I bought a bunch of games after the news of the closure and I guess many others must have done the same for them to take notice of the sudden revenue. Good that the store is staying up, you'll have to pry my Vita out of my cold dead hands.
I don't think it's that. I think they noticed the immense amount of negative press they're getting over it over the CBOMB issue and are extremely worried because compatibility wise, the PS5 sucks. It only plays PS4 games. With the announcement of shutting down the PS3 and Vita stores, people saw CBOMB was really around the corner because once they shut down the stores, how long is Sony going to keep the servers needed running?
Contrast that with Microsoft, which has a worse issue (the Xbox cannot be activated without internet), but since the Xbox Series X can play games going all the way back to the OG Xbox, Microsoft will be much less likely to shut down the store.
PS3 games cannot be played on PS4 or PS5, thus you must have a PS3 to play them. PS3s are old and no one plays them anymore therefore they don't matter, at least to Sony. But the Xbox is playing games going back to 2001? There may be no OG Xboxes still running out there, but the games for it can play on the latest (and even across generations - an OG Xbox game running on an OG Xbox can still LAN play with an Xbox360 with the same game alongside an Xbox One and Xbox Series all running the same game on the same LAN, so one game on 4 generations of hardware can still LAN play.
Sony wants to promote their Playstation Now service, but it doesn't handle games you already own.
And with Xbox Game Pass offering up OG Xbox games to download and play too, Microsoft certainly doesn't seem to be wanting to kill the OG Xbox or Xbox360 stores anytime soon.
In other words, competition made Sony look very bad, and these are still the early days of PS5 and Xbox Series consoles. With PS5s still locked up by scalpers, things like this can easily sway a public fed up with not getting a unit (and knowing PS5 releases will cause supplies to tighten even more) to the competition. Especially since you can find the Xbox Series X and S in stores now - I've seen a few at my local Walmart. And this is affecting developers - they see PS5s go to scalpers which they see as someone who isn't buying their game, so why invest in developing for the PS5 right now? If they can, develop "for the other guys" first and then port it to PS5 when there are more consoles in the hands of players.
Sony wants to promote their Playstation Now service, but it doesn't handle games you already [strike]own[/strike] rent.
FTFY. The pay-to-rent issue isn't unique to Sony PSN. Microsoft, Steam and everybody that uses DRM (i.e.: except GoG) means the product you "buy" will only work so long as they allow it to. When they shut down their servers, or go out of business, you're screwed.
In other words, competition made Sony look very bad, and these are still the early days of PS5 and Xbox Series consoles.
It is Sony, though. They'll probably screw up the credit-card processing, or forget to renew the domain, or the SSL cert. Maybe they'll screw up search, or make the download button redirect to the logout page. What can you do? Market pushback can't fix incompetence.
I've got a PS3 and a PS4, and I find the ability of Sony to go from weakness to weakness astounding. They have billions of dollars, it can't be THAT hard not to repeatedly own-goal yourself.
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Holy shit I thought I was the only one who couldn't add fucming funds to my wallet with a credit card -- I have to buy fucking PSN gift card on amazon and add those to my account. No amount of customer service communication could fix it -- WTF!
Sony lost interest in the Vita after the PS4 took off. They just forgot all about its existence and basically stopped caring about it. They stopped making it years ago and as far as Sony was concerned, the PS4 was number one because the Vita, well, it's not selling like the PS4 was.
I still remember the Sony aisles in the store - it would be packed full of PS4 games and PS4 accessories, and then there was the lonely rack of Vita stuff. With maybe 1 Vita game on the
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I don't think it's that. I think they noticed the immense amount of negative press they're getting over it over the CBOMB issue and are extremely worried because compatibility wise, the PS5 sucks. It only plays PS4 games. With the announcement of shutting down the PS3 and Vita stores, people saw CBOMB was really around the corner because once they shut down the stores, how long is Sony going to keep the servers needed running?
Contrast that with Microsoft, which has a worse issue (the Xbox cannot be activated without internet), but since the Xbox Series X can play games going all the way back to the OG Xbox, Microsoft will be much less likely to shut down the store.
PS3 games cannot be played on PS4 or PS5, thus you must have a PS3 to play them. PS3s are old and no one plays them anymore therefore they don't matter, at least to Sony. But the Xbox is playing games going back to 2001? There may be no OG Xboxes still running out there, but the games for it can play on the latest (and even across generations - an OG Xbox game running on an OG Xbox can still LAN play with an Xbox360 with the same game alongside an Xbox One and Xbox Series all running the same game on the same LAN, so one game on 4 generations of hardware can still LAN play.
Sony wants to promote their Playstation Now service, but it doesn't handle games you already own.
And with Xbox Game Pass offering up OG Xbox games to download and play too, Microsoft certainly doesn't seem to be wanting to kill the OG Xbox or Xbox360 stores anytime soon.
In other words, competition made Sony look very bad, and these are still the early days of PS5 and Xbox Series consoles. With PS5s still locked up by scalpers, things like this can easily sway a public fed up with not getting a unit (and knowing PS5 releases will cause supplies to tighten even more) to the competition. Especially since you can find the Xbox Series X and S in stores now - I've seen a few at my local Walmart. And this is affecting developers - they see PS5s go to scalpers which they see as someone who isn't buying their game, so why invest in developing for the PS5 right now? If they can, develop "for the other guys" first and then port it to PS5 when there are more consoles in the hands of players.
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FTFY. The pay-to-rent issue isn't unique to Sony PSN. Microsoft, Steam and everybody that uses DRM (i.e.: except GoG) means the product you "buy" will only work so long as they allow it to. When they shut down their servers, or go out of business, you're screwed.
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In other words, competition made Sony look very bad, and these are still the early days of PS5 and Xbox Series consoles.
It is Sony, though. They'll probably screw up the credit-card processing, or forget to renew the domain, or the SSL cert. Maybe they'll screw up search, or make the download button redirect to the logout page. What can you do? Market pushback can't fix incompetence.
I've got a PS3 and a PS4, and I find the ability of Sony to go from weakness to weakness astounding. They have billions of dollars, it can't be THAT hard not to repeatedly own-goal yourself.
[Apologies to Sony engineers over there. Just so y
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>PS3s are old and no one plays them anymore therefore they don't matter, at least to Sony.
But the PS Vita is still a fine, fine thing.
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Sony lost interest in the Vita after the PS4 took off. They just forgot all about its existence and basically stopped caring about it. They stopped making it years ago and as far as Sony was concerned, the PS4 was number one because the Vita, well, it's not selling like the PS4 was.
I still remember the Sony aisles in the store - it would be packed full of PS4 games and PS4 accessories, and then there was the lonely rack of Vita stuff. With maybe 1 Vita game on the
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Indeed Sony did lose interest. The device however remains good. Nice screen, good graphics, nice controls, nice hand feel.
Every now and then I will pull it out to Touch my Katamari.