Sony killing online features for GT5 and Resistance 1-3 in March and May

[mornelithe]

Darc Requiem said:

mornelithe said:

Darc Requiem said:

Shutting down GT5's online seems vindictive to be honest. Isn't GT6 failing to meet sales expectations?

For a financially struggling company, it's not exactly unexpected.  Of course, we could also blame ourselves for accepting and buying into a generation of games that removed features that allowed games to have longer legs (Server controls, for example), can't really turn around and cry foul when we've done nothing this generation but encourage companies to work this way.

Resistance 1 has been up since 2006....GT5 came out in 2010

Yeah and?  The PS4 came out 2 months ago.  It's entirely possible that it's simply too expensive for them to keep the Ps3's server's running across all the games they have currently, while maintaining/evolving the new PSN for the PS4.  And, I'm not sure about you, but there are numerous games I've played 3 years+ after release.  Thankfully, all of those games have stand alone/local server, so I don't have to deal with any of this bullshit.  It sucks for people who MP on console, but I've never been a fan of it.  Which makes this announcement fairly inconsequential to me for those games, but it's certainly a result of this generations business practices...that many many many people just bought into without thinking about the repercussions.