Well, so if enough people protest, they'll refrain from screwing them over... temporarily.
Lame. What I'd hope would be that they admit they were wrong to even try it, and promise not to do anything similar in the future. But that's not what happened.
The PS3 was introduced almost 15 years ago, and new sales stopped almost five years ago. How long do you think they should continue to sell games for it? Why is it "wrong to even try" to stop selling games for obsolete platforms -- and why do you think that will always be wrong?
Servers: Free. Storage space: Free. Network connectivity: Free. Software and database maintenance as they develop the rest of their stack: Free. It is free, all free!
The cost for those servers and storage is iminimal. All those games dont add up to billions of dollars of hd space on AWS. If anything they could make small profit selling subscriptions and so on and it cant cost more than a few dozen and im being generous to run that.
Secondly why would they need to change anything if at all, just let it run with minor improvements or fixes.
The cost for those servers and storage is minimal.
Until you have to replace the hardware because it's old and you can't get replacement parts. Then you have to buy all new hardware or migrate the service to the cloud. Both options have a cost and require manpower. If the service isn't generating new revenue, the bean counters are not going to be happy with either choice.
lets pretend its either of the two, the value is not that much considering the size of Sony. Im sure they can spare a few 100k to keep this going and pay for all related costs.
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Well, so if enough people protest, they'll refrain from screwing them over... temporarily.
Lame. What I'd hope would be that they admit they were wrong to even try it, and promise not to do anything similar in the future. But that's not what happened.
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The PS3 was introduced almost 15 years ago, and new sales stopped almost five years ago. How long do you think they should continue to sell games for it? Why is it "wrong to even try" to stop selling games for obsolete platforms -- and why do you think that will always be wrong?
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Because they don't need to stop it, and it doesn't cost them anything to leave it up.
It isn't like they're not longer a game company, or they no longer have webservers running that stuff.
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Servers: Free. Storage space: Free. Network connectivity: Free. Software and database maintenance as they develop the rest of their stack: Free. It is free, all free!
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The cost for those servers and storage is minimal.
Until you have to replace the hardware because it's old and you can't get replacement parts. Then you have to buy all new hardware or migrate the service to the cloud. Both options have a cost and require manpower. If the service isn't generating new revenue, the bean counters are not going to be happy with either choice.
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