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Somehow I knew half this thread would be Marissa Moira damage controlling.
PS3, Vita, And PSP Stores To Be Permanently Closed In A Few Months - fuck game preservation lol - Sony
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And you'd be wrong, I'm hoping retards finally stop wanting digital games.
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Doesn't nopaystation download from the ps3 store or something like that?
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It does, but Sony is only retiring PS3, PSP, and Vita purchases right now. Redownloads are safe and you can even buy cross-buy PS4 games and get their Vita/PS3 versions. I assume that the CDNs will still work as long as redownloads work, but who knows for how long.
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From what I understand, original Xbox live only had a few things on it, and was such a hack job they couldn't keep it compatible with the 360 version, so axed it. There was a bunch of people who kept a Halo 2 match running for days, but it eventually ended.
I keep seeing this mentioned so I decided to look it up.
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That's insane that was going for 10 bucks as of the other week it was discounted down to 2 dollars at gamestop as of this year. Now look up the NTSC version of Afrika which never had a digital copy ever if you want real sticker shock.
This kind of reminds of the Original Death of Superman (not the first time he actually died but the first time DC tried to bank on his death). People who never read the comics in decades lost their shit in a similar fashion because part of their childhood was supposedly being ripped away.
Then again we live in an age where people will pay 60 bucks for Skyward sword, so I don't think PS3's legacy is going to be over. They already tested the waters with DES as a full on remake.
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Everything has it's pros and cons, at least with digital games you don't have to sometimes pay almost a thousand dollars for a physical copy after 10/15 years.
A network being shut down, a game being so expensive you'd have to be rich to be able to afford it, what's really the difference? Inaccessible to most is inaccessible to most.
What people need to do is keep working on emulators because in the long term that's the only way games are going to be able to be played by future generations, that's true of both digital and physical releases, in 50 years it's not going to make any difference, it's going to come down to digital files and emulators anyway.
And I don't know about you but I think there's games that are good enough that people should still be able to play them in 50 or even 100 years, like I can still watch the movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari today.
I'm just disappointed I never got to play games like Crimson Skies, Whacked!, Mechassault, DOA Ultimate online and download the DLC for Crimson Skies and Splinter Cell, but that's on me because I could have in theory done so when I had a 360 and Online, I was just too focused on what was current (other than playing Halo 2)
Just something about the original Xbox Live not even lasting a decade that bums me out.
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The concern about emulators is that some may wind up being proprietary in the future. I know Nintendo just took stuff that was already publicly available and just copy and pasted the emulation code into their digital downloads, and essentially stealing the work of pirates and charging for it. They deepsixed a few emulation sites in the past as well.
I mean if we ever start heading towards digital property rights and that becoming a main issue there's a bunch of questions that are going to need legal answers to. Some companies who own the IPs may not have the know how to reverse engineer their own software but some individual party may have figured out a way, so whos' work really belongs to who would need to be figured out.
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I've not played an online multiplayer console game in years, (my last console was the PS3) but in the UK, unless it was a major game like Gears of War or Halo, most games were dead after 2 weeks. Try playing Perfect Dark Zero, or Kane and Lynch, or Tron 2.0. You can boot them up, but good luck finding players.
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The simple(but arguably expensive) answer is to always buy two systems and share the same copy of the game so you can get all the multiplayer shit done for whatever rewards and then move on.
I'm not kidding either, self boosting is a thing. But you can always get a system second hand for a steal down the line.
People also do similar stuff with emulating MMOs old and new.
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Yeah, they were probably dead by 2006, which also makes me wish I played them when they were new, but I had no online at all back then.
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Gonna be honest, this whole situation is making me lean towards Xbox next generation, if for no other reason than the fact I can fucking play original Xbox games on the Series X. Couldn't play PS1 games on my PS4 for reasons that escape me, and the PS5's got scant little information on that front.
That and an Xbox controller would go nice with my PC.
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Are there any fun obscure ass FPS games that will be difficult to play when the store goes down?
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There's Brink who's DLC is digital only.
Xbox series X is going to suffer the same problem, the support they have for the OG Xbox is minimal (it's only 39 supported games) and if you put your disc in it needs to be connected to Microsoft servers to trigger the download. If the Series X is not connected online you can't play your old games since it reads nothing from the discs, the only way to play is if you have the download already installed. Basically if the servers go out, the backwards compatibility is now zero if you want to play older games that you never inserted. There's no actual onboard hardware emulation for Xbox and Xbox 360, they're 100% reliant on servers.
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Sony has been officially dunk'd on, things sure have changed since 2013.
It's Xbox's generation to win now, Sony has cucked out.
Seems like we're just going to keep flipping back and forth between Xbox and PlayStation being the winner generation to generation.
The PS2 beat the Original Xbox, the Xbox 360 beat the PS3, the PS4 beat the Xbox One and now... the Xbox Series X beats the PS5? I guess we'll see.
I do hope Sony can correct course before it's too late though, but Last of Us 2 is a baaaaaaaaaad sign of where they may be headed.
Only FPS that springs to my mind is the HD version of the original Killzone.
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You should hope retards would finally stop supporting Sony.
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They've released Ghosts of Tsushima and Demon's Souls remake since then. During the PS3 era they went though 3 CEOs for Playstation.
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Wasn't Demon's Souls remake terrible?
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No it wasn't, controlled better than the original and got high praise for doing it justice.
People had some opinions on the art direction, but being the original game had a lot to be desired as far as good texture work went they had to fill in a lot of less than optimal spaces. There's a ton of OG areas in DES that look like a PS1 or PS2 game, especially the water in the swamp area and any structure off in the distance like the dragon hills. The more you get towards the edges in the original the less detailed a ton of stuff is. Original Demon's Souls had a troubled development history so not everything was expected to be perfect. The original game had assorted duping methods most commonly the stockpile thomas glitch that was piss easy to do and you could do it right off the bat after the first boss was dead.
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