Sony to end support this summer PlayStation Store on the Playstation 3, PS Vita and PSP… Previously purchased content will not disappear anywhere, but as the portal calculated Video Games Chronicle, the shutdown of online stores will lead to the fact that more than two thousand games, released only in digital format, will no longer be available for purchase.
Since Sony has already closed the browser version of the old PS Store, this made it difficult to find the exact data. The journalists had to compile the lists on their own, based on various open sources, including information about trophies, so there may be some discrepancies with real numbers. Anyway, a total of order 2200 digital games will no longer be available after PS Store shutdown on discontinued consoles… Among them:
- About 630 digital games for PS Vita;
- About 730 digital PS3 games;
- Few digital PSP games;
- 293 PlayStation Minis games
- 336 PS2 Classics games
- About 260 PS1 Classics games.
The vast majority of these projects are on other platforms, however near 120 of these will be lost forever after the PS Store closes… We are talking about exclusives that came out only in digital. These include Infamous: Festival of Blood, MotorStorm RC, Tokyo jungle, Rain other.
At the same time, a number of digital games will to some extent automatically become Xbox console exclusives, where marketplaces continue to operate. This applies to Beyond Good & Evil HD, Rayman 3 HD, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD, SoulCalibur II HD Online, Resident Evil Code: Veronica X, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Bionic Commando.
The strongest publisher will be affected by Sony’s decision SEGAreleased in PSN and Xbox Live Arcade many HD re-releases of their old titles such as Sonic Adventure 1-2, Sonic the Fighters, Sonic CD, Virtua Fighter 2, Daytona USA, Jet Set Radio, NiGHTS Into Dreams and Space Channel 5: Part 2. All of them will also be available only on Xbox (and PC) consoles.
On other platforms, “exclusives” will also increase. For example, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronices will once again legally only be available on the Nintendo Wii as they were released exclusively digitally on the PS3. In the case of the Wii, the online store has long been closed, but both games can still be found in retail.
The main conclusion that VGC draws from all this: the case with the PS Store, as well as the previously closed DSi Shop and Wii Shop Channel, show that digital storage does not last forever and no system is immune from such a fate, no matter how popular it is. This year PS4 will celebrate its eighth anniversary and it is not a fact that in a few years the same will not happen to it.
Read also: “Learned PS Vita Store Closure From News”: Handheld Game Developers Disappointed With Sony Decision…
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