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After rumors began brewing that Sony might finally put an end to PlayStation Store access on some of its older systems, the company has finally confirmed what some fans feared. Starting later this year, support for the PlayStation Store on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation Portable will be ending. As of today, they’ve also shut down the old web store that allowed customers to purchase games for those platforms on their computer. This decision comes as a result of Sony wanting to unify and focus on their more modern and current systems: the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The PSP and PS3’s store access will be the first to go, on July 2, 2021, with the Vita to follow shortly after on August 27th. Players will still be able to download their already purchased games even after those dates, but once July and August rolls around, any digital games for those platforms will become unavailable to buy.

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Well, we will just have to use emulators then. Hopefully someone figures out how to use internet on the emulator and play online as well.
 
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Welp, time to download and back up as many titles as one can before the PS Store for these systems bites the dust.
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You’ll still be able to redownload purchases, for now at least. You just wont be able to make the initial purchase.
 
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This is why I was mostly against digital gaming from the beginning. If you have the disc you can always play the game but if you need to redownload a digital game for some reason it's not necessarily permanent.

Sure you can maybe still access it on a new console but what if I don't have the desire to buy that console? I have a gaming PC and would only want a PS5 for exclusives, and they seem to be more open minded about putting their exclusives on PC. So I won't be buying a PS5 anytime soon. Maybe never if games like God of War come to PC, I doubt that will happen but you never know. Backwards compatibility is a good thing but I should never be required to buy a new console to play my old game from the previous console.

Also all 3 of these stores none of their game libraries are compatible with either PS4 or PS5, so pretty much screwed.
 
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JustJay said:
This is why I was mostly against digital gaming from the beginning. If you have the disc you can always play the game but if you need to redownload a digital game for some reason it's not necessarily permanent.

Sure you can maybe still access it on a new console but what if I don't have the desire to buy that console? I have a gaming PC and would only want a PS5 for exclusives, and they seem to be more open minded about putting their exclusives on PC. So I won't be buying a PS5 anytime soon. Maybe never if games like God of War come to PC, I doubt that will happen but you never know.
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This is very problematic for games that have DLCs.
 
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Good thing all 3 of those platforms were hacked to pieces, and it's pretty easy to find pretty much every digital game online.
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I think it's admirable to be against pirating new games, but just plain stupid to be against pirating old games that you have little or no chance of playing anywhere else.
 
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Chary said:
I'll be honest--both my Vita and PS3 have been yarr'd for quite a long time...so it doesn't bother me. It's always sad to see games go, especially at that magnitude, but I'd feel safe in saying that after so many years, they've been mostly backed up
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I'll trade you your vita for a wii
 
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And exactly as I expected when this was just a rumor, you can still download your purchases just fine, so all the idiots doomsaying and telling you to "QUICK DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR GAMES BEFORE THEY'RE GONE FOR GOOD!!!!" just wasted a whole lot of time and bandwidth for no reason.

So long as they allow you to continue downloading your purchases, I don't really care if they close the digital store personally. I've already played whatever PS3/PSP/Vita games I've wanted to play, so it's no great loss to me.
 
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