Players will be able to continue to purchase games on PS3 and PS Vita.
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.
When we initially came to the decision to end purchasing support for PS3 and PS Vita, it was born out of a number of factors, including commerce support challenges for older devices and the ability for us to focus more of our resources on newer devices where a majority of our gamers are playing on. We see now that many of you are incredibly passionate about being able to continue purchasing classic games on PS3 and PS Vita for the foreseeable future, so I’m glad we were able to find a solution to continue operations.
I’m glad that we can keep this piece of our history alive for gamers to enjoy, while we continue to create cutting-edge new game worlds for PS4, PS5, and the next generation of VR.
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us – we’re always listening and appreciate the support from our PlayStation community.
Thank you, Jim!
I suspect this is Jim being forced to backtrack.
Thank you Jim so very much.
I was already buying games early January when the website store front was closing.
I bought a bunch of them recently but last Friday I got laid off due to Covid19 and was wondering how the heck I was going to buy those other games.
Which I will eventually but this buys me some time to figure everything out with my budget.
Thank You so very much.
There’s a bunch of games that are obviously missing, some of them I believe there’s a better PS4 version which I will probably be getting instead.
For what ?
For lying to his customers ?
Or for putting his mlb game on gamepass?
Or for cut funding japan studio
And abandon Japanese games ?
Yeah, fast im going to agree with you in that, abandoning Japense games and JPN studio is awful.
Oh The real ghost.
Jim ryan is stupid to realise that Japanese games is more creative and fun to PLAY then his Western Cinematic games (interactive movies)
There’s nothing to “thank” here either than to acknowledge the fact that Jim shows he’s not always as stubborn as he usually is. He can still listen and think after all. Also, the least said about Herman Hulst or whatever, the better.
It’s been a blessing in disguise not being able to get a PS5 and having to be content with my PS4 Pro, however I had already decided that I’ll be getting a Xbox Series X as games on the Xbox Store not only go for dirt cheap sometimes, but more so because of that CMOS battery issue. Face it, we’ve been duped by Sony and now more than ever I fear for my PS3 & PS4 lifespan after learning about that. PS2 I’m ok as it still works, sadly my PS1 not anymore.
Nevertheless my message to you Jimmy is that not only keep those stores open, but give out sales on PS3 and Vita games. Heck, Microsoft is still dishing out sales on Xbox 360 games. You mean to tell me you can’t do the same? And lastly, as a final request to you Jimmy, you put the games MGS4 & Remember Me up for sale and I MAY (a big fat one at that), consider remaining with Sony as I and everyone else has over the years.
Oh, and very very lastly (pardon me), any chance of TLOU2 going on Playstation Hits sooner than later as there’s no way I’m getting for anything higher than the price of the ‘Playstation Hits’ price.
Bye… (not thank you)
We won, Mr. Stark!!!
Fast_fabulous0: MLB The Show had to go multiplatform for Sony to keep the license, and it was MLB that dictated that it go on Xbox Game Pass.
@Fast_fabulous0
It wasn’t Jim Ryan’s decision to put MLB The Show on other platforms let alone Game Pass. That was entirely MLB and a deal they signed as the publisher.
I thought well even if they go to other platforms, then continue making them and make more money, but since MLB is the publisher and they stabbed PlayStation in the back, I’m not sure if we should even make these games but let’s not make hasty decisions.
I would make sure that it won’t happen a second time for sure.
The thing I want the most from Japan Studios is a new Legend of Dragoon or a Remake. I don’t care if it’s a 4 game compilation, so long as they last 30 hours per game, like Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
First Sony told them not to make AAA games like Legend of Dragoon because they cost too much, now they are saying that the lower cost games don’t sell well.
Just make a Legend of Dragoon Remake already
@Chomza85
The DRM is just as bad on the Xbox Series of consoles. Your game won’t even launch if it can’t connect to a server. It’s not better at all.
Game Pass is a subscription, you stop paying, you stop playing these games. You don’t own anything there either.
Even if the stores were to close, the fact remains that we still would have had the ability to connect and re-download those games down the line, unlike Nintendo that just removes the store without any options to re-download the purchased games.
I will be thanking good business decisions and I’m sure Jim will find a way to counter those CBombs, or I should say will tell Marc Cerny to find another way not to loose your entire library, granted, you can always re-download them.
@fastfabulous
Sorry where did he lie? He didn’t put MLB on gamespass mobile did. They ate the publisher on xbox and Sony have no choice in that after a court case last year. Get your facts right. As for Japan studio it is and always has been a support studio they have created a new studio effectively out of team asobi the creators of astrobot. Otherwise Japan studio will be operating as a support studio. The studio has not released many of its own titles in recent year anyway I think ignoring the astrobot titles it’s released two games in a decade… the last guardian which was plagued by development issues and the puppeteer which was a tiny indie game. It supported development of titles like bloodborne and will continue to fulfil that role so not sure wtf you are on about there… my guess is you don’t actually know what you are on about either. Sony haven’t abandoned Japanese games… given their work eith lorica studios to date and final fantasy titles as exclusives support for a range of other Japanese titles recently and in the near future thst is clearly and patently incorrect. Again you simply demonstrate that you don’t have a clue what you are on about. If the reports are true Sony have simple expressed a wish to not fund games that will only sell in Japan and have a tiny niche of market viability which is totally reasonable considering how much the console market appears to have shrunk in Japan. Did you buy every Japanese made PlayStation title on relesse for full price? If you did my hat off to you, if as I suspect you didn’t and passed on many such games which is normal if a title doesn’t appeal to you; however leaves you without a leg to stand on when a business decides to stop producing content that doesn’t make them profit… to concentrate on vastly more profitable ventures. Also it’s worth noting Japanese players and Japanese gaming has consistently moved in the direction of mobile ganing away from console gaming. So unless you want them to fund a whole load of mobile game titles I’d suggest shutting up because I suspect no one here wants that.
*mlb not mobile abd *kojima studios not lorka.
@extermin8or_
No one here is clueless other then you
1- he decided to renew mlb deal by knowing he will lose the control for the ip & will making it for his main rival console
2- Japan studio is been a supporting team because they want them to be like that from the very beginning
3- Japanese market is not a niche market.
not because some Japanese games is only selling in japan have no bright future to sell in the rest of the world
( persona 5 is good example)
Honey just look at Nintendo how they are selling the switch like a hot cake out there
You know why ? Because they make great games that fit the Japanese taste and the globe.
Please don’t believe this is all a we heard you and have gave you what you want. When they told everyone that they were closing them they made a point to highlight you can still download what you own. Not long after they removed the line about that because the publisher of said games shut down updates and where ready to remove the licenses that we rent for a one off payment and in turn you lose the game. That would have led to class action law suits and so on
It’s the competition that forced Jim’s backtrack.
I think it needs to be said.
The PS5 needs access to the PS3, PSP and Vita Store and able to play these games.
There are ways to recompile games to make them compatible without using an emulator.
An emulator can also be used, there are some on PC that do work.
Sony can hire a small team to just work on recompiling them, there are softwares that exists that recompile PS3 and PS2 games, so why not have a software like that and get them ported over with better resolutions and frame rate without going all out for a “Remaster”
Look why you said the psp is closing on july 2 and we have to keep purushing