Snaggletooth Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 As well as games I wonder how long game patches will be available to download? I have been updating all my titles on my PS3 so they are up to date. How many titles will be left broken and unplayable when this service eventually stops? Yes its inevitable, but a depressing thought aabout modern games, especially when PS4 Gen rolls around to being discontinued some years down the line, our acceptance of supporting games companies who continue to publishunfinnished games will leave so many of these games Dead in Years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Schrier's of the view it will be perma gone Maybe there will be a backlash here and Sony will relent. Good thing then that emulation is maturing and digital preservation by amateurs is a thing. You could call that preservation by a different p word but if Sony aren't keeping the games available in the form people paid for then might as well do it the other way This is why phone home DRM sucks as well cause activiation servers for that stuff get shut down. Doom Eternal has a thing on PC where you must connect it to the internet at least every few months for it to be certified legit. I noticed it cause I had a firewall setting to stop it asking me to create accounts to play it, but on startup there is a earlier check. The account one is trivial and not a big deal but the first check is one of those things where if we end up in a fully digital future (which we will) then this side of things has to be handled better cause some of us like revisiting stuff years later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 i was hoping they'd leave stuff up for download for a while after they shut the store, oh well. guess i'm downloading as many vita/psp/ps3 games as i can. i did this semi-recently when they shut the wii stuff down, the wii at least uses sd cards which helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 yeah, I need to pick up an external HDD for the PS3 stuff. Not that I'll likely play any of it again but better than just never being able to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Yeah I was in Japan at the time so got burned by the Wii store being taken offline. I didn’t have a mountain of games but I had four or five. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 1 hour ago, radiofloyd said: Yeah I was in Japan at the time so got burned by the Wii store being taken offline. I didn’t have a mountain of games but I had four or five. i read on another forum that you can still download your old stuff on the wii even though they said they were shutting it down, so if you get chance, give it a try i guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Oh that’s good to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 hmm, I'm slightly dubious about this. If it is real hopefully Sony patch it out as the PS4 winds down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 ^ apparently it's a thing on the ps3 too (maybe just stops digital games working on ps3?), if so i guess we'll find out sooner if they sort it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manicm Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Someone is going to be very annoyed in 10 years time!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 What a cunts trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 6 hours ago, spatular said: ^ apparently it's a thing on the ps3 too (maybe just stops digital games working on ps3?), if so i guess we'll find out sooner if they sort it. I could believe it with digital, particularly on the PS3, but it seems less sensible for it to block physical games. The discs have the DRM on, and the PS4 spins up to check the discs even if they're installed to the HDD, I don't see why you'd make them dependant on a clock. PS4 is less of an issue I suppose because it all works on PS5, but it might be worth opening up the PS3 to see if you can replace the battery at some point 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manicm Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 If anyone pre-ordered with base or shopto and you got the invite to buy email you have today close to buy your console, got 2 on the way, not for me been trying to get them for a couple of mates that have struggled to secure one and I had outstanding pre-orders I didn’t cancel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Yea as long as the stuff can be downloaded that's fine. I guess one thing I'll say is stay away from those Digital Devil Saga ports on PS3 PSN, they are really badly emulated and have slowdown/sound sync issues Not that people are likely to buy them but it just shocked me that the would sell broken emulated games on the story like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I haven't looked for the tweet, but it looks like the PS+ games for this month are Days Gone (PS4) Zombie Army 4: Dead War (PS4) Oddworld: Soulstorm (PS5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Seeing as DG is included with the PS + collection I doubt that's included. The others are feasible though. I've not seen anything (even rumours). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyKurosaki Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 It’s been confirmed. A good month really. I need to go back to Days Gone at some point. Zombie Army is brilliant, I eventually managed the Platinum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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one-armed dwarf Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I think Sony are trying to keep the appearance of being like a video game version of HBO or something. Days Gone II seems like a sure fire sales success even with the middling reception for the first one, the player critic divide there is fairly strong so the only explanation is they want Naughty Dog games to be like this prestige shit. Right now I've no real interest in most of the first party stuff from all three companies, even BOTW II on Nintendo isn't exciting me (particularly cause we haven't even seen that thing yet). MS seem to just do the same thing over and over, Sony are over here making movie games, Nintendo are Nintendo. It's all about the third party for me. Tho MS are pretty aggressive with their acquisitions so they could turn a really interesting corner at some point, especially if they work with Kojima. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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