plasmawave
Banned
It is as if some of you people don't even know how to read or deliberately go out of your way to come to the worst possible conclusion.
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Sony ending PSN support for PSP on September 15th
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BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Like that matters at this point.
hodayathink
Member
Even that's not true. You can't buy them on the PSP, but you can still download them (by going to your download list). Literally the only thing they're removing is store access.
Well, hopefully they fix the download list then. Because going through 4 platforms of purchases just to get your PSP stuff off it is insane.
So already owned titles will still be available digitally from the Playstation website, if I'm reading correctly?
This isn't a bandwidth concern, then. This is a move to push PSP owners to buy a Vita or PS4, right? How much effort and server costs are really required to house the PSN master servers for PSP? What other reasoning could be behind this? It's understandable they no longer want to pay employees to maintain an old network that is not widely used, I suppose, but I wonder how much maintenance is really required outside of the occasional reboot or cleanup.
It's a shame. It's a real shame that they can't just throw the servers in a room with the PS4 ones and keep them going. I was a PSP-1000 early adopter and don't use the service anymore, personally - haven't for years. Even so, it's saddening that services like this just go poof and the games that rely on them for netplay become lost to time forever without reverse engineered servers.
Misleading topic title, then.
This isn't a bandwidth concern, then. This is a move to push PSP owners to buy a Vita or PS4, right? How much effort and server costs are really required to house the PSN master servers for PSP? What other reasoning could be behind this? It's understandable they no longer want to pay employees to maintain an old network that is not widely used, I suppose, but I wonder how much maintenance is really required outside of the occasional reboot or cleanup.
It's a shame. It's a real shame that they can't just throw the servers in a room with the PS4 ones and keep them going. I was a PSP-1000 early adopter and don't use the service anymore, personally - haven't for years. Even so, it's saddening that services like this just go poof and the games that rely on them for netplay become lost to time forever without reverse engineered servers.
Misleading topic title, then.
doctorcdcs
Member
so, I still have a copy of Patapon 2 which, instead of a physical UMD, has a digital download code inside the box. I haven't bothered to unwrap the case until now, since I'm still on Patapon 1. Can I redeem the code for the game online and have it attached to my account?
ShinMaruku
Member
Whoever thought digital would keep these games forever is a fool.
That depends, has the code expired?
Ingueferroque
Banned
I'd wager to say, yes. Just redeem it on the online store.
Xenoflare
Member
But sometimes games only offer digital options unless you are willing to import.
doctorcdcs
Member
I dunno i never opened it. looks like I better do it now. lol
When I bought it they said there would only be a digital release in NA. man I'd love to get a physical copy of the game now. guess I'll have to do some looking around for a copy.
FUD is always more fun than actually reading and learning!
SneakyStephan
Banned
3 years after they stop supporting the system judging from this article
so..; in 2 years?
Starwolf_UK
Member
Just to be clear here you don't own either of the following:
-A PS3
-A Windows PC
If you do then you need to do nothing as you can still use the store and download games to the PSP as has been said about 60 times in the thread.
Do you live in:
-Europe
-Ocean
-Asia (not Japan)
-Parts of Africa that can use PSN store
If not again you need to do nothing as your crappy PSN store on PSP browser still works.
You can still purchase PSP games and download them onto your PSP.
It's very easy to tell in this thread who isn't reading the OP.
LiquidSolid
Member
You don't even need a PS3 or Windows PC. Sony have said that you'll still be able to access the download list from the PSP, so all you'd need is a decent browser to access the webstore and make all your purchases on it, then download them using the download list.
Kovaelin
Member
Ah.. thanks. I realize that downloading previous purchases won't be a problem, but accessing the PSN store from my PSP was still nice. I'd still rather not lose it, even if some people did see this as being inevitable. I didn't have to sort through all the stuff I couldn't play, and I remember there being some DLC I could only see when I was on the PSP.
In any case, that wasn't my point. One week notification is still very little time. If the company operated this way with something more popular, people wouldn't be so forgiving.
If more people cared, they wouldn't be cutting off store access in the first place.
So the PSP store is now dead in the UK. It still opens but one of the image titles now says 'The PlayStation Portable store has moved to store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com', everything else is blanked out.
You can still access your download list directly on the PSP, but given that it lists absolutely everything you've ever downloaded on your account I hope you enjoy scrolling if you want to find those PSP games you bought years ago.
Media Go's download list does filter to only PSP content but it seems broken in that there is a limit on how many it can show as it's only showing the most recent games I bought (10 variations of MGS and MGS special missions... thanks Sony/Kojima).
Seems the quickest way to re-download your stuff is via the web store to a PS3, but if you only have the PSP you can at least download (and buy) games without needing anything else.
You can still access your download list directly on the PSP, but given that it lists absolutely everything you've ever downloaded on your account I hope you enjoy scrolling if you want to find those PSP games you bought years ago.
Media Go's download list does filter to only PSP content but it seems broken in that there is a limit on how many it can show as it's only showing the most recent games I bought (10 variations of MGS and MGS special missions... thanks Sony/Kojima).
Seems the quickest way to re-download your stuff is via the web store to a PS3, but if you only have the PSP you can at least download (and buy) games without needing anything else.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
It's easy to forget now, but for most of the PSP's lifespan, you didn't have access to the store on the machine anyway. It was an addition in much later firmware updates.
For now it has been removed, it will or should be back in the near future. They basically removed the game, patch the firmware with exploit hole, wait some weeks, then placed back for sale.
As far as Im aware it was due to the exploit within that game not because some licensing issues where it had to be taken down like a few other titles.
Thanks for the info! Does it work on the Vita by any chance? I bought the game a long time ago and my PSPGo has been dead for a long while too. I'm buying a Vita soon and I'm assuming it should appear on my downloads list. Anything I should be aware of? Sorry to bother.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
You can always run firmware updates from the eBoot firmware upgrade files that non-Sony people have already archived on the web... so I'd say that's not really a concern even if Sony shuts everything down someday.