Tuesday, March 23rd 2021
Sony Waves Goodbye to PlayStation 3 As the Console Drops PlayStation Store Support
According to the latest information coming from The Gamer, Sony is in the process of permanently closing the PlayStation Store support for its older consoles. That includes the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation Portable. According to the source, "PSP's and PS3's [PSN] stores are to be closed on July 2, while the PS Vita store will stay open until August 27. After those dates, you will no longer be able to purchase digital copies of games or DLC for any of the Sony consoles mentioned above". This is marking an end of an era, as those are the consoles that sold in millions and are very well known in the gaming community.
The official announcement is expected to follow after this, however, we still don't know when Sony will address this officially. It shows that the company is now focusing on more modern consoles and that the 9-year-old PS Vita, 13-year-old PS3, and 16-year-old PSP are considered legacy now. The remaining consoles are the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, and the latest PlayStation 5, which are all going to be supported by the PlayStation Store for a while.
Source:
The Gamer
The official announcement is expected to follow after this, however, we still don't know when Sony will address this officially. It shows that the company is now focusing on more modern consoles and that the 9-year-old PS Vita, 13-year-old PS3, and 16-year-old PSP are considered legacy now. The remaining consoles are the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, and the latest PlayStation 5, which are all going to be supported by the PlayStation Store for a while.
30 Comments on Sony Waves Goodbye to PlayStation 3 As the Console Drops PlayStation Store Support
They've just released their first ever digital only console - closing the PS3 store will make people think twice about buying into their new hardware and digital only future. What's the point when somewhere down the line you're left with a brick?
There are many people who still play the PS3, and the store would be used plenty more if Sony allowed discounts on the products. For the past year or two now there's been no price drops and if you want content that's years old you have to pay full price.
Even if this turns out to be bogus, it should make people think twice about buying into the Sony ecosystem, and I say that as a Playstation owner myself. Those incredible exclusives are tempting, but in the grand scheme of things they're out of touch, and Jim Ryan sounds like a bit of a pillock too.
There's only a few games that really pushed the console to it's edge. Because of that, the next generation(s) where simply a more universal approach lika X86/X64, so that devs could focus on just one platform instead of 3 to 4 back then.
And like some one else said most can be found on GOG these days ?.
But is analogue to games being out of production. And frankly, given how easy is pirating the PS3 nowadays, there is so much drama for the sake of it, welcome to retrogaming guys. Still, they will should provide proper tools for archiving this games in external hdds, confirming they won't have any failure over any network component missing or something like that.