This is great news for smaller devs as well. Great call PlayStation. As an fan of PlayStation since Now just leverage your legacy consoles to make your PS5 an even more attractive offering than it already is. You could make it a console with the BEST game library available if you put in the work. Faenix1 — Also the PSP store has already been closed since , no one was in an uproar about it since PSP games could still be purchased and downloaded to the system. You need to add backwards compatibility to the PS5.
Surely a team of talented coders could get something running on your very powerful machine. Jim Ryan should also apologize to all the hard working legacy developers he insulted when he claimed their games looked terrible. Truly a shameful statement. Yeah to absolutely kill off the PS3.
Do your own research because if you did you would know that its not possible. They said they will keep the store and you immediately ask for more…. I see no issue with asking Sony to improve their backwards compatibility to match what Microsoft are already doing. If Sony want to remain competitive and avoid losing first place this generation, like with the PS3 in the 7th generation then they need to avoid becoming complacent.
Emulating the PS3 is difficult, not impossible. Fans have been making good progress emulating it on PC with only reverse engineering. Sony could make a much better emulator much faster using all the internal knowledge and documentation they must have regarding the PS3. The issue was the CPU so that solved that. The problem would be the cost to develop it and the time. Even if it worked the drive wouldnt be able to read physical discs so then they would have to make those game available digitally.
So possible…but not practical. Thank you for the reconsideration and for listening to us! I do wish you could keep this up by always listening to our feedbacks and continue to never let us down!
Although it is still inevitable for the PS store to eventually shut down in the distant future, I still agree with the community that we should have all old games carried over to the newer consoles.
Games are timeless and should never dissappear! Finally this Jim does anything, he has been a zero as president, only sad news on my dear Sony :. We use cookies to personalise your experience and ads on this website and other websites. For more information, visit our Cookie information opens in a new window page. Skip to content Skip to cookie notice.
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Comments are closed. Newer comments. Thank you, Jim! I suspect this is Jim being forced to backtrack. Thank you Jim so very much. I was already buying games early January when the website store front was closing. Which I will eventually but this buys me some time to figure everything out with my budget.
Thank You so very much. For what? For lying to his customers? Or for putting his mlb game on gamepass? Or for cut funding japan studio And abandon Japanese games?
Yeah, fast im going to agree with you in that, abandoning Japense games and JPN studio is awful. Oh The real ghost. Chomza85 April 19, at pm PDT. Bye… not thank you. We won, Mr. Just make a Legend of Dragoon Remake already. Because they make great games that fit the Japanese taste and the globe. There are ways to recompile games to make them compatible without using an emulator.
An emulator can also be used, there are some on PC that do work. Look why you said the psp is closing on july 2 and we have to keep purushing. Totally agree. Cormasco April 19, at am PDT.
Well said. Is that still planned to get closed? They only have access to their content and it would open the store up for more Indy publishers. Just something to think about. Exactly what I have on my mind. Domino April 19, at am PDT. Could not agree more. Would be awesome. Devenish April 19, at am PDT. Agree with this so much. Yes agreed. Spacerac April 20, at am PDT.
This would win the gen for Sony. IK, it would make me think and my fellow xbox friends win over PS because of that. Why would you buy a new console to play old games? Just buy an old console! Thank you so much! Steelycoast April 19, at am PDT. JIM you finally listen to the community so thank you for listening. D April 19, at am PDT. Thanks for listening!
This is the right choice for all! PlayStation and their fans. Please enable sales for those platform, especially for PSP that will be closing soon.
Great decision. Also this is great for indie developers who were working on new Vita games. Maybe have some sales every now and then? Glaricion April 19, at pm PDT. With the flow of new games on older consoles slowing to a few last drops, most avid gamers will be facing the question that arises once or twice a decade: Should you keep that old console? The first question you should really ask yourself is how well your console is working.
If your machine's got a shoddy disc tray or other reliability issues, just get rid of it any way you can. By comparison, the Xbox had a failure rate of around 50 percent its first two years of production and only recently caught up to the PS3 in terms of reliability. But if you've got a good working PlayStation 3 or Xbox , you might want to hang on to it.
Collectors generally recommend you dedicate your limited storage space to games rather than hardware. Keep what you enjoyed playing and get rid of the games you didn't," Brun says. If you do have them on display, make sure they're not in a place where direct sunlight can hit them, because it will discolor them.
If you're not interested in storing your old machine and games, and selling them sounds like too much trouble for too little reward, you might want to consider donating them to a nonprofit like The Get-Well Gamers Foundation, which finds a new home for old consoles at children's hospitals across the country. While the vast majority of Xbox game releases will be destined for the Xbox One at this point, a few final Xbox titles will be rolling off the line as well. And they'll probably all be sports games.
Around , the last Xbox games on disc, at least will similarly make their unheralded appearance, and within a year or so, sales of the console will be officially discontinued. If you've decided to hang on to your old console or want to work on building a serious game collection, now's the time to go bargain hunting. Games from the consoles' peak years will be a steal. This is a good time to buy games, because they are still readily available and cheap. Speaking of plummeting prices and towering piles of unwanted games, is very likely the year that GameStop will announce a dramatic restructuring of its business model, essentially ending the brick-and-mortar game retailer concept that began as Babbage's in While the demise of GameStop, slated to close hundreds of locations in , has been predicted for years as digital downloads and mobile gaming gained in popularity, the launch of a new console generation will help the retailer post reasonably strong earnings in and into The chain's core revenue streams, which remained consistent from , have been from new games 40 percent of net sales , used games 27 percent and new hardware 15 percent.
New consoles will mean strong sales in each of these three areas, and GameStop investors will hope for a profit boom like the one seen in as the current-gen consoles hit their prime.
By , it will become clear that strong next-gen sales are masking deep, inevitable shifts that have been eroding GameStop's core business. Hardware sales will remain brisk, but owners of newer consoles will be buying games digitally with increasing frequency. As fewer new releases are bought on disc, fewer will hit the market used, robbing GameStop of its highly profitable "used new game" selection.
The resale value of remaining titles for , PS3 and Wii will be in free fall, leaving GameStop with high amounts of inventory and low profit margins. The online store, already a financial bright spot for the chain in , will continue to offer downloadable PC games in competition with Steam , but it could also become an e-commerce hub for buying and selling used games in competition with Amazon's Trade-In Store.
Sony's consoles have a proven track record of spawning new games long after newer hardware has hit the market. The last original PlayStation games were published in , four years after the launch of the PlayStation 2.
Splitting the difference, we can guess the last PlayStation 3 games will land five or six years after the PS4 launch in And that they'll probably involve soccer or JRPGs. Around this time, sales of the PS3 will finally be discontinued. Microsoft will announce that it is discontinuing support of Xbox Live for the , a decision that won't sit well with gamers still using the service for classic multiplayer titles like the Call of Duty, Halo and Forza franchises.
As in , when Xbox Live support was discontinued for the original Xbox five years after its successor's launch, Microsoft will give fans an early warning about the service's demise. Auto-renewals for only users will be canceled, and Microsoft will also offer some generous perks for Xbox One ownership to those still using a Just as in , we'll likely see protests from a vocal minority of gamers who want to continue milking their enjoyment out of the With the retirement of the first console's Xbox Live, a group of avid Halo 2 fans refused to exit the game, holding up the network's shutdown for nearly a month.
Similar holdouts are to be expected whenever the 's Xbox Live service is terminated, but this time Microsoft will be better prepared to hit the kill switch on the date of its own choosing.
Sony will likely discontinue PlayStation Network support for the PlayStation 3, ending the brand's year inaugural experiment with fully networked gaming. By this point, the PS4 itself will be a lion in winter, having celebrated its seventh birthday. The "ninth generation" of gaming consoles will officially be upon us, ushered in over several years by new replacements for the Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U, along with some new challenger devices.
As for those old standbys, the , PS3 and Wii, they'll have drifted almost completely into cultural retirement. The average price of games for the , PS3 and Wii will have hit rock bottom, where the games will stay for nearly a decade before starting to regain value. In his analysis of three decades of video game price data, JJ Hendricks describes this period years after a game's debut as a time of stabilization:.
Another console generation, or two, has come after the game was released and no retail stores carry the games or consoles anymore. Even used game shops like GameStop have stopped selling these titles.
The best example of a console that's in a similar state in would probably be the Nintendo 64, which hasn't quite achieved the retro popularity of its predecessor, the Super NES, or the ready playability of its successor, the GameCube.
Many a Wii, and PS3 will be unearthed from basements or storage units as the consoles enter a lifecycle phase Hendricks calls "the pre-collectible" period. These are the years of blooming nostalgia, when young professionals who grew up with this generation of machines decide to relive their youth a bit. PlayStation fans will still be able to download games and content they have already purchased for the foreseeable future though, thankfully.
The following is a list of the best games available exclusively on the PlayStation Store that PlayStation fans should be sure to consider purchasing before they are no longer available. As a note, some truly incredible and award-winning games were released as digital only-exclusives to the PS3, like J ourney , Flower , Sound Shapes , and The Unfinished Swan, but those games have since been ported to the PS4. Some of the below games also have technically had a physical release in the Best of PlayStation Network Vol.
Unfortunately, some great PS3 digital-only games have already been delisted in years past, but are still playable for those who purchased them previously.
The game was delisted from the store in , but long-time PlayStation Plus subscribers may have been in luck, as Fat Princess was free for the month of July in Those looking for fun couch co-op may want to see if they have this game in their library.
The game is reminiscent of a top-down Twisted Metal , except in this game players are bounty hunters competing against one another to see who can capture the most criminals and return them to places like police stations or paddy wagons for points. The cel-shaded art style still holds up in , but the online component, sadly, does not.
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