PS3 and PS Vita stores no longer closing

[Mandalore76]

DonFerrari said:

Mandalore76 said:

So you support selling devkits to an indie studio a month before announcing the storefront is closing without bothering to tell the developer while taking their money?  

Companies take your money for products even if they intend to discontinue it next week. So nothing new here to say the truth. Was there any promise of keeping anything with the sale?

Conina said:

Better (but still bad) comparison would be:

All movies in the blockbusters and other movie rental stores are still available in these stores, so the running costs for all these stores still have to be paid.

But there is no revenue for these movies anymore. These movies are just replacements for customers who bought these movies before or still have a running subscription.

Not sure what your comparison was supposed to be. But the point is that discontinued products won`t be around anymore. People complaining hardly were really sustaining that business anymore.

I would expect a developer to be treated a bit less sleazily than the average consumer by a platform holder.  Selling a consumer a bottle of Crystal Pepsi a week before the beverage is discontinued has no effect on the consumer, because they can still drink the Crystal Pepsi that they paid for.  Selling an indie studio a dev kit for a platform that won't have a storefront in a month is a slimy business tactic, because the developer no longer has a storefront to release their game onto which was the whole purpose of purchasing the devkit in the first place.