PS3 and PS Vita stores no longer closing

[Cerebralbore101]

Conina said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

Nobody should care about devs not being warned about the Vita store closing. It's a failed handheld that was supported for nearly ten years. Anybody still developing for it was asking for financial ruin either way. It's not like they were going to sell a ton of copies of their game on Vita. Might as well complain about people who make bonfires with their own money getting robbed.

There were still over 50 Vita releases last year and a few releases this year:

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/available/vita/date?view=condensed

But I agree, a warning to all registered Vita-developers would probably have hurt more than helped.

The closing of the store front would have leaked months ago from one of these developers... without the context that redownloads of bought content or PS+ content will still be possible.

That would have lead to wild speculations and fearmongering: "all your digital content will go away in a few months!"

What about 3DS games for comparison? How long did original DS games get released for? It would be really interesting to see what kind of releases systems get in their twilight years for comparison's sake. But yeah, I agree. Had they told devs, a dev would have leaked it without context. I suppose Sony could have made a big press release about the Vita store closing a year prior to it actually closing. But I'm sure there'd still be some devs out there complaining that a year's warning time isn't long enough.

Damned if you do. Damned if you don't. Meanwhile internet pundits make a big deal out of it, because they thrive on controversy.