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Playstation Store on PS3 / PSP closes down on July 2nd, PSV on August 27th (Download lists still available after closure)
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So no one is entering the hobby anymore? No one is discovering games or series they'd overlooked before? A lot of physical games are expensive and climbing up to hundreds of dollars, many of which have cheap digital versions that were accessible legally on PSN.
That is still a false equivalency.
But it's again two different things, There are plenty of storefronts that have disappeared and luckily those titles are mostly preserved and playable but there is a huge difference between PC and consoles. Do I agree with them shutting down the vita/psp and ps3 stores? No. Do I understand it? Yes absolutely and I wish they would keep the storefronts up permanently.
Yeah this is true. Things did seem a lot more consumer orientended but this what's happening seems rather agressive. I don't like it at all.
I'm so tired too of people making excuses for these huge companies like "oh but preservation of games is not as easy, and well it's not like it doesn't happen to other industries yadda yadda"
I remember when they started charging PS+ to play online, and the excuse was "you gotta cover the costs of the server" etc. But at this point, why the fuck are we paying for services that have barely evolved and a network that gets hacked about once a year. We're talking about a company worth BILLIONS but so far we're thinking like they're some scrappy devs.
There is no excuse for this, unless your only view and value on games is basically through profit, which honestly fuck off
I remember when they started charging PS+ to play online, and the excuse was "you gotta cover the costs of the server" etc. But at this point, why the fuck are we paying for services that have barely evolved and a network that gets hacked about once a year. We're talking about a company worth BILLIONS but so far we're thinking like they're some scrappy devs.
There is no excuse for this, unless your only view and value on games is basically through profit, which honestly fuck off
Got a source for this? I remember them announcing they were ending working on any more titles and it sure didn't seem like it was just a break to shift their focus to other things for the time being. I would love to be wrong on this.
Well we all know this is never happening for a variety of reasons from proprietary technology and code, to being able to utilize it down the road, and in many cases for older games the source just no longer exists because developers didn't properly backup and maintain older source code and art assets. Not to mention how many developers no longer exist and that has been lost as well.
Huh? I agree the license games I get, but Halo 3 and Halo Reach not being available is pretty surprising. I wonder what else is missing...
The stop was temporary; at least one employee publicly confirmed that they'll be resuming that effort sometime this year. Sorry that I don't have a link.
Do what I did. Search on eBay for SD2VITA, grab a 128GB microSD card, then once you have both, go here: https://vita.hacks.guide
Don't be afraid. You'll be done in an hour, and everything will work just as it was, except that you won't be relying on an overly-expensive and notoriously unreliable storage device anymore. And there are no reports of anyone being banned for doing this. Just don't pirate games, and don't try to cheat Trophies.
My Vita has been hacked for literally years now. I don't do anything different on it from before; I buy and play single-player games. And everything just works. I use a name-brand, reliable microSD card, so I don't feel like my Vita is a ticking time bomb. The 64GB official cards, on the other hand, are known for eventually failing, and are not worth it. Once you do this, you'll be glad you did.
Here are the Vita (and PSP, and PS1) games that can only be purchased via a PS3: https://tweetvitareview.wordpress.c...hat-you-cant-access-on-the-vita-store-na-psn/
The Steam comparison doesn't really make any sense, though. There's no Steam 2 and Steam 3 that are architecturally incompatible with Steam 1.
If your PC today wasn't able to natively run Steam 1 games anymore and the numbers of people who still accessed the old Steam store with old, compatible hardware were negligible, then I'd be willing to bet that Valve would close that store at some point as well.
If the PS3 was an evolving platform where upgraded hardware versions are compatible with every game from 15 years ago until today Sony would still sell games to that platform as well.
PC and console are different and are treated and handled differently.
And this is a consequence of design decisions made by the hardware provider; it's not something written in stone, and solutions exist for the barriers which make it challenging.
Downgrade to 3.65 instead of 3.60 and Sony will never know your Vita is running a CFW unless you hack trophies or do something else stupid.
Or create a new a "dummy" account that can't be linked to you in any way and keep your Vita offline.
Pretty much anything with sportspeople or cars is gone. Even games without real cars like Burnout Paradise. All the games that orient around licenced music seem to be gone. All of the Halo games seem to be gone. Aside from that, just picking from the first five pages... Doesn't look like you can buy Ace Combat, World of Tanks, Medal of Honor, Lost Planet, Army of Two, Lord of the Rings Conquest or Mortal Kombat.
Anything can happen, but going by the track record of Microsoft it probably won't happen anytime soon or ever. We'll find out eventually, but in the meantime I got two questions for you...
- Why does it matter what Microsoft does? It's shitty when Sony does it, it's shitty when Nintendo does and it would be shitty if Microsoft does it.
- Why are you looking at speculative scenarios to defend this?
I think the idea is that they shouldn't be and their differences aren't due to limitations of hardware or software.
I installed my launch PS4 500 gig internal HD in my PS3 when the PS4 launched. I'm gonna check the store to see if there's anything I missed out on.
Is keeping these games up as simple as having a server with the games on an HDD? I don't know about the PS3 library, but I feel like you could store all the Vita and PSP games on a couple of TBs, are they really saving that much by taking those servers down?
Yes I fully agree but they were and that is why issues like this still exists. Ideally going forward this problem won't exist and things like this won't happen in the way it seems to be especially when it seems like consoles manuafactors are keeping similar architecture from generation to generation.
Yes, those servers have to be maintained and have operating costs. It's not as simple as throw some content on a HDD and call it a day.
Most of those have been delisted. Halo 3 and Reach were delisted just last December when 343 announced the end of support at the end of this year. All of the others were delisted due to expired licenses, except possibly for Battlefield 4...I don't see any mention of that being delisted.
I don't see it as a problem now; if they're still allowing people to download purchased content, then they have the mechanisms in place to continue to allow people to purchase content.
There's no reason why at the very least, they couldn't let people continue to use their phone or computer to access the store to purchase content. Because as it is now, the only people downloading games they didn't own from Sony will be pirates because I doubt the backdoor into their CDN is going to be closed in August. The people that still use these devices shouldn't have to turn into pirates to buy and play games they might've missed.
Yeah... I'd never really looked before. I'd always assumed it was just the sports stuff but there's so many other cases which are less obvious. Ace Combat, Mortal Kombat, Lost Planet, Burnout Paradise, etc. Goes to show really that you can't assume anything. If you want to be able to play something in future, make sure you've bought it and ideally that you have it installed or on a disc.
Nothing to worry about. Hack it with SD2Vita and you'll be golden. I haven't heard of anyone getting banned for this stuff.
I'm so disappointed that this rumour ended up being true.
...and also not that surprised, I'm still bitter about them shutting down the servers to Gravity Rush 2.
My Vita is already modded so I can use SD cards, I'll need to log back in and just redownload literally everything. I have picked up most highlights over the years on sale, but some stuff never appeared on the EU store (like Jeanne d'Arc).
My PS3 is in storage somewhere, I certainly hope I got everything I need on it already, that download list is a pain in the ass to use.
...and also not that surprised, I'm still bitter about them shutting down the servers to Gravity Rush 2.
My Vita is already modded so I can use SD cards, I'll need to log back in and just redownload literally everything. I have picked up most highlights over the years on sale, but some stuff never appeared on the EU store (like Jeanne d'Arc).
My PS3 is in storage somewhere, I certainly hope I got everything I need on it already, that download list is a pain in the ass to use.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not necessarily defending Sony here. I think this sucks. I'm just saying that MS may also sunset the Xbox 360 Marketplace in the future, and that we need to be mindful of that.
MS' track record is not all roses, by the way. OG Xbox Live is long gone, and all of that DLC is gone too,* aside from what's been brought forward via BC. And all 3000+ Xbox Live Indie Games have been gone since last 2017, though they're still redownloadable. That being said, I don't think Xbox Live for 360 is in any danger whatsoever of being shut down anytime soon.
* it is still available via unscrupulous means, lol
The end of an Era :/
If after the servers shut down, then modding a vita should be less of a worry right?
If after the servers shut down, then modding a vita should be less of a worry right?
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. The E3 demo of God of War III melting eyes. I watched a Pomeranian bork in the dark near the Tokyo Jungle. All those games will be lost in time, like digital-only games on PS3. Time to die.
Well, yes, of course. This thread likely wouldn't exist otherwise. But your response to someone saying this sort of thing hasn't happened on Steam was to liken it to select titles being made unavailable with "it's an issue with every single gaming company" and "this isn't just a Sony issue". Surely you can see how that's a false equivalence, as he wasn't asserting games aren't delisted on Steam but rather making the point that Valve has never imposed an arbitrary technological cut-off.
Glad I bought an sd2vita to cache all my games. Thank goodness most of my PSP and PS3 collection are physical.
I get what you mean, but GoW3 has a beautiful PS4 remaster just saying.
The series started at God of War 3. God of War 1&2? Never heard of it.
Just like Dmc2
idk how the poster you quoted feels, but i think the only answer in this situation is that they're good as hell.
Indeed it has, but that E3 demo (which I still have on my old, phat PS Tripla) blew gaskets and melted eyes when it was first put up for download.
My gut tells me they will. For one thing Microsoft is punching uphill at the moment. They can ill-afford something as bad as shutting off entire libraries of legacy content when they've spent the last 6-7 years rebuilding their brand. It seems whatever they can feasibly bring forward from prior gens, they will. Sony very much operates from a position of being on top. Even now, they're going to get a swell of people putting money into the coffers buying up shit before it goes offline. They'll endure the little PR black eye they're taking at the moment while counting all the cash rolling in. And you can't keep PS5 on the shelf, so this sadly will pass.
Is there an URL that I can use on PC to go PS3 storefront atm? My PS3 is not connected to, well, anything atm.
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.
I don't get why ppl keep quoting this when he was referring to PS5 and not to old gen consoles... he ended lying on that too (see PS5 cross-gen games) but it really has nothing to do with PS3.
Saying that... I was expecting this but not this soon, I wish I bought the stuff I was interested in while they were discounted, I'm a fool :'(
Hell, I'm still finding new NES games I never knew about. Some through the Nintendo Switch. Just because something is old doesn't mean no one wants to play it. Also I can't afford every game I'm interested in so I can't buy every thing at release.
Is it safe to directly download games of the PSN on a modded Vita?
I really don't want to risk any of my accounts.