After planning to shut down on-line shops for the PSP, PS Vita and PlayStation Three again in March, Sony has solely gone forward with closing down the PSP retailer yesterday.
After asserting again in March plans to shut down the PSP, PS Vita and PlayStation Three shops throughout summer season, Sony confronted appreciable backlash from followers nonetheless utilizing the consoles and since backtracked their resolution to scuttle shops for the PS Vita and PlayStation 3.
Unfortunately, the PSP wasn’t spared from the culling of the net storefronts, which means these with the hand-held console can not purchase video games instantly on the PlayStation Portable. Any video games beforehand bought on the console are fortunately nonetheless playable even after the shops closing.
It’s not all dangerous information for followers of the PlayStation Portable handheld, because the PSP retailer unique video games aren’t being wiped from existence as as an alternative, you’ll be capable to play them elsewhere Sony has introduced. It additionally seems that you could nonetheless entry in-game shops by means of the console, with the intention to purchase any DLC in video games that enable this.
While the PS3 and PS Vita stay on, for now, there’s no telling simply how lengthy they could final earlier than Sony needs to cease paying these costly server prices for a dwindling console participant base. In the announcement suspending their demise from again in April, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan solely mentioned that they’ll be round “for the foreseeable future.”
