for the foreseeable future
Meaning someday you won’t even be able to access games you’ve bought. Got it. They‘re on a roll when it comes to very short sighted decisions. What a monumental dumpster fire Sony has become.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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The ability to download and keep the installer is why I've put more into GOG than any console. You want to shut down the cloud host for everything I bought fine, but send a disk that I can replicate for backups in the mail before you do.
Well, promising something "forever" can become a huge liability. You never know how the world and tech may change. I think forseeable future is good enough in this case, but it's possible I have been brainwashed to expect less from such corporations.
That being said, what they could do, was move all PS3/Vita games to their newer PS4/PS5 store, turn off the older store and only keep the bits required for signin and any validity check. And make a new store app for PS3 and Vita, with up-to-date security. This should make keeping everything patched up much simpler, and won't need them to close the store.
This of course makes huge assumptions about how their system is. And while it can be done regardless, the resources required for the change can be huge, but I think this would have earned them lots of goodwill, even from people who don't have PS3/ Vita. Specially when they are going all digital. A kind of sign that at least we would be able to buy and play these games for as long as we want.
They should just let people archive their purchased software onto physical media and install them on any other PS3 they use. Not like it'd be costing them sales or anything, since they're removing the ability to give them money.
announcing this the same day as the phasing out of physical discs is… a choice lol
Like ripping off a band aid.
It will hurt for a while and be old news by the end of July.
Also killing 500 movies.
I swear Sony is just trying to see how many rounds they can shoot into their foot and still hobble to the bank. They are gonna blow one too many toes off...
Its funny, I canceled my psplus subscription that I've had for many years, just a few hours ago because I won't be able to afford it for a couple months.
Now I will not be renewing it. Ever.
I cancelled my PS+ that I've had since the PS3 last month, I'm done with consoles
SD2Vita coupled with nopaystation = fuck you Sony.
This might not be as big a news article as people claim, though I see how it can feel that way amid the disc closure announcement.
If they do it like some systems, you might be able to open a web browser to make the purchase, and then download it on the system. When it’s happened before (I forget which system), the main reason was simply that the device didn’t support newer HTTPS connections for payment info.