Peter Dille, Sony's senior Marketing VP and Manager of the PlayStation Network, has explained during a recent interview with IGN that PlayStation 2 Classics may finally make an appearance on the PlayStation Store, which is fantastic news given plans to roll-out backwards compatibility to non-60GB PlayStation 3s have died a tragic death.

Dille’s words were:

"We're working really hard on it. We're pushing the third-party community and evangelizing this as a terrific opportunity both commercially as well as from a brand perspective to keep people interested in some of these older IPs [...] From our side, we’re going through our own studio organization and trying to make sure all these old games are out there so that we can lead by example, but we’re also communicating with all the third-parties about the success of the Final Fantasy games, and other PS1 and PS2 classics."

As much as gaming has evolved and improved tremendously over the last few years, there's no denying that the PlayStation 2 software catalogue consisted of some absolute marvels: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, SSX 3, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, Black, Devil May Cry 3... the list goes on and on.

While we appreciate Dille's comments are by no means official confirmation, this news already has us reliving our fondest PlayStation 2 gaming moments in 720p.