Sony plans to close down the PS3 and Vita shops and introduced it in March of this yr. The firm additionally needed to take away the power to buy video games for the PSP (PlayStation Portable, Sony’s handheld console Back within the Day). However, after receiving widespread response to the choice, the corporate determined to maintain the PS3 and Vita shops open.
However, the ‘PSP Commerce performance’ was nonetheless scheduled to finish on July 2. Sony has now introduced what precisely this implies. Users will nonetheless be capable to buy video games for the Sony PSP from the PS3 and Vita shops, however will be unable to buy the brand new DLC (downloadable content material), in keeping with Sony’s US and UK help pages.
The skill to search out and obtain DLC for the PSP ends on July 6. Sony has supplied some extra particulars within the help pages.
Sony discontinued the PSP in 2014, however the handheld console stays a large international fan base. (Image Source: The Indian Express/Anuj Bhatia)
You Can Still Download PSP Content You Purchased Previously
Anything you beforehand bought for the Sony PSP will nonetheless be out there for obtain. You can get your content material from the obtain record on the machine.
In addition, customers may also buy content material for the PSP that’s out there on the PS3 and Vita shops, even when they have not earlier than. However, customers will be unable to buy PSP content material from the in-game retailer.
Is Sony dropping brownie factors towards rival Microsoft?
Microsoft’s Xbox consoles have backwards compatibility as one among their main promoting factors. In distinction, taking part in older video games on the brand new Sony console is not very simple. Take PlayStation 5 for instance, the place if you wish to play older video games from the PS4, the one choices you’ve gotten are both shopping for full-price remakes or getting a PlayStation Now subscription that permits you to stream older video games from the cloud. Allows you to play.
Coming again to the PSP, you fortunately nonetheless have the choice to purchase video games from the PS3 and Vita shops, at the very least for now.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
