Bixler Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Well, time to snap up a handful of classic JRPGs whose discs cost an absolute fortune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher5.0 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Im not surprised but it is a major let down. This effectively kills the Vita. Im not sure if Sony will still press PS3 discs but 15 years is still an amazing run. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 Limited Run games releases the occasional PS3 game and may again in the future. Yep, we all know digital sucks. That's why I'm not buying any more consoles, just sticking to PC at this point. What PS3 and Vita digital only titles are "must buy"? Going to make a few purchases before the stores close down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 12 minutes ago, Rick Dangerous said: Limited Run games releases the occasional PS3 game and may again in the future. Yep, we all know digital sucks. That's why I'm not buying any more consoles, just sticking to PC at this point. What PS3 and Vita digital only titles are "must buy"? Going to make a few purchases before the stores close down. FarCry Classic is one for sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 On 3/23/2021 at 3:03 AM, 0078265317 said: Probably a good idea. I think I have most of my stuff downloaded anyway given that I download everything when I buy it, but I do have a second PS3 that doesn't have everything redownloaded to it. I may have to turn that one on to see what I can redownload. As mentioned above the way to do that is to go to your downloads list which will show all your digital purchases and let you download them from there rather than going through the store. Just because the store is closing it's not explicitly said that being able to re-download from the download list will be axed as well, but it's probably better to be safe than sorry. I think the only downside for me on this is that my Vita and PSP doesn't have everything purchased downloaded simply because of the crazy small sizes of their prop. memory cards. I might take a look on amazon to see if it's possible to find a 64gig cart still... although they were hard to find even back in the day. If I find one that's affordable I might redownload everything onto it, and depending on available space might try to add some more stuff from the shop before it goes away. (I'm not holding my breath though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 8 hours ago, Rick Dangerous said: Yep, we all know digital sucks. That's why I'm not buying any more consoles, just sticking to PC at this point. Yeah, I'm probably in the same boat although I don't know if I'll be buying much more on PC than I already do (which is mostly things that hit critical sales levels which still happens on PC from time to time compared to consoles) I'm probably more likely to regress into older consoles more and buy up things from PS2 and earlier - before the DLC plague began. I looked at the PS5 and I really don't see any desire to get it. Kind of the same feeling I had for the PS4 although still gave that one a chance to prove itself. While there were some good games on it I still don't feel like it's justified it's purchase. (And Xbox is dead to me already, so getting their new console isn't even on the table.) The general unavailability of buying either of the consoles at present, even now due to scalpers, is also a consideration but a far second to the fact that I'm just not interested in either of them nor the games available on them. I do have interest currently in the Switch, but given that I play that rarely as well means it might be my last handheld/console as well except potentially a backwards compatible HD upgrade Switch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 House of the Dead 4 is one of the few things I can think of that's truly a PS3 digital exclusive. If you have any interest in that franchise and own a PS3, it's definitely worth considering. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 (edited) I saw this coming years ago which is why I switched to PC permanently and only physical exclusives on Sony (God of War, Uncharted). Lots of titles will be lost forever. https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/04/02/2000-digital-only-games-lost-ps3-psp-vita-ps-store-closures-playstation/ https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/revealed-the-138-playstation-games-that-wont-be-available-anywhere-after-store-closures/ Pirate the shit out of Sony. It's totally fine. Edited April 6, 2021 by cimerians 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Any recommendations on essentials from the list of 138? Particularly those from independent developers and published by companies other than Sony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Not a single game will actually be lost. Not available via legit Sony download server means? Sure. Every single one is in PKG format all over the internet right now and will never go away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Maybe developers should start selling their pkg files on Itch.io. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, Shawn said: Not a single game will actually be lost. Not available via legit Sony download server means? Sure. Every single one is in PKG format all over the internet right now and will never go away. Exactly. 1 hour ago, jgkspsx said: Maybe developers should start selling their pkg files on Itch.io. Sony as a pub. probably has distribution rights etc. so the devs are screwed. If so, better to spread it around on the internet as files. F' them (sony) Edited April 11, 2021 by cimerians Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 The ones that were published by Sony are probably screwed, but most recent releases were not published by Sony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) On 3/24/2021 at 3:37 PM, Mikebloke said: Aggh just put my ps3 away but pretty sure everything I bought is downloaded. I have things like suikoden 3 and vandal hearts 3 on it, vandal hearts 3 in particular was download only and never ended up on anything else. Vandal-Hearts: Flames of Judgment was also on Xbox 360. I have an RGH Xbox 360 Slim and a backup of that game works fine on it without even going online. I did buy it on PS3 first back when it was fairly new. That game was great. Just wished it had twice the length and twice the characters like the original. I should work on getting my 60GB PS3 and Vita modded first I guess. PSP I did years ago. I barely ever used my Vita and the only 2 games I bought were physical copies of Dungeon Hunter Alliance and the Tetris game that it had. Edited April 18, 2021 by TheGameCollector 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoolDave Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 On 3/23/2021 at 1:44 PM, NeonSpaceBeagle said: this is why i hate digital. I've had a few digital games on PS4 already go missing over the years. I collected physical for most of my ps4 collection, but in reality is there even a point? Almost all the physical games seem to have day one patches to fix stuff, or add stuff that was never on the disc.. So 10-20 years from now, if I hook up my PS4 and let's say I'm dirt poor and don't even have internet access, can I still play the games after installing from the disc even though they are unpatched versions? As long as your internal battery does not die in your PS4, you should be fine. The PS4 and PS5 for that matter are time bombs if the online services fail. https://www.techradar.com/news/ps4-clock-battery-death-could-brick-your-console I think before they kill the PS4, I will rip apart my PS4 to replace the battery so I should be able to get another 8-10 years out of it... Or you can hack it, that will solve that issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 15 hours ago, TheGameCollector said: Vandal-Hearts: Flames of Judgment was also on Xbox 360. I have an RGH Xbox 360 Slim and a backup of that game works fine on it without even going online. I did buy it on PS3 first back when it was fairly new. That game was great. Just wished it had twice the length and twice the characters like the original. I should work on getting my 60GB PS3 and Vita modded first I guess. PSP I did years ago. I barely ever used my Vita and the only 2 games I bought were physical copies of Dungeon Hunter Alliance and the Tetris game that it had. Ahh thanks for the info, I only actually got a 360 "recently" a few years ago, so wasn't aware that it also released on that! But its safely installed at least for now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeonSpaceBeagle Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 in regards to the PS3, what happens when one's hard drive dies after the server goes down? do you just back these onto an external hard drive? i still have to do that for my ps4, but somewhere in the last few weeks I decided to just not care about it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Time to edit the thread title. https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/19/playstation-store-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-will-continue-operations/ 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 19 minutes ago, Atariboy said: Time to edit the thread title. https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/19/playstation-store-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-will-continue-operations/ At last, some good news!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzie.P Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Wonder if they were just testing the waters to see how we'd react, or if they were swayed by the amount of purchases from people panic buying? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher5.0 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Awesome news. I hope new games can still be added to the store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamon Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Sony and Microsoft are really good at reading the room, what with these announcement flip-flops... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 That’s great news. It seemed crazy, and only Nintendo is that crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Not going to stop the modding but this will buy some time to find ways around things when they do finally get around to pulling the plug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Would like to see the faces of scalpers who made some heavy "investments" when they read this news item Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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