PlayStation Store offline on PS3, PSP and PS Vita? Sony stops some features

As we reported in our previous news, it seems that Sony intends to permanently take the PlayStation Stores of PlayStation 3, PS Vita e PSP. This rumor, however, has not been confirmed by Sony itself, although it appears that an announcement officer can arrive by the end of the month. Does the PlayStation Store then close?

In detail, the stores dedicated to PSP and PlayStation 3 they should be closed next 2 Julywhile that PS Vita it should remain open until the next 27th August. If this proves to be true, starting from these dates it will no longer be possible to make purchases from the digital stores of the aforementioned consoles, whether they are games, DLCs, demos or any other content present.

A user on Twitter, connecting to this news, reports that an alternative method to download games from the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable stores has gone offline. This could be a sign that Sony is serious about closing the stores of the old generation consoles, leaving only those of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 active.

Man ..

There was a workaround to find the old PSN store to get PS3, Vita, and PSP games on a browser. It now seems like that no longer works.

Impressed with how cop-like of a move this is. pic.twitter.com/ETIPNSmc32

- Jurge Cruz-Alvarez (@ jcruzalvarez26) March 28, 2021

There was a workaround to find the old PSN store to get PS3, Vita, and PSP games on a browser. Now it seems that it doesn't work anymore.

PlayStation 3 was launched in 2006 and to date it has recorded sales for a total of 87 million units worldwide. Production of the console officially ended in 2016 in Europe and the USA and in 2017 in Japan. PSP has sold approx 81 million units since its debut, which took place in 2004 in Japan and in 2005 in the rest of the world, before being discontinued in 2014. PS Vita, unlike its predecessors, could not repeat the same success by placing only 15 million units around the world, before being decommissioned in 2019.