Phones Laptops Headphones Cameras. Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. YouTube Instagram Adobe. Kickstarter Tumblr Art Club. When the decision to close down the PlayStation Store on PS3 and Vita emerged, this statement made it clear that Sony was not concerned with preserving older titles.
Bailey notes that Microsoft has handled this issue much better in recent years. Supporting legacy games and storefronts generates lots of marketing goodwill, and can quickly turn into a PR disaster when ignored. If Sony or other digital retailers decide to close down their shops, thousands of games vanish, and with DRM measures like PS3's CMOS battery-dependent license checks, even the digital games users have already secured could be rendered useless.
The cloud-based PS Now is potential solutions to purchased games being locked on dead hardware, but it's still just charging users for access to games instead of giving them actual ownership over full copies. PlayStation's halting of the PS3 and PS Vita store closures has likely won back the favor of nostalgic gamers and may set a precedent for other digital distributors to not abandon the many players who rely on their services.
Source: PlayStation Blog. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. The PlayStation Store for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita will not shut down, Sony announced on Monday, reversing a decision that left many players wondering what would happen to their digital content on the legacy platforms.
However, the storefront for the PlayStation Portable which dates to will be closed down, on July 2, , as originally planned. Already PSP owners had very limited access to the storefront on a platform that has not been supported since
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