PS3, Vita, And PSP Stores To Be Permanently Closed In A Few Months - fuck game preservation lol - Sony

The Doom Slayer said:
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It's still going to happen, they're just boiling the frog slowly this time instead of doing it all at once. Recommend getting all the shit you want before they flip the switch for good.
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It effects nothing because you shouldn't be having your credit card on any of the these services in the first place. What this does mean however is that this removes 90% of the maintenance cost for long term upkeep. So it would extend the shelf life of the digital storefront. Nintendo did something similar to the 3ds and ended credit card purchases, so this isn't some unthinkable brave new era, but it's part of the lifecycle of digital storefronts.

And if your nanny state requires you to have a credit card to doublecheck to see if you're a big boy well then you should shoot yourself for living in a place like that.
Or not because they probably won't allow you to have a gun either
 
Marissa Moira said:
It effects nothing because you shouldn't be having your credit card on any of the these services in the first place. What this does mean however is that this removes 90% of the maintenance cost for long term upkeep. So it would extend the shelf life of the digital storefront. Nintendo did something similar to the 3ds and ended credit card purchases, so this isn't some unthinkable brave new era, but it's part of the lifecycle of digital storefronts.

And if your nanny state requires you to have a credit card to doublecheck to see if you're a big boy well then you should shoot yourself for living in a place like that.
Or not because they probably won't allow you to have a gun either
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It's Sony being cheap, incompetent fucks and winding down these old platforms because they want them gone, and want to herd everyone to PS4 or more preferably PS5. It's going to happen, and it'll probably be relatively soon.

Again, this wouldn't be a problem if Sony would pull their heads out of their asses and come up with some sort of legacy backwards compatibility solution for their games, but I guess their employees are too busy jerking off to Abby porn to care.
 
The Doom Slayer said:
It's Sony being cheap, incompetent fucks and winding down these old platforms because they want them gone, and want to herd everyone to PS4 or more preferably PS5. It's going to happen, and it'll probably be relatively soon.

Again, this wouldn't be a problem if Sony would pull their heads out of their asses and come up with some sort of legacy backwards compatibility solution for their games, but I guess their employees are too busy jerking off to Abby porn to care.
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They have patents for different aspects of backwards compatibility, but really the only one at any real risk is PS3 because everything relating to that is in it's patent phase outside what few games they have for streaming.

The credit card shit isn't actually that big of a deal because that removes the #1 threat to the PS3 and Vita store ever needing to be brought down for real big legal reasons. So if they're ever going to toy with pulling it offline it's going to be a marketing stunt for something else. The PS3 and Vita can't be updated to meet modern security standards, so buying shit through PSN cards is probably for the best if you want the store up in the long term. And there's also the fact that you're going to need for them to be connected to a landline in some fashion because already some forms of modern routers can't mesh with them.

The thing is, both PS3 and Vita are unable to show PS5 format trophies on their systems, however the PS5 is able to show trophies from PS3 and Vita which does suggest there's some level of backwards compatible data that exists already.
 
Marissa Moira said:
They have patents for different aspects of backwards compatibility, but really the only one at any real risk is PS3 because everything relating to that is in it's patent phase outside what few games they have for streaming.

The credit card shit isn't actually that big of a deal because that removes the #1 threat to the PS3 and Vita store ever needing to be brought down for real big legal reasons. So if they're ever going to toy with pulling it offline it's going to be a marketing stunt for something else. The PS3 and Vita can't be updated to meet modern security standards, so buying shit through PSN cards is probably for the best if you want the store up in the long term. And there's also the fact that you're going to need for them to be connected to a landline in some fashion because already some forms of modern routers can't mesh with them.

The thing is, both PS3 and Vita are unable to show PS5 format trophies on their systems, however the PS5 is able to show trophies from PS3 and Vita which does suggest there's some level of backwards compatible data that exists already.
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Well, I'll believe the BC when I see it because there's been tons of rumors over the years but none have ever come true.

I'd certainly like it to happen, but I just don't have much faith at this point.
 
The Doom Slayer said:
Well, I'll believe the BC when I see it because there's been tons of rumors over the years but none have ever come true.

I'd certainly like it to happen, but I just don't have much faith at this point.
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They've been pretty good with the PS4 to PS5 transition and actually giving people both versions of the games.

The problem I see is that most of the PS3's library is really mostly unknown titles without a wide audience. Like Demon's Souls got a full remake, as did Nier, Uncharted, TLOU, Journey, those were the things that gave the system notoriety and garnered fanbases. They have all the heavy hitters from that era able to be played in some modern form already.

But stuff like Afrika and Folklore, that's going to be a hard sell, not only that but you have many region specific titles that just never did well back when they were current and they never got a western release.

Afrika could probably benefit from modern controls, because the driving aspects are clunky as all hell. But it's also not a particularly exciting game, the night missions are all on a track and the exploration areas are very limited when compared to modern open world games. It has brand names out the wazoo, with Suzuki and NatGeo being very prominent and all the cameras were sony brands. So if you were to remake it to modern standards it would require a bit more effort.
 
Marissa Moira said:
The problem I see is that most of the PS3's library is really mostly unknown titles without a wide audience. Like Demon's Souls got a full remake, as did Nier, Uncharted, TLOU, Journey, those were the things that gave the system notoriety and garnered fanbases. They have all the heavy hitters from that era able to be played in some modern form already.
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Game that sold 500,00 copies worldwide is a heavy hitter of its era. Please put down the crack pipe.
 
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