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The PS3 and Vita are being buried alive

by royka118 on 10/22/20, 7:48 AM with 9 comments

• by imtringued on 10/22/20, 10:04 AM

  So this is what's going to happen when Steam dies. Your stuff is just gone.

• by phendrenad2 on 10/22/20, 8:20 AM

  This is a shame - there are a lot of great "old" games for PS3 and PS Vita, which were never ported to modern consoles.

  This is the new normal on consoles. The Nintendo 3DS will face the same issue soon - once Nintendo pulls the plug on the 3DS online shop, many games will cease to exist, since they were never released on physical media.

  Piracy is a solution, but it's sketchy, hit-and-miss, and is kinda against my morals.

  This is why I love Nightdive Studios, which is reviving some old games.

• by masukomi on 10/22/20, 12:09 PM

  i don't get why everyone's complaining about this. No-one was like "OMG they stopped making super nintendo games." or "OMG no more sega genesis games" when those platforms were end of lifed.

  This is the same thing. Your existing games continue to work. You existing console continues to work. You're just not going to get an endless supply of new stuff for it.

  I agree the lack of disk based games kills the ability to share and resell but that's a separate issue, and i'd like to think that we can all agree at this point that physical media is "a dead man walking" regardless of how we feel about that.