Sony to keep PS3, Vita stores open: Report
By IANS| Posted by Minhaj Adnan | Published: 20th April 2021 4:12 pm IST
The PSP’s store will still be shut down on July 2, 2021, as originally planned.
“Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here. So today I’m happy to say that we will be keeping the PlayStation Store operational for PS3 and PS Vita devices,” Jim Ryan, President and CEO, Sony Interactive Entertainment, said in a blogpost.
“PSP commerce functionality will retire on July 2, 2021, as planned,” Ryan added.
According to the blogpost, the closure of the three stores would have seen the disappearance of more than 2,000 digital exclusive games among the three platforms, and that didn’t count any of the PS Vita games due to be released over the coming months.
Sony Backtracks PS3, PS Vita Online Store Closures
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Sony has officially confirmed it will be backtracking its decision to close the PlayStation Stores associated with the PS3 and PS Vita consoles. The PSP online storefront will still close on 2nd July 2021, but the ensuing closure no longer affects the PS3 and PS Vita. Confirmed in a PlayStation Blog post, Jim Ryan said: Recently, we notified players that PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita devices was planned to end this summer. Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here. So today I’m happy to say that we will be keeping the PlayStation Store operational for PS3 and PS Vita devices. PSP commerce functionality will retire on July 2, 2021 as planned.
perhaps-it-was-getting-too-hot dept
Mon, Apr 11th 2011 1:30pm
Mike Masnick
Sony has been getting widely slammed across the gaming and tech press for its bizarre and self-destructive lawsuit against George Hotz (Geohot), for jailbreaking the PS3 in order to re-enable a feature that Sony had long-advertised, but then deleted off of people s existing PS3s. The entire lawsuit made little sense, and Sony s quixotic attempt to continue to pursue it just got more and more bizarre, with the company even seeking and gaining access to the IP addresses of people visiting his website or watching the YouTube video he put up. However, it appears that the two sides have now settled their lawsuit, with Geohot agreeing to an injunction of some sort that apparently bars him from helping make PS3s more valuable in the future. Congrats, Sony, you ve made your gaming devices less valuable. Quite a legal victory there.
don t-complain-until-you re-in-his-shoes. dept
Wed, Apr 13th 2011 7:11pm
Mike Masnick
Via Slashdot, comes the news that a bunch of George Hotz (geohot) supporters are angry he decided to settle with Sony, as we recently discussed. Part of this is due to some of Geohot s own bluster during the lawsuit, including this statement: What if SCEA tries to settle? Let s just say, I want the settlement terms to include OtherOS on all PS3s and an apology on the PlayStation blog for ever removing it. It d be good PR for Sony too, lord knows they could use it. I m also willing to accept a trade, a legit path to homebrew for knowledge of how to stop new firmwares from being decrypted.
Fri, Apr 16th 2021 7:39pm
Timothy Geigner
We ve had a couple of discussions now about video game preservation with the impetus being Sony s shutdown of support for the PlayStation Store for PSP, PS3, and Vita owners. The general idea there was questioning what happens to games for those systems in the very long term if suddenly nobody can get to them anymore and the developers and publishers are not always retaining the source code and assets for these games on their end. That sort of thing is probably primarily of interest to us folks who look at these games as a form of art and culture, very much worth preserving.