Well it sounds like you still will be able to buy those on the website? And my guess on the PS5 too.
It is just "Themes, Apps and Avatars" you cant buy on the website any longer for PS4.
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Well it sounds like you still will be able to buy those on the website? And my guess on the PS5 too.
It is just "Themes, Apps and Avatars" you cant buy on the website any longer for PS4.
I assume wishlisting, themes and other stuff for the PS4 are simply going to be overhauled for the new system.
It doesn't really matter how compatible my pc is if the games I have don't exist on it. I really really hate how Sony doesn't value their legacy content.
Assumedly part of the separation here to likely upgrade the store is that the wishlist is tied to the old store. So they will still have a wishlist going forward, you just have to rebuild your own from the looks of it. Sucks if you have an extensive wishlist, but I just went and looked at mine and realized I had actually bought most of the games on there in a recent sale and didn't care about the rest.
You will still be able to do that through the store? This is for PS3/Vita and for PS4 themes, not games.
Other than cost buy stuff there hasn't been any PS3 or Vita sale for a long time.
That's hella whack but now makes a LOT more sense as to why they've been trying to pretend those platforms don't exist the last year during sales.
If they were doing this the right way we'd get one final MEGA PS3/Vita sale. But we all know that won't happen. So those games will just sit there giving them reason to turn off the Vita/PS3 stores because "no one was buying games there for full-price".
Really hope I'm wrong. As I still buy PS3/Vita content through the web store as it's a much better store interface than the consoles.
If they were doing this the right way we'd get one final MEGA PS3/Vita sale. But we all know that won't happen. So those games will just sit there giving them reason to turn off the Vita/PS3 stores because "no one was buying games there for full-price".
Really hope I'm wrong. As I still buy PS3/Vita content through the web store as it's a much better store interface than the consoles.
Because PS3 store is so bad it might as well not even exist.
That's absolutely correct.
Gravity Rush narrowly escaped this, but what about other great first party games like Puppeteer, Soul Sacrifice, Freedom Wars, or Oreshika? Or third party games relegated to the console like Drakengard 3 or Metal Gear Solid 4?
What happens to them when the storefronts for the PS3 and PS Vita inevitably close down?
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For the number of people this will realistically affect, I'll take the improvements to user experience.
Are you going to participate in the discussion asking why you believe this is true and what is your source?
I'm going to assume everything you've bought you'll be able to redownload or Sony will get dragged over the coals.
And if you can, then this isn't really a big deal at all. At this point you'd have bought whatever you're interested in on those old ass systems.
God Sony sucks so fucking much.
The PS3 store is absolute asscheeks to use these days. Ever since they updated it to resemble the PS4 store it's been a sluggish and near unusable mess. And that isn't even getting into how I have to sift through a download list filled with 10 years worth of shit if I want to find a specific item that may have been delisted at some point.
Also, it still blows my fucking mind that they haven't attempted to unify avatars across their systems. I've got a bunch that I can only use if I log in from my PS3 and change it there, so it looks like it'll be the same shit for PS4 avatars going into PS5.
I wonder if this will have any impact on the PSDLE Chrome extension.
The PS3 store is absolute asscheeks to use these days. Ever since they updated it to resemble the PS4 store it's been a sluggish and near unusable mess. And that isn't even getting into how I have to sift through a download list filled with 10 years worth of shit if I want to find a specific item that may have been delisted at some point.
Also, it still blows my fucking mind that they haven't attempted to unify avatars across their systems. I've got a bunch that I can only use if I log in from my PS3 and change it there, so it looks like it'll be the same shit for PS4 avatars going into PS5.
I wonder if this will have any impact on the PSDLE Chrome extension.
Well those people are already using a console that's discontinued, so...
There's PS3 stuff on sale all the time. Tales of Zestiria is on sale right now:
Tales of Zestiria - Digital Standard Edition
As a bonus for purchasing the digital edition of Tales of Zestiria, receive two extra items br- Mystic Artes for Alisha, Mikleo and Lailahbr- Exclusive Tales of Zestiria ThemebrbrIn a world torn by war and political skirmishes, accept the burden of the Shepherd and fight human darkness to...
store.playstation.com
I guess that means that PS4 Themes won't be transferable to the PS5
I guess it was obvious but I have a lot of PS4 themes 😔
I guess it was obvious but I have a lot of PS4 themes 😔
I'll never understand this sentiment. There's plenty of shit that I missed out on from as recent as last generation that I'm still picking up today.
It's nice to want things. I can't see that happening tbh.
Edit: Unless you mean redownload on your PS3/PSP/Vita.
Same literally finished El Shaddai on PS3 less than 10 minutes ago, and just started Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (before I play Assault on Dark Athena) on PS3. Still buying games for PSP, PS2 and PS3.
Guessed something like this was happening from the store pages for PS5 games (eg here, but the link for the PS4 versions takes you back to the old store).
The new store will probably be a unified global storefront which will mean they can finally support things like gifting. Gifting was too problematic to implement with the current region-specific stores.
The new store will probably be a unified global storefront which will mean they can finally support things like gifting. Gifting was too problematic to implement with the current region-specific stores.
No, I'm not going to reveal my sources for obvious reasons. You'll only have to wait a few weeks to find out for certain anyway.
They could do both. New store and keep the content listed. I can somewhat understand PS3 and Vita being removed. But PS4 avatars, themes, ... and your wishlist deleted. That's nonsense.
There a still a few Vita games I want to buy, but after this I don't expect them to go on sale ever again.
I haven't bought anything on the PS3 in probably 7 years. Whenever they changed the store the 1st time (probably back in 2009?) it was practically a shitshow.
People need to accept that PS3 BC is never happening. The only sliver of hope would have been if it was used through an emulator on PS5. It's not. It's dead, it'll never happen unfortunately.
It doesn't seem to be a press release but sent to PlayStation partners? I'm still holding out on a secondary credible source even though this seems very believable regardless.
They barely ever go on sale already.
Sony's probably too busy to allow developers to put their games on sale or something.
Oh yeah you're right! I can't see any trace of sales since January. Maybe that's it then! Not sure House of the Dead is worth £20 :(
To me if you are committing to serving up old game content and making it available to re-download then you have already committed to 80-90% of the effort needed to keep offering those games for sale. So to do the former and take away the later just seems stupid.
"Who cares, i only play new games and everything before 2018 is trash anyway!"
Yeah, on Steam you can still download and play games removed from the store for whatever reason. Games being delisted for licensing reasons (Forza for example) can also be downloaded again as long as you bought them.
If they take away the games AND the ability to download them forever on the systems you bought the games on, then this does suck though and i'm sure it will blow up.
What happens when they shut down the actual Vita store? Becuase that did happen for PSP. I would like to think I already own every Vita game I'd want at this point, but you never know. This sucks. You suck Sony.
PSDLE works off the data the current web store uses so if store no longer exists then it will no longer work.
It's possible this may drive someone to reverse engineer the process for starting a remote download though.