PS3 and PS Vita stores no longer closing

[Conina]

DonFerrari said:

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.

Sony has no direct benefit by stopping to sell digital PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP and Vita games when they still have to offer all these games for redownloads.

They are not saving any space on their servers (because the PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP and Vita data can't be deleted yet) and the whole shop and payment infrastructure has to be kept anyways for buying PS4 and PS5 games.

If they don't want to offer the access to the PS-Store from the PS3-device or Vita-device anymore, they could still offer the PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP and Vita games by accessing them via PS4-store, PS5 store and webbrowser store.

The PS Store wouldn't get more confusing by keeping these legacy games... just put them in a different part of the store:

Search results would begin with PS5 games, followed by PS4 games and then by the legacy games.

The filter preset of the search could exclude legacy by default (with the option to show them).

The only benefit I see for Sony by ditching the legacy games: less competition for the newer games.

And that indirect benefit is not good enough IMHO.