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elnino334 on 07 April 2008

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=130748

Sony America is pulling the online server plug on some of its old PS2 and PSP games.

Support for around a dozen titles will end on 30th June, according to dbTechno.

The better known titles are Lemmings on PS2 and PSP, plus Everybody's Golf and Jak X on PS2.

Sony Europe was unavailable for comment.

The full list of games losing online support is below.

PS2 Games

  • Amplitude
  • Destruction Derby Arenas
  • Everybody's Golf
  • EyeToy Chat
  • F1 '04
  • Jak X
  • Lemmings PS2
  • My Street
  • Syphon Filter Omega Strain
  • This is Football 2004
  • This is Football 2005
  • Twisted Metal: Black Online

PSP Games

  • Lemmings
  • World Tour Soccer 2


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libellule on 07 April 2008

Ohhh

I thought they wanted to shutdown ALL their PSP/PS2 server and that sounded very bad to me.

I assume some people use their PS2 to play online (FFXI, MGS3)



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hunter_alien on 07 April 2008

Sorry ... I know Im rude , but this is old ... ~ 3 days old ( wich means ~ 3 years on the internet ) :P ( jk ) .



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PooperScooper on 07 April 2008

So this what they were talking about by saying "focusing PS2 owners to upgrade to the PS3" I get it now,



Yakuzaice on 07 April 2008
libellule said:
Ohhh

I thought they wanted to shutdown ALL their PSP/PS2 server and that sounded very bad to me.

I assume some people use their PS2 to play online (FFXI, MGS3)

MGS3 servers have been down for a long time now.  But that isn't Sony.



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NintendoMan on 07 April 2008

Well I suppose suuport had to end some time, it was porbaly costing money for sony to support the service which given the (likely) small numbers of people using it just didn't make it worthwhile. Sucks for any online PS2 owners though.



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Onyxmeth on 07 April 2008

I don't agree with them shutting down PSP servers in a time when the system is still very active. Anyone that now buys either Lemmings or World Tour Soccer would expect the advertised online to work, because the PSP is still current. Yet another blunder by Sony rearing it's ugly head.



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SamuelRSmith on 07 April 2008
Onyxmeth said:
I don't agree with them shutting down PSP servers in a time when the system is still very active. Anyone that now buys either Lemmings or World Tour Soccer would expect the advertised online to work, because the PSP is still current. Yet another blunder by Sony rearing it's ugly head.

 I wouldn't really call it a blunder, there's only going to be a handful of people who want to play Lemmings online on their PSP. It looks like Sony didn't shut down any of the popular servers (I'm only guessing this from the fact that neither Ratchet nor Killzone were on the list).



hunter_alien on 08 April 2008
Onyxmeth said:
I don't agree with them shutting down PSP servers in a time when the system is still very active. Anyone that now buys either Lemmings or World Tour Soccer would expect the advertised online to work, because the PSP is still current. Yet another blunder by Sony rearing it's ugly head.

 Funny ... I actually went online with Lemmings ( EU ) a year ago , where the game even had downloadable maps ( Im not shure over the US ) and the servers where empty . Afther my many trials I found 2 guys , from what I can tell playing an arranged game . So no , its not a huge loss ...



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Kyros on 08 April 2008

Doesn't seem to bad. More like shutting down servers that almost nobody uses anymore ('And that's how it should be) in contrast to the EA approach of shutting down servers of games that have their second incremental update (pardon new version) to force users to shell out another 60 bucks for the same game.