Sony will no longer be closing their PS3 Store and PS Vita Store in July, according to an official blog post. They will still pull the plug, however, for the PSP Store.

SONY ADMITS THEY MADE ‘WRONG DECISION' TO CLOSE DOWN PS3, PS VITA STORES

Sony backtracks on their decision to no longer support PSP, PS Vita, and PS3 Stores this July. They also admitted that “upon further reflection,” their decision turns out to be the wrong one. “We see now that many of you are incredibly passionate about being able to continue purchasing classic games on PS3 and PS Vita for the foreseeable future, so I’m glad we were able to find a solution to continue operations,” says Sony Interactive Entertainment President & CEO Jim Ryan.

However, Sony also confirmed that the discontinuation of the PSP Store will still come as scheduled on July 2, 2021.

ISSUES ARISING FROM CLOSED DOWN PLAYSTATION STORES

Days before an official announcement was made, rumors started going around. Sony will discontinue their old PS3 stores, PSP stores, and PS Vita Stores. They would later confirm this late last month, giving a deadline for everyone to adapt to this change. Closing down the stores meant that any games bought digitally from the stores will no longer be available for re-download. It also meant that any games not yet in the library of players will no longer have any purchase options. While this obviously meant that PS3, PSP, and PS Vita games will no longer be available to purchase, this also extended to legacy PS2 and PSOne games that were also offered in these digital stores.

Further criticisms arose when news came out that the PS4 and PS5 have CMOS battery issues. Once your console experiences the issue, you will no longer be able to play games you purchased without being online. This brought up concerns about the long-term reliability of PS4 and PS5. When it comes the time that Sony considers pulling the plug on the servers of these more recent consoles, what then?