Sony Backtracks on PS3 & PS Vita PlayStation Store Closure

Sony had beforehand introduced plans to close down the PlayStation digital retailer for PS3 and PS Vita gadgets later this yr however after the general public backlash they’ve determined to reverse this choice and now plan to maintain the shop open on these gadgets for the “foreseeable future”. Sony acknowledged that their choice to close down the shop was a mistake and that they had been impressed by the passionate avid gamers who wished the shop to stay reside. This transfer will assist to protect the digital-only video games launched on the platforms. Sony nonetheless intends to retire PSP commerce performance on July 2nd as deliberate, the complete announcement could be discovered beneath.

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Recently, we notified gamers that PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita gadgets was deliberate to finish this summer time.

Upon additional reflection, nonetheless, it is clear that we made the mistaken choice right here. So at this time I’m completely happy to say that we are going to be conserving the PlayStation Store operational for PS3 and PS Vita gadgets. PSP commerce performance will retire on July 2, 2021 as deliberate.

When we initially got here to the choice to finish buying assist for PS3 and PS Vita, it was born out of various elements, together with commerce assist challenges for older gadgets and the power for us to focus extra of our sources on newer gadgets the place a majority of our avid gamers are enjoying on. We see now that lots of you’re extremely keen about having the ability to proceed buying traditional video games on PS3 and PS Vita for the foreseeable future, so I’m glad we had been capable of finding an answer to proceed operations.

I’m glad that we will hold this piece of our historical past alive for avid gamers to get pleasure from, whereas we proceed to create cutting-edge new recreation worlds for PS4, PS5, and the following era of VR.

Thank you for sharing your suggestions with us – we’re all the time listening and admire the assist from our PlayStation group.

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