This impacts nothing.

"Devastating" lmao.

The vita has a huge library of PS1 and psp games. That's a shame, I like to play some old skool stuff once in a while and I haven't had nearly enough time to play everything that interests me on my vita and I'm not going to go and spend hundreds to purchase every game now before the store closes.

Such a shame

Praise the pirates who will archive these.

It... really doesn't.

The number of times I've heard this hyperbolic claim only for classic games to be resurrected is insane.

I also love how only NOW is game preservation a hot topic. Only when it can be misused as console war ammo. And even then, only when Sony did it. Nintendo did this many times and everyone was silent over it. Hell, Nintendo's even gone out of their way to stop the archival of their games online, something most other companies at least mostly ignore. (Only to then use one of those ROMs for a virtual console release of one of their old games, funnily enough)

People also wanna go after consoles for dead CMOS batteries all of the sudden, yet still have no issues with an Xbox REQUIRING online activation to ever even operate. Dead out of the box without it.

It's just tiresome. The fake concern is exhausting.

Good to hear Sony has that kind of an impact on the industry but, its always a shame nobody ever realizes it until its too late. Oddly enough, some people are just now experiencing the PS3 and what Cell brought to gaming and PS3s are more expensive now then they were at the price drop.

Sony killing off their handheld devices only affects Sony, but the industry? Not quite, Nintendo Switch has that covered and it works just fine.

Also Microsoft with their game pass is suppose to be able to play online with any devices, taht inlude tables and phones to there is another method of portability.

Xbox prioritizing live services over making games is devastating for gamers.

I kep reading that Sony didn't alert devs they were taking down those stores in advance.

All Sony have to do is release a PS4 portable and they'd be swimming in money.

PSP store shut down 5yrs ago. PS3/Vita store hardly ever gets used. Clickbait nonsense. Of all the news the Vita messaging getting nuked it the worst bit as that makes some games Multiplayer/Co-op unplayable and some trophies unachievable.

People are looking at this “small picture!” How do we know Sony doesn’t have something up their sleeve? All of these PS3 titles, PSP titles and PS Vita titles aren’t going to disappear into nothingness. It certainly sucks for now, but I have faith that Sony is up to something. Seeing Nintendo’s success with the switch, it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if Sony comes up with some sort of new hand held that is compatible with the PS5 in some way. That’s probably a radical idea, and maybe I’m being hopeful. It just seems odd that Sony would just walk away from ps3 to Vita games and say “screw you!” to their core fan base.

The drama these days is so laughable. Killing off a 10-15 year old console that barely 5% ever use these days. Are they melting down all the physical copies. People just love a drama. Mario is dead Sony and Nintendo don’t care about the past well ignore all the ps1 remakes ps3 ports ps2 classics mini ps1 nes/SNES, nes SNES games on switch online. Virtual console still works on 3DS. Yet 12-18 months ago Nintendo too many ports they live off their past. People gotta make their minds up you want old or new 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

This is going to happen all the time, why are they writing about it lol. Happened with the GB, GBA, DS, etc. Best thing to do is download all the roms from every console (which I have pretty much) and make an emulation machine like the Raspberry Pi 4 or use your PC. Best information for anything emulation: https://www.youtube.com/cha... ETA Prime 😁👍🎮 An example for a mini PC for emulation under 100$: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

It has a big impact there alot of games that didn't get hard copys I get it. The vita was packed full of some good indies. Btw if your not buying hard copys well it really sucks to be you in the long run. Get off your ass go to a store and buy it if there is a hard copy. This digital shit just going make classic game prices go up. Sony MS and nintendo keep trying to shove this digital shit down our throats. Stop buying digital or streaming your games. We got the power to force them to do this another way.

It's disgusting seeing so many people defend this decision. What ACTUAL good and how does it benefit YOU to lose access to hundreds of games that released only on PS3 and VITA? it isn't about hating on SONY it's about pointing out just how bad of a decision this is. How much would it cost em to keep these stores operational? I've never seen so many people so willing to just lose Access to digital purchases. Sure atm you can redownload games already bought but what then when they decide they don't wanna maintain where the licenses are stored?

Increasingly harder for me personally to justify buying a PS5 without some guarantee that games I bought in previous gens are going to be eventually accessible in the future. YOU may be buying a new console to play new games but old, new, doesn't matter, they're games I spent MONEY on and I'm not about to just give em away.

All this moaning about nothing, I expect the ones moaning haven't touched there ps3, vita in years. Services close, servers get closed with certain games, then become useless to the online crowd. Get over it, should buy more physical games!!