-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Were they just not going to tell users until it happened? Wtf? That message is clearly not for average people, they can't even give us a month or put things on sale so those who want to grab some of the library can do so.
The ps3 store is unusable, the psp store is already shutdown, and the vita store isn't updated. All while nothing ever goes on sale anymore.
The ps3 store is unusable, the psp store is already shutdown, and the vita store isn't updated. All while nothing ever goes on sale anymore.
We don't know. From this news, it doesn't sound like it, but we have no idea if a full shutdown is coming and what that means to downloads.
Have you seen this personally yourself where it says it'll launch on the 19th? The document floating around from that French website has a bunch of formatting errors and sources someone who is "anonymous" so I'm still a tiny bit sceptical. Although Sony removing features wouldn't shock me so I can see this being legit.
Probably not full shutdown just removal from mobile and web presence. These services are most likely being removed from the main PSN to cornered off as legacy data / code.
I would assume so, the PS2 classics for PS3 I would imagine also.
The PSP's store has been shut down for a while, but you can still download from your download list.
This does fit in with a theory I've had for a little while that you are going to see a PS1-3 backwards compatibility solution this generation, but it's going to be closer to what Nintendo is doing than what Microsoft is doing.
I thought if anything they would do this the other way around: shut down the stores on the consoles and keep the webstore available for purchases for those platforms. This is crap.
On the other hand, I don't think I recall the last time I saw a sale with any PS3/Vita/PSP game that wasn't just because the PS4 game on sale happened to be crossbuy.
Uuuuugh, finding shit on my download list on the PS3 is going to be terrible.
On the other hand, I don't think I recall the last time I saw a sale with any PS3/Vita/PSP game that wasn't just because the PS4 game on sale happened to be crossbuy.
Uuuuugh, finding shit on my download list on the PS3 is going to be terrible.
They are removing the wishlist?? It's one of the best parts of their online store. It's very handy to dump a bunch of stuff in there and then just browse during sales to see what's been discounted.
Arrogant Sony 2.0 is not messing around.
Arrogant Sony 2.0 is not messing around.
It would, since those aren't accessible on the PS4 in any way.
How I feel. I was already in the boat of voting to get rid of them or just putting them in a legacy folder somewhere in the store.
Seriously debating selling my OLED Vita and my PS3 Slim. I havent used them in awhile, but they are just ticking time bombs at this point. If the harddrives or 64GB storage card dies on them, they are useless outside of possible homebrew.
Why? I mean, yeah, there's a ton of clutter in the store with this kind of stuff but to prevent people from buying them on the web store entirely is just stupid.
Yeah ditching wishlists seems dumb especially considering they'll be on the PS5 store itself.
You would expect them to be adding features not removing them.
I understand removing ps3 and vita games from the webstore so it's not holding future next gen back (although I don't like it or what it continues to say about Sony's attitude towards its old games).
But why remove the wishlist? Are they replacing it with a new improved wishlist?
But why remove the wishlist? Are they replacing it with a new improved wishlist?
Disable "Prevent Cross-Site Tracking" in Safari settings.
unsurprising but still upsetting. games exist exactly as long as platform holders and publishers allow them to.
Why that's utter nonsense to remove PS4 apps, themes, avatars and the wishlist. Is this some kind of bad "we believe in next gen" joke?
With regards to the wishlist, and this is my own personal speculation to be clear here, I get the impression they've overhauling how all that works on PS5. I imagine they're doing it properly this time, you're just going to have to start over.
It's still on console it looks like. It sounds like they are changing their whole web store
This is not a good change. Sony is a billion dollar company. I can't believe they are incapable of setting up a store where you can search for games by platform.
So...people would have to buy another console, one that's discontinued, to purchase digital games...for a different console?
Just awful.
Yeah, the formatting errors and image resolution makes it scream fake to me. And why are the dates hyperlink? Makes no sense.
Totally sounds like something Sony could do though.
Would also be possible through a PS3, provided you have one, and can complete the purchase before the store crashes.
And then turn off 2FA so you can actually transfer the game from the PS3 to the PSP.
Even a new and improved wishlist wouldn't make it necessary as a developer to remove the content on the list. It's nonsense by Sony. I might not be a game developer, but I am a web and software dev.
The stark contrast between how Microsoft and Sony handle their legacy catalog is only getting more apparent.
PC still stands at the top when it comes to compatibility of course, but Microsoft is at least investing legitimate time and money into ensuring an ecosystem with Xbox that the PlayStation team just doesn't seem interested in.
PC still stands at the top when it comes to compatibility of course, but Microsoft is at least investing legitimate time and money into ensuring an ecosystem with Xbox that the PlayStation team just doesn't seem interested in.
Because it's a complete mess having themes for PS3, PS4, and presumably even PS5 all on the same webstore. You have to put disclaimers on everything and people don't bother to read. Makes more sense to have those items available on the storefronts directly for the console they're designed for. They don't need to be on the webstore.
Same with apps. What value is added having multiple versions of a free Netflix app all on the same webstore, when you could just download it directly to your chosen console?
