PS3 & PSVita digital stores closing altogether

[Asura]

According to that Gematsu link, this is everything that remains exclusive to PS3 PSN, i.e. only digital and not available elsehere. Actually not that great a list, and some of those are wrong; like they might be technically right but some of these games showed up in collections on other machines, and then there are those like Battle Fantasia that did get a physical release here in the UK:

• 4 Elements HD (Boolot Games)
• 5 Star Wrestling (Serious Parody)
• Absolute Supercars (Eutechnyx)
• Ace Combat Infinity (Bandai Namco)
• Alien Zombie Mega Death (PomPom Games)
• Anarchy: Rush Hour (Gaijin Games)
• Aqua Panic (Neko Entertainment)
• Aquatopia (SIE)
• Arcana Heart 3 (Aksys Games)
• Astro Tripper (PomPom Games)
• Auditorium HD (Zoo Games)
• Battle Princess of Arcadias (NIS America)
• Bomberman Ultra (Hudson)
• Battle Fantasia (Aksys Games)
• Battle Tanks (Gameloft)
• Beer Pong (JVGames)
• Blast Factor (SIE)
• Blokus (Gameloft)
• Blue Toad Murder Files (Relentless Software)
• Burnout Paradise (EA Games)
• Burn, Zombie, Burn! (Kuju Entertainment)
• BUZZ! Junior: RoboJam (SIE)
• BUZZ! Junior: Monster Rally (SIE)
• BUZZ! Quiz Player (SIE)
• Calling All Cars! (SIE)
• Cash Guns Chaos (SOE)
• Chaos Code (Arc System Works)
• Chime Super Deluxe (Kuju Entertainment)
• Closure (Eyebrow Interactive)
• Comet Crash (Pelfat)
• Crash Commando (SIE)
• Critter Crunch (Capybara Games)
• Cuboid (Creat Studios)
• .detuned (theprodukkt)
• Digger (Creat Studios)
• Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD (Vogster Entertainment)
• Do Not Fall: Run for Your Drink (XPEC Entertainment)
• Dungeon Twister (Hydravision Entertainment)
• Dyad (][ Games)
• Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires (Koei Tecmo)
• Eat Them! (SIE)
• echochrome ii (SIE)
• Elefunk (SIE)
• Elemental Monster Online Card Game (Hudson)
• Elevator Action Deluxe (Square Enix)
• EyeCreate (SIE)
• Fast Draw Showdown (Digital Leisure)
• Fatal Inertia EX (KOEI)
• Fat Princess (SIE)
• Funky Lab Rat (Hydravision Entertainment)
• Go! Puzzle (SIE)
• Go! Sports Ski (SIE)
• Go! Sports Skydiving (SIE)
• Go! Sudoku (SIE)
• Gravity Crash (SIE)
• Groovin' Blocks (SOE)
• GTi Club + (Konami)
• Hamsterball (TikGames)
• High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition (SIE)
• High Velocity Bowling (SIE)
• Hoard (Big Sandwich Games)
• Ibb & Obb (Sparpweed)
• [Import] Imas Channel (Bandai Namco)
• inFAMOUS 2: Festival of Blood (SIE)
• Ion Assault HD (Coreplay)
• Killzone HD (SIE)
• Kung Fu LIVE (Virtual Air Guitar Company)
• Labyrinth Legends (Creat Studios)
• The Last Guy (SIE)
• Learning With The PooYoos (Lexis Numerique)
• Legasista (NIS America)
• Lemmings (SIE)
• Linger In Shadows (SIE)
• LocoRoco Cocoreecho! (SIE)
• LUMINES Supernova (Q Entertainment)
• Magic Orbz (Creat Studios)
• Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom (Creat Studios)
• Malicious (Alvion)
• Mamorukun Curse! (UFO Interactive)
• Max & The Magic Marker - Gold Edition (Press Play)
• Mesmerize (SIE)
• Mesmerize: Distort (SIE)
• Mesmerize: Trace (SIE)
• Modern Combat: Domination (Gameloft)
• Motorstorm 3D Rift (SIE)
• Mushroom Wars (Creat Studios)
• Namco Museum Essentials (Bandai Namco)
• Noby Noby Boy (Bandai Namco)
• NOVASTIRKE (Tiki Games)
• Nucleus (SIE)
• Numblast (SIE)
• Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD (Just Add Water)
• Okabu (HandCircus)
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors (Bandai Namco)
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (Bandai Namco)
• Operation Creature Feature (SIE)
• Page Chronica (Red Hare Studios)
• PAIN (SIE)
• Pinballistik (Creat Studios)
• PixelJunk 4am (Q-Games)
• PixelJunk Racers (Q-Games)
• PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap (Q-Games)
• PixelJunk Sidescroller (Q-Games)
• Planet MiniGolf (ZEN Studios)
• Piyotama (SIE)
• Press Your Luck (Ludia)
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time HD (Ubisoft)
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within HD (Ubisoft)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones HD (Ubisoft)
• Psych Yourself (Creat Studios)
• The Punisher: No Mercy (Zen Studios)
• Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic (SIE)
• Rain (SIE)
• Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day (Bandai Namco)
• Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty (SIE)
• Red Baron Arcade (Sierra)
• Red Johnson's Chronicles (Lexis Numerique)
• Resident Evil Chronicles: HD Collection (Capcom)
• Retro/Grade (24 Carat Games)
• Revenge of the Wounded Dragons (SOE)
• Ricochet HD (TikGames)
• River City Super Sports Challenge: All Stars Special (Arc System Works)
• Rochard (SOE)
• Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves (SIE)
• Saint Seiya: Brave Soldiers (Bandai Namco)
• Savage Moon (SIE)
• Section 8 (TimeGate)
• Shatter (SIE)
• Sideway: New York (SOE)
• SIREN: Blood Curse (SIE)
• Sky Fighter (Creat Studios)
• SlamBolt Scrappers (SOE)
• Smash Cars (Creat Studios)
• Snakeball (SIE)
• SOCOM: Confrontation (SIE)
• Soldner-X 2: Final Prototype (Eastasiasoft)
• Soulcalibur: Lost Swords (Bandai Namco)
• Spelunker HD (Tozai)
• Stick Man Rescue (TikGames)
• Strength of the Sword 3 (Ivent Games)
• Super Rub-a-Dub (SIE)
• Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (Psyonix)
• Super Stacker (inXile Entertainment)
• Super Stardust HD (SIE)
• Tales from Space: About a Blob (DrinkBox Studios)
• Tekken Revolution (Bandai Namco)
• TerRover (Creat Studios)
• Test Yourself: Psychology (Creat Stuios)
• Tetris (EA)
• Thexder Neo (Square Enix)
• Time Machine: Rogue Pilot (Lesta Co.)
• Tokyo Jungle (SIE)
• Topatoi (Boolat)
• Tori-Emaki (SIE)
• Toy Home (SIE)
• Trash Panic (SIE)
• Trials of Topoq (SIE)
• Under Siege (Seed Studios)
• [Import] Vividred Operation: Hyper Intimate Power (Bandai Namco)
• Wakeboarding HD (Creat Studios)
• Warhawk (SIE)
• Way of the Samurai 4 (XSEED Games)
• Wheels of Destruction (Gelio Games)
• Wicked Monster Blast! HD (Corcell)
• WipEout HD (SIE)
• [Import] Wizardry: Torawareshi Bourei no Machi (Acquire)
• Zack Zero (Crocodile Entertainment )
• ZEN Pinball (Zen Studios)

[briareos_kerensky]

Nice red highlight there

[speedlolita]

I thought this reddit post was helpful when buying a few bits recently.

[Asura]

Bizarre. It's a direct copy paste.

[Sketcz]

I thought this reddit post was helpful when buying a few bits recently.

Thanks for the link, but by the gods that is a confusing mess of a thread!

Good retail games, not good retail games, good exclusive retail games, not good exclusive non-retail games, good non-exclusive non-retail games with non-good reviews, and about a thousand more sub-of-a-sub-subtitles. I managed to get 23% of the way through before my brain shut down.

Something I've not seen anyone mention is Battle princess of Arcadias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H24d4L2HeQ

PSN exclusive seemingly, not on disc, not at retail, not on other systems, only PS3 PSN, and looks like a cros between Odin Sphere and Dragon Force on the Saturn.

Anyone actually play it? It's £25 to buy.

[speedlolita]

I pretty much only looked at "well-received retail PS3 exclusives that haven't been remastered for PS4" to be fair.

[Asura]

Thanks for the link, but by the gods that is a confusing mess of a thread!

Good retail games, not good retail games, good exclusive retail games, not good exclusive non-retail games, good non-exclusive non-retail games with non-good reviews, and about a thousand more sub-of-a-sub-subtitles. I managed to get 23% of the way through before my brain shut down.

Something I've not seen anyone mention is Battle princess of Arcadias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H24d4L2HeQ

PSN exclusive seemingly, not on disc, not at retail, not on other systems, only PS3 PSN, and looks like a cros between Odin Sphere and Dragon Force on the Saturn.

Anyone actually play it? It's £25 to buy.

Was that ever released in the UK? I searched on the UK store and no dice.

[briareos_kerensky]

Something I've not seen anyone mention is Battle princess of Arcadias.

It's not bad.

Was that ever released in the UK? I searched on the UK store and no dice.

it was released digital only in both Europe and America. Maybe delisted?

[Sketcz]

It's not bad.

Brewers_Krunchy did a vid! Thanks!

I bought some stuff yesterday, but cannot download anything.

Is anyone else having problems downloading from PSN?

I got the error code 80029509. I can access the store, I can buy stuff, but nothing can be downloaded. Not even my older stuff from way back when.



EDIT:

Turns out this problem is rampant across the world. Japan, English speaking countries, everyone on Twitter is complaining. You can buy stuff but not download. And allegedly Sony support refuses to deal with it, because they're exclusively supporting PS4 and PS5 now. Can anyone verify this?

[Asura]

Turns out this problem is rampant across the world. Japan, English speaking countries, everyone on Twitter is complaining. You can buy stuff but not download. And allegedly Sony support refuses to deal with it, because they're exclusively supporting PS4 and PS5 now. Can anyone verify this?

I'm not surprised though; the bandwidth of the PS3 store has always been poor; we joked about this years ago.

It's probably just that everyone is piling into the store, and it'll get better in a couple of days.

[wakka]

Probably they have been steadily reducing the bandwidth of the store for years as its popularity has diminished, and demand has suddenly leapt 10,000 fold in the last couple of days, immediately overloading it. Agreed with Asura, they'll get it sorted I'm sure.

They should've anticipated it really.

[Asura]

Probably they have been steadily reducing the bandwidth of the store for years as its popularity has diminished, and demand has suddenly leapt 10,000 fold in the last couple of days, immediately overloading it. Agreed with Asura, they'll get it sorted I'm sure.

They should've anticipated it really.

I'm really curious to know (though we never will) about the figures for this.

Sony's only reason to close the store is because its revenue is lower than its maintenance cost (which, given, gets more expensive as time goes on due to security). It's not like closing the PS3 store sells more PS5s, so it isn't really a strategic decision.

I freely admit, I have bought PS3 games on the store in the last 24 months but only a couple. I have to assume the revenue is so low that it's just not worth it for them.

[wakka]

The discs for PS3 are so, so cheap at this point, that I can imagine that the bulk of people still using the machine regularly will be picking up boxed copies of stuff for a couple of quid a pop on the used market.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

I can imagine that the bulk of people still using the machine regularly will be picking up boxed copies of stuff for a couple of quid a pop on the used market.

And then influencers will make videos and PS3 games will rocket in price like Vita stuff did last year.

[Asura]

And then influencers will make videos and PS3 games will rocket in price like Vita stuff did last year.

METAL JESUS VIDEO INCOMING