vita isnt even a decade old yet. that's like if they discontinued the ps4 store next year
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
They've literally released new (shitty-looking, but still) Vita games on the PSN store in 2021.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
shocked that Sony actually paid attention! there must've been a surge of buying.
― Nhex, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
Based on that blog post and what was discussed in a recent AMA with a former Playstation employee, it sounds like this decision all came down to not wanting to maintain whatever form of payment verification they maintain on the PS3/Vita side of the store. I guess if users have demonstrated that it's worthwhile to maintain, Sony is willing to eat the cost and manpower.
It was all just seems so stupid anyway. I get generally miffed when people/big corporate entities just sit on IP instead of releasing it to the public but doubly so when it's freakin' digital media. If you don't have to deal with the infrastructure of manufacturing/storing physical copies of a thing, the costs of making it accessible have to be minimal for a company of that size. Like you either keep the store up and you make maybe not a huge amount of money but at least some money off of this shit you have the rights to make money off of, or you shut it down and you make zero money and you engender ill will.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
It was all just seems so stupid anyway.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
Ye gods: https://kotaku.com/sony-playstation-hack-breach-ransomware-ransomed-vc-1850870993
― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Monday, 25 September 2023 19:51 (eleven months ago) link
i’d think if you had access to “all of Sony’s systems” you’d have more than 6000… log files? html? eh??
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:08 (eleven months ago) link