe on the PlayStation 5
8 Heavenly Sword
Another launch game for the PS3 was Heavenly Sword. While it could be marked off as just a God of War clone, but with a girl, it's much more than that. Perhaps the graphics haven't aged as well, but at the time the face capturing technology was tremendously advanced.
This can be thanked in part to Andy Serkis lending his talents to the game. Because Microsoft now owns the studio, Ninja Theory, it may be tricky to hammer out a deal for a port, but hopefully, it can one day happen.
7 PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Yes, putting PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale on here is a controversial pick. It is not the greatest Super Smash Bros. clone out there, but dang it, Sony tried. It is beyond belief that they couldn’t seal the deal with Activision to get Crash Bandicoot in it, or Square Enix to get Cloud. Nintendo somehow did it and Cloud had never even been on a Nintendo platform before. There are so many baffling decisions built within, but bad, or not, it deserves a second chance on newer platforms. Dare we even wish for a sequel?
6 inFAMOUS
The inFAMOUS franchise just turned ten this past May and not even a handful of confetti was tossed for it. The two games may not visually hold up as well on PS4, but the third one still showcases how good PS4 games can look. If not a sequel then the first two games should have had an HD collection by now.
How can terrible games like Cel Damage keep getting HD ports and this nothing? The world deserves more good superhero games like this even if it lacks an iconic logo like Marvel.
5 Demon's Souls
Demon's Souls put FromSoftware on the map. Before this, the studio/publisher was mostly known for churning out Armored Core games like the Amish churn butter. That is to say, they made a lot of them.
Prior to this they also made RPGs like King’s Field in the same vein. Demon's Souls then is almost like a spiritual successor while still being mostly its own thing. The point is it was a phenomenon that kept getting bigger with every new Souls-type release. Why this groundbreaking gem remains exclusive on the PS3 is simply ridiculous.
4 Tokyo Jungle
Tokyo Jungle is such a silly game, but we absolutely adore it. In case some don’t remember, this takes place in the post-apocalyptic zone of Tokyo. Everyone died in a horrific event, but all of the wildlife did not. That means that Tokyo is now being rebuilt by Mother Earth and her many critters.
Players can be herbivores like Antelope, or tiny little carnivorous Pomeranians. There are so many choices in this Darwinian version of Battle Royale. It is rough around the edges, but a good time nonetheless.
3 Puppeteer
Sony sort of shot itself in the foot when they released Puppeteer on PS3 just a month before the PS4. That is to say, a lot of gamers probably missed out on it due to the platform's impending irrelevance.
Well, people, this might be the best platformer on PS3 that nobody played. As much as we love LittleBigPlanet, the controls kind of stink. Puppeteer simply has better gameplay and just as much creativity in its stage play like aesthetic.
2 Drakengard 3
Drakengard 3 is another example of a game releasing too late on the console. Outside of Japan, Drakengard 3 launched in May 2014 long after the PS4’s debut. For those unaware, the Drakengard series is actually the predecessor for Nier.
Nier was actually a spinoff of a what-if scenario based on one of Drakengard 2's endings. Since NieR: Automata built up the series' cred, it's about time this got a port along with the first two games which were PS2 exclusives.
1 Fat Princess
Fat Princess was a fun twist on the multiplayer classic mode of capture the flag. Instead of teams trying to literally do that, they instead had to capture the neighboring kingdom’s princess. In order to make it harder for opponents, players could feed said princess cake to make her fat and thus heavier to escort away.
Fat Princess is still one of the silliest multiplier games out there. It later got a port to PSP too, but that still makes it a Sony exclusive trapped on old hardware.