PS3 and PS Vita stores no longer closing

[IcaroRibeiro]

Zkuq said:

About games from past gens still being playable, that's why emulation exists. Cloud gaming will solve all those problems near in the future. Always online is truly an annoyance in current days, but it won't be forever let alone in 2040 or 2050

The planned obsolence of hardware is what really make me anxious for cloud gaming just take over. Digital stores being closed are bad, but I agree hardware that stop working is unsolvable without more hardware. The idea behind this is your hardware must stop working ASAP, so you buy more hardware. If you hardware doesn't die, then shut down stores and, if the game has potential buyers, release it as a remaster in the next hardware and repeat. I'm just waiting Sony to release their first collections of PS2 and PS3 games for PS5 lol 

In a cloud world this thing won't happen. All the disposable tech will be somebody else's problem to deal with, for customers it will be as transparent as choose a movie on Netflix

With cloud gaming, what games are available and when will be decided by the publishers. Many less popular games are bound to be missing, some games will be missing due to rights issues (No One Lives Forever famously still has no digital release anywhere), and some games will be missing seemingly for no reason. 

This is the same for any media though 

If publishers don't want to sell their games for whatever reason they will not sell it, and that's their right,  how many japanese games take years to be released in west? We as customers have no power to decide whether a company have to sell their product to us or not, as long I'm not spending my money I don't care, it's them who are losing money, not me 

What cloud is coming to solve is this dreadful scene where the hardware is created to be replaced soon. You buy tons of games and then must pray for your hardware not stop working or pray for the manufacturer release a next gen console to be backwards compatible (and then spend more money buying a console that sometimes you don't even care just for the sake of keeping your library playable) 

Is this scene I'm losing my money buying some disposable piece of plastic that was never created to last in first place, it's the case of smartphones. Granted it's not annoy me quite as much as smartphones because consoles last at least 5 years, but still sad your library software is bonded to be unplayable eventually 

With Cloud as long the services keep going on you can play them. I understand the fear or services being shutdown if the company bankrupt or something alike, but I just don't see it happening. Gaming is the biggest and most prolific entertainment industry, it would need a true catastrophe for all cloud service games stop working 

Also, unlike hardware manufacturers I'm on the side cloud services will be much more competitive, not like our current oligopoly that's alone make my perspective about them being positive