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Microsoft has officially shuttered the Xbox 360 store, following in the historic footsteps of Nintendo, which closed the Wii/Wii U shop in 2019. Against all odds, that somehow leaves Sony's overpriced, notoriously difficult-to-develop-for PS3 as the last seventh-gen video game console to remain online, with a functioning (albeit deserted) marketplace. The war is over; lay down your controllers; now we need a time machine to send word back to 2005.
As Sony is still rumoured to struggle to port PS3 titles to modern platforms, it's probably a good thing, too, just from a video game preservation perspective. That, and of course, the threat of the PlayStation faithful rioting again, as they notably did last time Sony said it was taking the rickety PlayStation Store associated with PS3 (and PS Vita) offline (before notably walking that one back). Sadly, the day will inevitably come when we must all bid goodbye to that legendary seventh generation of consoles we love so well; today is not that day.
PSP storefront still closing in July
Did you ever think the sluggish PS Store on PS3 would remain online in 2024 BCE? In the comments section below, place your bets on when the era will finally end.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
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I'm afraid.
But sure they will axed it down the line.
Can’t put into words how hard I smiled seeing the thumbnail. Kudos to the thumbnail maker.
the ps3 generation did have some quality games its just a shame there no backwards compatibility for it
when they eventually do close the ps3
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