PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita Will Continue Operations

… If anybody at Playstation is old enough to remember this username, you probably already know what I’m going to reply with:

HAVE AN EXIT STRATEGY.

I’ve been over this hundreds, if not thousands, of times in the past, on forums, in emails, in instant messaging clients, and even in person at various conventions and expositions. Gaming, like any entertainment industry, is founded on a long-tail economic model. “Good” games are still a valuable experience years after their debut. We are far past the point where KOTOR rocketing to the top of Steam charts created a completely shocked reaction from Star Wars IP holders who had no idea how to handle a game they buried outselling everything else.

We are past the point where serious discussions on how to hand off online service to the fan-base were required. We are past the point where an Open-Source Licensing Strategy of server components should be baked into the EXIT STRATEGY from ZERO DAY. We are past the point where consumers should be able to establish their own private servers and reconfigure their Software or Hardware systems to point to those servers (or other servers) for expected services.

Fine, a lot of people bought into the the Gates/Ballmer LIE that Open-Source was a cancer and that proprietary software was the only solution. Fine, Sony has equaled the F.U.D. Gates/Ballmer spewed and matched every rotten move Microsoft has made (Intel P3 hardware and TPM vs. Sony Rootkit). Fine, Sony Movie Pictures arranged to have Sony’s best president removed for getting in the way of their bonus checks for winning political awards, that being Kaz Hirai who oversaw the PS4 launch and is widely credited with bringing Sony Pictures to heel on the MCU Spidey crossover.

We get it. The people pulling the executive strings inside Sony now are rotten scumbags who politically align with the Eco Terrorist Bill Gates (who literally owns patents on BIOWEAPONS.) We get it that nobody within Playstation likely had input on shuttering former Sony Product services.

We get it that the executive lack of leadership at Sony had no idea how to handle the backlash and just decided to revert to the status quo.

This? This isn’t the end of terrible decisions from Sony. This isn’t an Exit Strategy to hand control of consoles to the consumers who bought them.

Reading anything positive into this announcement? Is a mistake.