Reversal: PS3, Vita, And PSP Stores To No Longer Close Permanently

[OmegaRejectz]

1 hour ago, Cryogenicide_X said:

Maybe Sony have done this for a specific reason? Maybe they are going to add PS1,PS2, PS3 backwards compatibility or something. Or maybe they are going to add as many of those games onto PlayStation Now to boost it which makes sense. I'd imagine a hell of a lot more people would subscribe to it knowing that all those games have gone on there or are going to. I mean let's face it, Sony do need to compete better with PS Now because compared to Game Pass, not even in the same league. Surely Sony know how much of a success it is for Microsoft Xbox. 

 

All these things happening at around the same time seems to coincidental. The offer of PS Now for $1. The patent to add trophies to games that haven't got them. The closure of the PS Stores, it must be setting something up for something bigger later on down the line. 

PS3 is garbage to emulate. Yeah, they might add more titles to PS Now but:

1) it’s not available in tons of regions

2) it’s streaming, if you don’t have good internet you’re boned

3) while some PS Now games have all their DLCs, most don’t because they only give them all the DLCs if they had a “complete edition” to begin with

[aishsha]

5 minutes ago, KingSkovald said:

I have a Japanese PS2 but don't have any games for it, bought only for collection. I feel like I might start to import some JP stuff for it soon, had Disaster Report series in mind to start with

 

I think you can actually remove region locks with HD loader-like tools.

[SnowxSakura]

15 minutes ago, aishsha said:

I think you can actually remove region locks with HD loader-like tools.

Yeah, freemcboot + HDLoader

[Lance_87]

1 hour ago, HeySumbode said:

Those apps still work at the moment.
Youtube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Prime Video, Spotify, Plex and Red Bull TV.
Netflix even had a new patch (2.36) when I checked... lol
Not sure about the apps for other regions.

 

2.36? Last time i checked it was 1.22 O_o"

 

Anyway, i've just discovered that certain Vita content is NOT downloadable from the PS3. Just a small batch of DLC and apparently ALL themes. You need to use that goddamn Vita download list...

Edited March 30, 2021 by Lance_87

[Sendai-Horatio]

2 hours ago, Lance_87 said:

 

There's a "little" difference between delisting some games and mass-removing entire generations of games from sale.

 

Do you seriously think Valve will wake up some day and say "sorry buds, no more games from before 200X"?

They just did it to adult games in a few countries like that.

[Lance_87]

7 minutes ago, Sendai-Horatio said:

They just did it to adult games in a few countries like that.

 

Still not the same thing. They were eventually sold in alternative stores anyway.

[HMS_Victor]

6 hours ago, diskdocx said:

I stand corrected, you are 100% right. In fact, in the fine print it even says the code expires in 2016. Still crappy that the code lasted less than 2 yrs from when the game launched.

Problem with these is if they are rushed, and they have any issues, they can't be patched. So rare-ass trophies and probably a lot of broken games and trophy lists.

 

#FuckSony

 

It's so weird because the European and Australian boxes say their Sly 3 code has any expiry date in 2020. Why would they have a longer date?

 

2 hours ago, HeySumbode said:

Those apps still work at the moment.
Youtube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Prime Video, Spotify, Plex and Red Bull TV.
Netflix even had a new patch (2.36) when I checked... lol
Not sure about the apps for other regions.

 

I started up my PS3 (UK) earlier this year after not using it for about 2 years and saw that a lot of our Catch Up TV apps here weren't working anymore. BBC iPlayer, All4, My5, (not sure if ITV Hub was on there as well) are all not supported anymore. The only apps I ended up keeping were Netflix, Prime and YouTube

Edited March 30, 2021 by HMS_Victor

[AJ_Radio]

20 hours ago, Slim Vanilla said:

Today is my first day putting up with another bullshit lockdown in my city of residence. I wake up like any other quiet day at home, make myself breakfast then go straight to boot up my laptop. I’m then greeted by an official message confirming the Legacy PlayStation Store closure. Is this some kind of early April Fools joke... No? Well shit.

 

Can’t say I never expected this be announced so soon but a massive fucking loss to us regardless. Hope Sony is very happy with how ol’ Jimbo is running things since the company’s 2016 migration to California. Why must everything I love go to shit around the same time Donald Trump was elected US President?

 

By the way, is there a reason July and August were chosen as the dates/months to close the PS3 and Vita stores respectively? If Sony could give PS Plus heck, even DRIVECLUB a entire years notice before discontinuing a service/product then why not the same for blocking access to thousands of digital goods? Is March 31st 2022 just not good enough for you? How about December 31st 2021, is that still not good enough? Hello... anyone from Sony listening? Uhhh...

 

From here, I picture PS3 and Vita content becoming my number one priority for purchases over the next couple of months. Trophy syncing better not be taken away soon either otherwise I’m done with these consoles entirely. Removing support of old consoles is one thing, but in the age of the internet that’s just not very feasible. Already it’s not very difficult to compare PlayStation to Apple or some other big corporation that makes decisions based purely on making a big fat profit and creating consumer inconvenience which can also lead to more money.

Very well said and very well written my friend. 
 

I’m doing more stuff digital now than I ever did in the past. I have like 30 years worth of gaming history in my Steam library, why Sony can’t deal with their older library is beyond me. 
 

Jim Ryan looks far too old to be the norm for the average gaming audience which already tells me he’s a salty old business executive just interested in profits. He’s really not that much different from the current CEO of Apple or Activision. 
 

They’re taking away PS3/Vita games and movies because they’re not profitable, even though there has consistently been an audience for both. 
 

People who aren’t familiar with Sony’s gaming history and show a lack of care don’t deserve to be in a position of power. It has happened to many other companies here in America in the past. Before they know it they’re laying off a lot of their employees while their top people get all the bonuses and big paychecks. 
 

Ask a grunt worker at EA or Activision working overtime and tell me they’re having a great time. The crunch culture is a cancer. Developers who put in all the actual hard work get shafted while the business executives sit in a conference all day and don’t do jack shit.

[aishsha]

39 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

Ask a grunt worker at EA or Activision working overtime and tell me they’re having a great time.

EA at least learns on its stupidity and shitstorms it swallows. Very rarely, but it does - Dragon Age as a an example. As for SCEI guys... not very likely.

[DEADLOCKED11]

Does this affect the availability of updates/patches for disc games?

[IntroPhenom]

So Vita messaging is affected. What about ad hoc Vita trophies, such as from Epic Mickey 2?

[Sendai-Horatio]

32 minutes ago, DEADLOCKED11 said:

Does this affect the availability of updates/patches for disc games?

No because PSNow would still need them.

Edited March 31, 2021 by Sendai-Horatio

[SnowxSakura]

3 hours ago, Lance_87 said:

 

2.36? Last time i checked it was 1.22 O_o"

 

Anyway, i've just discovered that certain Vita content is NOT downloadable from the PS3. Just a small batch of DLC and apparently ALL themes. You need to use that goddamn Vita download list...

The vita download list is awful, why does it have to show ps3 stuff on it

[Kishnabe]

1 hour ago, DEADLOCKED11 said:

Does this affect the availability of updates/patches for disc games?

Devs can't send in new patches after Store Shutdown.  

 

You can still access previous patches that have been implemented.

 

 

[Hwoarang_21]

15 hours ago, WILD DOG said:

 

It's mainly for preservation sake. And not really on PS3 side as far as I'm aware. 

You didnt answer any of my Questions.

[Baka_Marimo]

I've glanced through this entire thread now and while I do understand that video game preservation is a substantial issue here I personally don't feel all that afflicted about the store closures. In 2021 I am - for the most part - done with the PS3. A couple of years ago I have started going through the list of games on this website, starting from the very first and slowly made my way up the list. I have watched at least a review or gameplay video for every game along the way and since I am currently looking at games that came out in early 2019 I can confidently say that there are no more PS3 games for me to play. Anything I was going to buy on PS3, I have bought it already. So from that standpoint there'll be little reason for me to mourn after the PS3 store when it'll finally be gone.

 

For the Vita it's not too bad either. Although I have 394 more games to check out from where I am now, that number includes trophy lists from all different regions as well as games that are crossplay/multiplatform with PS4. So the actual number of games I still have to look at is vastly lower than that. In the coming weeks I am going to focus entirely on Vita-exclusive digital only games and make sure not to miss out on anything I still want to play.

 

It is without a doubt a sad time for the Playstation ecosystem but as many have pointed out already, your average corporate mindset is not going to give much thought to the preservation of old, supposedly "outdated" videogames that are long beyond their lifecycles and won't make a quick buck anymore. It was fun while it lasted ?

Edited March 31, 2021 by Baka_Marimo

[Hwoarang_21]

8 hours ago, KingSkovald said:

 

I created alt Japanese account solely to buy Silent Hill 4 which is only available in JP store and is PSN-only (PS2 collection) and few Yakuza PS3/Vita games. I planned to make much more purchases there in the future but well...

Why people is focusing in buying games that have a format disc versión??? 

Silent Hill 4 is not PSN only game, neither all the Psone games. 

You can find them second hand. 

The ones that people need too prioritize is the ones that you cant find in other format just PSN Digital and DLCs of games that you already have. 

[Elvick_]

 

On 3/29/2021 at 2:38 PM, DeepEyes7 said:

 

Sorry I miss the other 2k comments threads about it ?. Yeah, I complained about it a lot too, since I had to bought retail versions of UMvC3 and MvC3, my point was that this has been happening since a lot of time ago so why people is so surprised about this now, we knew this will happen eventually. If I want to complain about anything is the real short notice.

People have the silliest takes ever. First nobody "batted an eye" about it, now it's "Okay but why would you keep complaining about a thing you don't like when it happens on a large scale erasing three platforms of digital games from existence?" 

Gee, I wonder. Maybe.. just maybe, it's because people don't like it? Which is why people have complained about digital/delisting for years... and why they continue to do so. Why do people struggle so hard when people act consistently? You're finding a way to complain that people who don't like delisting are still not liking it when it happens on a grand scale... as if that's somehow interesting.

You want to talk about people and being "so surprised" by the obvious, look in the damn mirror. 

6 minutes ago, Hwoarang_21 said:

Why people is focusing in buying games that have a format disc versión??? 

Silent Hill 4 is not PSN only game, neither all the Psone games. 

You can find them second hand. 

The ones that people need too prioritize is the ones that you cant find in other format just PSN Digital and DLCs of games that you already have. 

A few of the PSone games are expensive to buy used/physically now. And that's not even factoring in that some of those will end up looking like they were scraped along gravel and put in a wood chipper and sold as "fair" and "like new" condition. 

Edited March 31, 2021 by Elvick_

[RadiantFlamberge]

23 hours ago, AJ_Radio said:

Reminds me when Blizzard merged with Activision, and what has happened to them these past couple years.

Activision and Blizzard have both dragged each other downhill. Call of Duty now has always-online DRM in PC versions from MW2019 onward, and requires a battle.net account. And Diablo 4 will be always online even if you're playing SP even on a console. Also, Raven does support work for CoD and nothing else. No more originals from them like Singularity. Black Ops Cold War isn't bad, but that's because of Treyarch being the lead developer. Still, it's not quite as good as Black Ops 2.

 

Jim Ryan doesn't belong at Sony. I've put getting a PS5 on the back burner.

[KingSkovald]

36 minutes ago, Hwoarang_21 said:

Why people is focusing in buying games that have a format disc versión??? 

Silent Hill 4 is not PSN only game, neither all the Psone games. 

You can find them second hand. 

The ones that people need too prioritize is the ones that you cant find in other format just PSN Digital and DLCs of games that you already have. 

I simply want to play it on PS3 and it's PSN-only on PS3 and is better quality than PS2. If you think that PS2 version is a good replacement good luck with PS2 on 4K TV

[BrandedBerserk]

On 2021-03-30 at 8:19 AM, Nelson_Otaku said:

I supported this company so much while they just spit on my face.

No worries some people in denial are still there to say Sony is great and all lol...

even better now they have all that shovelware to help enhance their experience. Rip 2021

 

Because you have some sort of hatred towards the company does not mean that those who don't are in denial over anything. The closure may be a big deal to you but not to someone else which is perfectly fine, you can have your opinion without attempting to make those who don't share the same sentiment feel a certain way lmao.

 

On 2021-03-30 at 9:41 AM, BRKs_Eagle said:

(Will somebody distort what I said and try to paint me as a "fanboy" or something? Probably. Oh well.)

 

Anyone who even dares to speak in a rational manner and that doesn't resort to pitchforks is automatically a delusional fanboy who likes getting fucked by Sony. 

Edited March 31, 2021 by BrandedBerserk

[Guest]

I saw this, and thought I post it here just in case. I know I definitely have not "downloaded" everything crossbuy.

[EqualityEarth]

49 minutes ago, NERVergoproxy said:

I saw this, and thought I post it here just in case. I know I definitely have not "downloaded" everything crossbuy.

I don’t think this in particular is a huge deal. Most digital-only PS3/Vita crossbuys I’ve seen have shared trophy lists. Trophy lists didn’t start splitting/duplicating for crossbuys until the PS4/Vita ones.

[Dilust]

2 hours ago, NERVergoproxy said:

I saw this, and thought I post it here just in case. I know I definitely have not "downloaded" everything crossbuy.

This is another point that's not clear at all.

When I buy something crossbuy both versions are listed in the "Download list" even if I never actually downloaded them on my devices.

They say I would be able to download the contents from my Download list anytime.

And then they say I need to download the cross buy content on my devices, either PS3 or PS Vita.

Those last sentences have some logic fault.

 

I'd be gratefull with anybody can clear the matter.

 

[mekktor]

21 minutes ago, Dilust said:

This is another point that's not clear at all.

When I buy something crossbuy both versions are listed in the "Download list" even if I never actually downloaded them on my devices.

They say I would be able to download the contents from my Download list anytime.

And then they say I need to download the cross buy content on my devices, either PS3 or PS Vita.

Those last sentences have some logic fault.

 

I'd be gratefull with anybody can clear the matter.

 

 

Pretty sure when they say to "download" the other version, they just mean you need to make sure it's added to your download list. This is the kind of language they've always used for this kind of thing, like telling you to download PS+ games before a certain date.

 

So just watch out for cross-buy games that don't actually add both versions to your download list but instead make the second version free on the store. Because after the stores close, there will be no way to "purchase" the free version to add it to your download list.