Due to the closure of older versions of the PS Store, about 2,200 digital games will disappear – Igromania

Portal VGC analyzed the upcoming closure PS Store for PS3, PSP and PS Vitaafter discovering that about 2,200 games would disappear from stores because of this.

As a reminder, the PS Store for PSP and PS3 will close on July 2, and for PS Vita on August 27.
Previously purchased games will remain with users in the library, they can be downloaded and launched again. But buying something new will not work.

VGC notes that many projects will remain available on other platforms, including older consoles itself. Playstation

However, 120 games from the list will disappear irrevocably, among them:

  • InFamous: Festival of Blood
  • Echochrome II
  • Lumines supernova
  • The last guy
  • Rain
  • Trash panic
  • Pain
  • PixelJunk Racers
  • Tokyo jungle
  • TxK
  • MotorStorm RC.

Total digital stores will disappear

  • About 630 Vita Games
  • About 730 projects for PS3 (PSN)
  • Few PSP games
  • 293 PS Mini projects
  • 336 classic PS2 games
  • About 260 classic projects for PS1 (especially Vita and PSP).

According to the portal, it will be difficult to get individual projects in physical format – in 2017, about 630 games for Vita, for example, were available only “in digital form”. That number should be higher today.

The PSP was a little more fortunate, since most of the projects for it were not yet released in digital form.

Some games in the future will only be available on platforms Microsoft, for example:

  • Beyond Good & Evil HD
  • Rayman 3 hd
  • Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD
  • SoulCalibur II HD Online
  • Lara croft and the guardian of light
  • Bionic Commando.

Strongest among publishers from such a decision Sony suffered SEGA, whose separate HD re-releases will also be available only from Microsoft:

  • Daytona USA
  • Fighting Vipers
  • Jet set radio
  • Nights into Dreams
  • both parts of Sonic Adventure
  • Sonic the Fighters
  • Sonic CD
  • Virtua Fighter 2
  • Space Channel 5 Part 2

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronices will be exclusives again Wiisince the games were only released digitally on the PS3.

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