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An update on PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita (blog.playstation.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/playstation@lemmy.world
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After nearly two decades of supporting the PS3 console generation, we wanted to let you know we will be closing the PlayStation Store on PS3, as well as on PS Vita. PlayStation Store on PS3 will close in select markets starting this year, followed by global closures for PS3 and PS Vita next year. That means new content purchases will no longer be possible once the PlayStation Store closes on these devices. To ease the transition, players will still be able to download previously purchased content after the closing date for the foreseeable future.

As the PlayStation Store continues to evolve to support modern commerce systems, including updated payment processing standards, PS3 and PS Vita are no longer able to support these updates at the level required. As a result, we will need to close PlayStation Store on these devices in the timeframes as follows:

  • Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua – PlayStation Store on PS3 will close starting August 2026.
  • Additional Latin American and Middle Eastern countries – PlayStation Store on PS3 will close starting late 2026.
  • In all other countries, PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita will close in July 2027.

We know this news may be disappointing to PS3 and PS Vita players who hold a special place in their hearts for this generation of gaming. PS3 and PS Vita represent an important era in our PlayStation history, so this was not an easy decision for us to make.

As we continue to expand the PlayStation experience on newer devices that most of our users are playing on today, we need to focus more resources on delivering the best gaming experiences on these platforms as we look ahead towards the future.

To our amazing players, we want to give our heartfelt thanks for your ongoing passion and support, which has helped inspire us to shape PlayStation into what it is today. We are excited for the future ahead as we continue to push the boundaries of play. We look forward to having you on this journey with us as we explore new game worlds and new adventures that have yet to come.

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I thought the store for Vita shut down years ago

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 4 months ago

    They wanted to close it before but there was an outcry, so they made it that you can't directly add money to those stores, but I think you can use gift cards and add through PS site.

    And once money is in your account, you can buy anything. The store works as usual. Well, maybe that's a stretch, cause there are no sales anymore, so whatever you buy, you have to buy at full price.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Let the Vita scalping begin!

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    [–] 43 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    for the foreseeable future

    Meaning someday you won’t even be able to access games you’ve bought. Got it. They‘re on a roll when it comes to very short sighted decisions. What a monumental dumpster fire Sony has become.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    The ability to download and keep the installer is why I've put more into GOG than any console. You want to shut down the cloud host for everything I bought fine, but send a disk that I can replicate for backups in the mail before you do.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well, promising something "forever" can become a huge liability. You never know how the world and tech may change. I think forseeable future is good enough in this case, but it's possible I have been brainwashed to expect less from such corporations.

    That being said, what they could do, was move all PS3/Vita games to their newer PS4/PS5 store, turn off the older store and only keep the bits required for signin and any validity check. And make a new store app for PS3 and Vita, with up-to-date security. This should make keeping everything patched up much simpler, and won't need them to close the store.

    This of course makes huge assumptions about how their system is. And while it can be done regardless, the resources required for the change can be huge, but I think this would have earned them lots of goodwill, even from people who don't have PS3/ Vita. Specially when they are going all digital. A kind of sign that at least we would be able to buy and play these games for as long as we want.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    They should just let people archive their purchased software onto physical media and install them on any other PS3 they use. Not like it'd be costing them sales or anything, since they're removing the ability to give them money.

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    • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    announcing this the same day as the phasing out of physical discs is… a choice lol

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    • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I swear Sony is just trying to see how many rounds they can shoot into their foot and still hobble to the bank. They are gonna blow one too many toes off...

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    • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    SD2Vita coupled with nopaystation = fuck you Sony.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    This might not be as big a news article as people claim, though I see how it can feel that way amid the disc closure announcement.

    If they do it like some systems, you might be able to open a web browser to make the purchase, and then download it on the system. When it’s happened before (I forget which system), the main reason was simply that the device didn’t support newer HTTPS connections for payment info.

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