I really miss the funny sounds when you scroll. It wasn't the normal XMB clicking sound. The way you search for games after the update is so clunky and silly.
Seein’ comments like this makes me feel so old, man. My official childhood ended two years before the PS3 came out, and the majority of my childhood was SNES/Sega Genesis/PS1…while the PS2 led me into adulthood.
@@brucevandermescht6957 brother I was born in 2002, I was 4 years old when the PS3 launched, got it in 2010, when I was 8. To say the ps3 defined my Childhood would be an understatement. I grew up with shooters like killzone, cod and Action Adventure titles like gow, uncharted and rdr. I will truly miss my ps3 when it is done and dusted, no matter if I am a grown man or not
There’s only at least 3 games (Or 4 if I end up buying Castlevania Harmony of Despair due to the DLCs it has, though can you also buy them on the PS4 version?) that I need to buy before the store closes for good, I wasted a lot of good money just to buy trash sonic games on there when I could’ve played some better games before most of them got delisted.
@@tselotiii every sonic game that I've wasted 18 years on when I was 4 years old, from classic, to dreamcast, to modern, are all trash, I was dumb enough to be convinced by scummy sonic youtubers like premy and ls mark to give those garbage games a shot, it was all a waste of my time and money, and the fanbase is a lost cause like indie shills. Also I literally had a mental breakdown at one point to myself 6 years ago when playing the chun-nan dlc cause of how terrible it was, which put a bad affect on my mental health at the time, I still blame the people that actually convinced me to think that the dlcs (And the game in general) were good, end of conversation about that garbage franchise.
@@calebproductions1264 Hey man, I don't agree with what you're saying. Sonic games might not be peak entertainment, or something you'd cry a multitude of tears of joy over, but they're certainly not trash; neither are they very difficult. Games aren't something you should put much stress over anyway. Appreciate the fun aspects of it. If a game, regardless if its sonic or not, is making you mad to the point it gives you a mental breakdown, then you should probably call it a day and turn the game off.
I really miss the old PS3 store. I hated the change to what is now the PS3 and PS4 store. The PS3 version of this also had weird sound effects the PS4 didn't. The old bright blue and orange bubble tiles aesthetic and sound effects were brilliant. Real shame they changed it and never looked back.
The PS Vita store is still like that but it has a similar issue as Ryan described here that it seems empty and you have to actively look for your games.
The store where I used to get demos and download DLC. I would spend hours looking at what I can’t buy since I was just a kid. The memories. Thank you to the PS3!
Be LOUD gamers. I still find myself going back to buy PS3 games online. This year I bought the Resident Evil Umbrella/Darkside Collection after playing around with the idea for basically a decade. I bought Metal Gear Revengeance during the 2020 quarantine. And generally speaking it’s the only way for me to guarantee playing a new PS3 game. Because not every country is a first world and the second hand market can be INSANE! And even the last PS3 version has a “faulty” disc reader that won’t last forever, so having it digital guarantees a longer play time. So again, BE LOUD, PROTECT THE STORE LIKE WE DID BEFORE!
The eu storefront is arguably even worse, especially when trying to search for things like psp and ps1 classics. There are less than ten psp games that are displayed when using filters on the “all games” section.
Pretty much boils down to piracy being a service issue and sony is doing a poor job giving actual customers a proper service while modders can offer an alternative thats infinitely better.
I remember when someone was told to jailbreak the PS3 when the PS4 released. He did an overly complicated method using its OpenOS. They removed it in a system update to all consoles to stop him. He then did an easier hack that gives even more features. They sued him. Resulting in a rogue member of the biggest hacker group in the world to immediately, without fail and without workaround, shut down all of PSN for a month. This jailbreaker was the guy who made the first jailbroken smartphone, doing it so he could have a cheaper internet provider for the smartphone, and that was back when Apple was based and congratulated him on it.
It's crazy how some things on the Store are still set at full price, some things being over $100 😭 they need to atleast put everything on a permanent sale or something
@@mbern4530That really depends. Also, contract states Sony ultimately controls prices. Just like franchise owners can only do much with their brick & mortars. Sony hosts the grand sales.
Recently just got a PS3 to play GTA4 and Skate 3, looking through the store broke my heart with how rough it is. I remember how amazing it was when it first released. Great video to watch. Im keeping my PS3 until the day i die.
Thanks to the modding community, nothing is truly coming to an end. PS3 has become incredibly easy to jailbreak and all the software can be obtained via the console itself completely free. We don’t need to rely on Sony any longer to preserve its history.
@@lemming9984 That should have been possible to do on PC though. I never looked too much into that before already having hacked my Vita, but there's the QMCA variant of the PS Vita content manager app which bypasses PSN and also lets you manage more file types and multiple backup copies at once. I'm not sure you even need a hacked Vita for that one to do a better job.
I can't be the only one that think this is an absurd. Imagine if steam took down all games from 2014 and back. PS should've made this store available on the ps5. The games on this store should be up as long as new human being are born.
@@DavideDavini I'm not sure what you're suggesting really, but it taps into the question of actually owning your own media, which is rare these days since even in the best of cloud cases, it's still on somebody else's server and look at the state of the PS3 store. I doubt Amazon or somebody will honor purchases from 2008 in 2038. About the "take time to be available" is adjacent to what I'm doing with all my files: I burn all my personal files (photos, mostly) to bluray-R discs and when the news recently came about Sony stopping their manufacturing of BD-R, all tech channels including Digital Foundry were like "pfff, who cares, we have SSD these days, and optical is dead slow". Forgive me, but all drive types will fail and optical isn't all that slow. 13 minutes with a standard reader to copy 25 GB of data is still pretty dang good, and will still work in 2038 when all HDDs have dropped to the floor or had other mechanical failures, and all SSDs will have had bit rot or failing cells. Optical will still go strong and I would be very willing to back up all my PSN games to optical.
@@DavideDavini I'm not sure what you're suggesting really, but it taps into the question of actually owning your own media, which is rare these days since even in the best of cloud cases, it's still on somebody else's server and look at the state of the PS3 store. I doubt Amazon or somebody will honor purchases from 2008 in 2038. About the "take time to be available" is adjacent to what I'm doing with all my files: I burn all my personal files (photos, mostly) to bluray-R discs and when the news recently came about Sony stopping their manufacturing of BD-R, all tech channels including Digital Foundry were like "pfff, who cares, we have SSD these days, and optical is extremely slow". Forgive me, but all drive types will fail and optical isn't all that slow. 13 minutes with a standard reader to copy 25 GB of data is still pretty dang good, and will still work in 2038 when all HDDs have dropped to the floor or had other mechanical failures, and all SSDs will have had bit rot or failing cells. Optical will still go strong. I would like to backup all my PSN titles to optical.
Steam no longer supports Windows 8.1 or older so even though the old games are downloadable they may have issues. I had a Windows 7 retro gaming PC from 2010, but decided to reformat it to Linux after Steam pulled support (sacrificing a few games but getting a more useable PC).
Yeah it should last 100 years. That gives all owners enough time to use what they purchased. It's not that much server space. Or at the very least make new systems fully backwards compatible.
The big takeaway I didn't know from this video is that the licenses I bought for my PSOne classics bought on PS3 carried over onto PS5. Didn't know that they don't make you repurchase the games. That's cool. I wonder if that works for the PS2 Classics as well.
To answer the last part, unfortunately no. I had GTA Vice City as a PS2 classic on PS3 but it didn’t carry over to the PS4 release. So it’s even stranger they did do it for PS1 classics specifically.
That was a different situation than actual classics from Sony. I don't think we've gotten any PS2 games from Premiun releases that were on the PS3 store yet.@@strykah92
They’re too lazy to do that because even though they’re a AAA company, they don’t wanna spend millions of dollars to port more PS2 and PS3 titles to their newer comsoles cause that be “wasting money” to them.
@XBC3-4GOTY same, but my ps3 needs an update to access psn. Should l do it? I heard a while ago that the last update were bricking systems. Is that still true?
And 11 years later and they still havent done anything to make the digital games on it backwards compatible. Like Nintendo screwed over everyone who bought a Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. At least Microsoft kept a library of their store on current Xbox.
Something that was glossed over in this video, which makes the PS3 storefront even harder to use, is that it's not as simple as just adding wallet funds to your account to then buy the digital content. You'll receive an error if you have any kind of credit card linked to your PSN account. You have to remove all of your linked cards, then you can purchase your game and you'll have to re add your cards back to your PSN account.
I was 16, my wife was 12 (we were 28 and 24 when we met) when PS3 came out. I didn't actually get one until I was 20, but it still feels like just the right console that fit right in with my transition from being a kid to being an adult. You can even see the transition in my collections. My PS1 collection has all K-A/E games except one T game. My PS2 collection has a half and half number of E and T games, just one M game. Then my PS3 has a mixture of all of them, and a large number of M games.
I had mine for almost a decade now and I could’ve bought more physical PS3 games for cheap when PS3 was still relevant, instead I had to waste my time and money playing shitty sonic games like a dumbass.
@@calebproductions1264 Hold on, now. My PS3 has an excellent Sonic collection, 06 notwithstanding. Generations Unleashed Sega All Stars Racing 1-2 Genesis Collection I mean, come on. It's a great console for Sonic.
It's so sad! This is the only way we can access the PS3 digital library, and it gets worse over time 😢 I personally don't want it to shut down until Sony finds a way to import the digital library to newer PS store... Thanks for the information, Ryan! Great, as always 👌👏🙌
Love that you're covering this. I frequent the ps3 store quite often as it's one of the last little nuggets of marketplaces where you can get classic PS1/PS2 games without having to pay premium due to egregious collector prices (which I contribute to). I always have at least like $20 in my wallet so I can pick up whatever ps3 psn store i'm looking at
On the UK store, there isn't a way to search for PS1 or PS2 classics. There's no game type for them. We also have a smaller selection which are only searchable on a per game basis. Also the majority of them are the PAL 50hz releases.
I bought Silent Hill (PS1) through the US version of the store. Had to use a credit card to buy a digital 10-dollar voucher on PlayStation's site and add it to my US profile through the phone app. A bit overcomplicated, especially since I was doing this from Bulgaria, but it was definitely still feasible as of June 2024.
I remember my Dad's friend had bought his PS3 in the States when he was on a trip from his home country in the UK. He from then on had major issues buying anything through the store because he needed to purchase US PS Cards and get them sent to his address to put the funds in or it wouldn't work 😅😂. I had the same issue when my Dad was in the States and sent me a gift card to me in Canada, just for it not to work on my PlayStation store cause we were Canadian based 😂
@@NathanBMedia Oh, I'm so happy that nowadays it's possible for many of us to make multiple regional accounts and top up digital funds within minutes. I feel bad for people looking to find classic games cheaply, when not available digitally. If this had been such a case, there's no way I would've paid EUR 200 for an original SH disc, hence missing out on this wonderful game. I'm normally almost always pro-physical games, but there are undeniably plenty of convenient digital cases, too.
in finland we have 1500 games left in the store that you can view. but there are bunch of games that you have to manually search to find what you want.
I kinda wish that Sony would change the storefront back to the more responsive and fast version prior to the PS4 makeover, but knowing Sony, they’ll probably remove another nice QOL feature from the PS3 instead.
Sony has done such a bad job of preserving things that you're better off jailbreaking your PS3 and playing copied games or even just using the emulator on a PC and doing the same
@@scottneil1187 It's crazy how people need trophies to even stay interested in the game nowadays, PS1 and PS2 games didn't have trophies yet you still found a way to have fun.
@@QXZ_Productions I tried yesterday but in EU store that doesn't work because we don't have that category, so in the search we can only find PS1 games by typing the name of the game 😑 and they removed some games like Dino Crisis, 6 months ago it was there....
I actually was on the PS3 store last week to purchase some games like Killzone HD and Um Jammer Lammy, and I discovered the exact same filtering issue for the PSone classics. I had to fight my way to discover a ton of other PSone games that were on the store. It’s good these games are still there but it’s gonna be a more of a pain finding and discovering the last games I want from the store before it closes soon. I plan to get WipEout, Mega Man Legends games, Siren, Tokyo Jungle, and a few others, but it’s gonna get harder to find them in the store and find other games I wanna add to the list.
The PS3 store in the UK is basically broken. It's so slow and so much is now missing its getting to the point where they might as well put it out of its misery.
That's what Sony would want. Don't say things like that and maybe complain to them so they fix it and make it work. They are only doing this because they want you to only buy the new stuff. It's ridiculous.
I’m from the UK too with a modded PS3 Slim. Whatever is no longer available to me gets downloaded on the PKGi Store. Just like week I bought Symphony of the Night and Parasite Eve 2, so I have no issues still buying games either.
I’m so glad you made a video about this. I just was trying to buy games off the store about 2 weeks ago and boy was it a PAIN. I had to add funds to the wallet, DELETE MY CARD, buy the games, THEN add my card back in my account. The only way I could have it download/purchase.
“Go digital” -The people who didn’t put any of these facts into perspective. 300 games removed, that digital dummies cannot play because the game was removed and it’s (hopefully not) become a digital world.
You can still download them if you have purchased them before delisting, unless they now have the "This software cannot be installed on your PS3 System" message on your purchase history.
@@X2011racer I have had it happen to Haven on my ps5/4. Or it’s “PSN locked”. Maybe licensing? Never stopped membership, never downgraded membership, never even deleted it. If someone has the answer I appreciate it, not trying to start any type of debate. I do have a pic of said “PSN locked” scenario
@user-hh2ns3fd3c I never had that happen. Did you: 1. Press Triangle and selected Info and see if the expiration date has passed, if any? 2. See if the PSN account that bought the software is still on your console? 3. If it does, is it activated on the console or is it banned? 4. Find Restore Licenses on the system settings or PSN Account settings? If so, select it.
@@X2011racer thank you I will try to remember to check and reply back. I will say this is my console from new, bought on my Psn account and no modding or any type.
The same type of stupid people that try to convince companies to not make stuff physical just because they’re too damn lazy to clean their shelves and some other dumb shit, and look at the results for digital stores, most of the stuff that people enjoy are gone and will never come back, even tv streaming services are removing some movies like Rio that people enjoy.
Just booted up my PS3 for the first time in years and was amazed at how slow the store was to load anything. Took multiple minutes just to get to the home page and then navigating it took just as long.
@@jacktyler1082 No matter what I do, it will not validate my payment method. The theme is free but I added money anyways to be sure but it still will not validate my payment method.
You can I believe get free themes created online through the browser for the PS3 (on some rather sketchy websites but take the risk if you want) I got a free Destiny theme that had the music and a bunch of symbols from the game, interactive sounds and such (assuming the browser search still works on the PS3)
@@NathanBMediayou can't really hide any malware in a p3t file that the PS3 can read, otherwise there'd be a well known theme that triggered an exploit for CFW or HEN
To me, this was the last real unique console generation. PS4 and xbox were basically identical, just with slightly different specs in favor of the ps4. And I cannot say I was really all that blown away by the graphics improvement over the ps3, not nearly as much as I was going from ps2 to ps3.
With Playstationb 3 private server scene now, there's soo much DLC for games on the store you should really buy now because when a game gets revived you can play that DLC
You know what's the worse: the last update for PS3 (some months ago) broke PSP: now you can't copy content from PS3 to PSP, and even worse, some PSOne classic just stop working on PSP, disgusting situation.
I would assume (and I could be wrong about this) they would have to go through another licensing process before being published on another platform. It could also be why there’s many Xbox 360 games that weren’t added to the Xbox BC program despite still being available on the actual Xbox 360 store to this day.
It's also sad just how much has been delisted. Wanted to buy Soul Calibur 2 HD and Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day but I can't because the games aren't available to purchase. It's a complete bummer.
I just bought Soul Calibur 2 HD Online this month. It's still availble for a Hong Kong account. I made one and bought it. Hurry up before it gets delisted
Its interesting cause the PS3 came out in that weird time where we were transitioning to digital store fronts. So even from an archival pov there should be incentive for Sony to keep it going or at least maintain it to some degree. There's real history there.
I’m very impressed with the ps3 honestly. I had one when I was very little, but it ended up breaking. Never got another one until Christmas last year. It’s really cool how even all these years later, the ps3 doesn’t feel like an outdated piece of technology.
Even for people that generally only collect physical media they will still suffer from a PS3 store shutdown by not being able to buy DLC in the future for the games they like unless they buy it all now while the store is still active. (If you can find it in the awful menus). It will be sad to not be able to do this at some point in the future if I pick up a physical game for my collection after they do eventually close the store as I am sure I will still be growing my Physical PS3 collection for years to come.
I don't think we should just expect that these stores are going to eventually go down. Keep the posture that it is unacceptable. It needs to be as painful as possible, so that the motivation to *not* do it remains stronger than the motivation to do it.
I'm so glad that someone brought this up! I was going worried that my PS3 is getting broken! I have the exact same issues and observations on the UAE store, which is a sub-store from the European one. The number of games that are not listed but I found through search and bought is in the region of 20+! The entire storefront is so buggy and laggy that it drives me nuts when I want to get something on it! Definitely not a good sign for the longevity of this thing. I opened my PSN account on April 2007 and honestly still enjoy some of the first content I bought back then like Rub'aDub, Gran Turismo HD demo, and Siren: Blood Curse, which was my first ever full game digital download. The current state of the store is really ruining the nostalgia... Shame!
@@rexthewolf3149 yeah I figured that's the usual case but if they had the licencing for them before why not now? Like they still sell the games digitally on PS3 and have done for years plus many of them are ps one exclusives etc so you couldn't get them anywhere else. When you see the startup on most ps one games it says published by Sony (SIE). If it truly is a rights issue then the rights holders are letting the games die rather than get easy money. I do admit Sony's priorities are out of whack when it comes to ps5 etc. They take forever to do anything (if anything) when customers and fans are screaming at them. Still desperately waiting for PS Plus Premium to be worth it, uploading one or 2 games here and there still ain't cutting it for most of us. It's on the rise but very very slowly.
@@ashwath5733 a lot of people actually. Like us who grew up with them and have a big connection to a lot of the older games. There's a big crowd for emulation, I've been playing some PS1 and PS2 games on my phone but id much rather play them on my ps5. There's also the preservation of games, a lot of games begin to disappear with no legitimate way of playing them which leads to piracy. We would hope the big companies could do something to prevent this and keep customers happy, especially if they already have the means to do this.
As EU Swede I can say even the PS4/PS5 store seem to be falling apart as well. Have seen many instances of the wrong language for the story or stats of games. Games that have simply been 404 for years. Duplication of games without any way to tell what the difference there is, if any. It's just a mess.
I wished they kept doing sale deals on PS3 store and have the ability to buy those games from PS5 to play on PS3. It would been really nice… I definitely recommend getting games that have platinum trophies. I’ve been going through every game that is digital only on PS3 and there’s about 111+ games on there that support Platinum Trophies while 600+ games have Gold, Silver, Bronze trophies. There are a few none trophies that came out before PlayStation did trophies which is cool which is small amount like 10+. There are still cross buy games that still work with both PS3 and Vita games so if you buy the game on sale from PS4/PS5 store you will get the PS3 or Vita versions.
Nice video, Ryan. I'm hoping my mom still has my PS3 in my childhood bedroom when I go back in April. I appreciate the tip about buying classics on PS3 to play on Vita/PS5.
I have been seeing similar nonesense on the XBOX store. I see games that are backwards compatible on sale on the 360 but NOT on newer consoles they are full price or "NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE" when viewed on newer consoles.
I would love to see a breakdown of what digital only PS3 games as well as Classics are only purchasable on the PS3 store. I’d like to make sure I buy everything I’d need before the eventual store closure.
The truth is the ps3 and vita store were broken shortly after those original closure dates. Its there but there not supporting it. Last time i got on the vita store dozens of games store pages just wouldn't load
My bigger problem with it is how quickly it kicks me out of the store for any little thing. Also, the in-store download list has a smaller number of owned items than your actual (more functional) download list from account management.
I have been having the store freeze or just exit when I am in it for a good while. I had to reformat my PS3 hard drive a while back which sucked but I am enjoying playing all my games from scratch again. I am grateful that the store is still up too. I am constantly looking on there for classic games that I can't play on the PS4.
@@sparker.24 im saying that if you have the option disc is better i have bought myself digital games and didnt have a problem with them. I just cant justify ps3 digital prices and you mever know especially on ps3 when the whole thing comes down. Also inside ps3 there is a battery that if it goes bad you cant access sony servers so for perservation thats another plus only on ps3 though
Greatly appreciated the video, as one of the two million or so who still plays on the PS3. I think the 'delisting' is due to an algorithm than automatically removes games that are more than ten years old from the lists.
I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO ACCESS THE OLD STORE FRONT! sorry for caps. At the main menu of Metal Gear Rising, select downloadable content and go to the PS store.
@@socommaster unfortunately it is just all the old sound effects and design and you're only able to see your downloads or dlc for Metal Gear Rising. You cannot search for games, but if you wanted to experience how quick and organized it was like before 2013-14 change- it's there. Just a little bit of fun.
There is a problem with some countries where they fully disabled the ps3 store for some reason, for example in Croatia they shut the store down because we changed currencies, from our original currency to the Euro, and the store has been unavailabe since the end of 2023.
Yeah the PS3 was my childhood, plus was the first console I purchased digital games for. The original model I’ve had since 2006 with the backwards PS2 compatibility lasted for years and never once malfunctioned on me.
I think even searching "PSOne" vs. "PS One" returns different results, almost like an intern wrongly tagged a game. I didn't think of searching for PS3 to find the PSOne classics. I'm gonna try that later today. Also, I didn't realize the licenses were forward compatible with PS4 and PS5. Thanks for the helpful info as always!
Appstore is also a trainwreck on iPad 1. Unfortunately old devices and systems often have little to no support. Luckily emulation is on for PS3, so this patches that void.
The tip about buying original versions of games and getting the PS4/PS5 versions is a good thing to share. I got The Last Frontier without realising, did the same with Daxter. £6.49 vs. £7.99 though, easy choice. It feels like a loophole that shouldn't exist, but there are probably so few people able to take advantage of it they haven't bothered going anything about it.
Now that the Xbox 360 marketplace is done. I should get on my PS3 and look around. I have a modded 2TB backwards compatible console, with the Emotion card. I really need to use it more.
Literally just bought the original PS3 that plays the 1 and 2 PS games just for that. Was surprised how the store still worked and how massive the selection was….
Best solution Sony can do, if PS6 is their next launch years from now, is make backwards compatibility all the way back from PS1, and make PS-Portal have a store front of backlog of PSP & Vita games.
So what happens if they stop allowing us to redownload games? Do we just lose all of the money we’ve ever spent on the store? Very concerning considering I have well over 600+ games on my account.
This makes me wonder if there's a way to save our digital content, games and add ons for example, onto an external drive to be downloaded and used in years to come. And would they still work if not connected to the internet at all or for when PSN is no longer connecting to the console.
unless Sony unlocked the PS3 like a CFW and allow download to USB like PS5 did except this time the game don’t have license verification required (just like GOG-Games did), then it is possible
Anyone else remember the old PSN store? How everything was perfectly categorised and quick to browse? Always hated the redesign of the store around the time the PS4 came out, still do.
Speaking of the ps3 store missing content has anyone noticed on the ps4 store free themes and avatars are starting to go missing? I thought it was an issue on the Japanese store but it’s the same for North America
Search bar and cart is literally in Japanese, the demos 50% of them are not even real demos they just be offering the game. For some reason you can still look GTHD Concept which was a limited gt game released in 2006
I had quite a long drawn out tech support back and forth With Sony regarding Grandia. I had previously purchased it in PS3 in like 2011 or something. And was expecting to be able to the download it on PS4. But it wasn't the case. It got weirder though as I wasn't even able to purchase it on PS4, any attempt to do so just went through to an error code. So I was incapable of purchasing it at all on PS4. Eventually they were able to add the licence to my account for PS4 and I now have access to it there. But it did take a while. Other games were more instantaneous. Especially the two that I bought on PS3 recently. Might have just been because of how long ago the Grandia purchase was perhaps.
2006: web based store 2008: we finally get the ps store app added to our home menu. 2012: new custom menu layout with buggy and choppy performance 2024: falling apart. I love the PlayStation but I feel this console went through hell and back over the years.
I have to comment on Japan Store language parts dripping into your American Store. That also always happened on PS4 and now still happens on PS5. So that one isn't just PS3 problem. That's how all three PS consoles still use cache data. It mixes up if you switch in between different languages. I also still have PS Store crashes, it closing, on PS5 if I browse it too much, especially after browsing two regions Stores.
It became bad when they tried to make it like the PS4 store. I miss how it was before. It was so fast and organized.
That the point, cuz forcing us to upgrade ps4 for forgetting their mistake on ps3
If you go to the debug settings and change the “PlayStation store ad clock” to 2012 you’ll have the old store back!
Whenever I hear Xbox 360 fans say they miss the Blades dashboard, I tell them I feel the same way about the 2008 PlayStation Store design!
@@lukeisbored8607Don't you need Custom Firmware or Hen for that?
I really miss the funny sounds when you scroll. It wasn't the normal XMB clicking sound. The way you search for games after the update is so clunky and silly.
The day ps3 stops functioning will be the official end of my Childhood.
Seein’ comments like this makes me feel so old, man. My official childhood ended two years before the PS3 came out, and the majority of my childhood was SNES/Sega Genesis/PS1…while the PS2 led me into adulthood.
Sounds like your childhood never ended. Grown men crying over consoles.
You can still buy discs though.
@@brucevandermescht6957 brother I was born in 2002, I was 4 years old when the PS3 launched, got it in 2010, when I was 8. To say the ps3 defined my Childhood would be an understatement. I grew up with shooters like killzone, cod and Action Adventure titles like gow, uncharted and rdr. I will truly miss my ps3 when it is done and dusted, no matter if I am a grown man or not
Your day comes soon my son
I got a PS3 six months before the PS4 released and the store was unbearably slow back then.
The store before 2010 used to be very simple and fast
@@Dragonfury3000 man I miss the original PS3 store. well organized, fast, no ads
@@Ronbotnik since ps plus came around in 2010 the store got alot slower and had redesigns like every year or so before ps4 came around.
@@Ronbotnikisn’t that store still on the system firmware but PSN forces the new store?
@@dark_horizon706yeah
In some old games you can access that old ps store
RIP to 3DS eShop, Wii U eShop, Xbox 360 Marketplace you all will be missed dearly.
PS3 hang in there old bud
Xbox 360 Dashboard: 2024-07-29 UPDATE:
Removed ALL stores. Three tabs remain.
@@Coolouieyes it’s bullshit bro, they should’ve left them there but just greyed out and not accessible
There's at least only 2 games on there that I still need to buy before the store is completely gone for good.
@@calebproductions1264 you can’t anymore and they are gone forever unless you were planning on buying BC games
@@Rimberio_6732 actually I'm still able to but I would have to do that soon cause who knows when this store will be forever closed.
PS3 is the last one standing. The only 7th gen store still up and running. Will be a sad day when it shuts down.
There’s only at least 3 games (Or 4 if I end up buying Castlevania Harmony of Despair due to the DLCs it has, though can you also buy them on the PS4 version?) that I need to buy before the store closes for good, I wasted a lot of good money just to buy trash sonic games on there when I could’ve played some better games before most of them got delisted.
@@calebproductions1264Unleashed isn't a trash sonic game...
@@tselotiii every sonic game that I've wasted 18 years on when I was 4 years old, from classic, to dreamcast, to modern, are all trash, I was dumb enough to be convinced by scummy sonic youtubers like premy and ls mark to give those garbage games a shot, it was all a waste of my time and money, and the fanbase is a lost cause like indie shills.
Also I literally had a mental breakdown at one point to myself 6 years ago when playing the chun-nan dlc cause of how terrible it was, which put a bad affect on my mental health at the time, I still blame the people that actually convinced me to think that the dlcs (And the game in general) were good, end of conversation about that garbage franchise.
@@calebproductions1264
"had a mental breakdown because I couldn't beat a level"
Lmao git wrecked noob
@@calebproductions1264 Hey man, I don't agree with what you're saying. Sonic games might not be peak entertainment, or something you'd cry a multitude of tears of joy over, but they're certainly not trash; neither are they very difficult. Games aren't something you should put much stress over anyway. Appreciate the fun aspects of it. If a game, regardless if its sonic or not, is making you mad to the point it gives you a mental breakdown, then you should probably call it a day and turn the game off.
I really miss the old PS3 store. I hated the change to what is now the PS3 and PS4 store. The PS3 version of this also had weird sound effects the PS4 didn't.
The old bright blue and orange bubble tiles aesthetic and sound effects were brilliant. Real shame they changed it and never looked back.
Yeah and the launch PS3 user interface was really cool on bootup. They changed it to a lame one. Even the UI got bogged down and slow.
@@robertlawrence9000 yeah the original boot up one sounded so classy 👌
The PS Vita store is still like that but it has a similar issue as Ryan described here that it seems empty and you have to actively look for your games.
Dude, the new store made it 1000% slower than the old one.
@@skyzocka yeah definitely
The store where I used to get demos and download DLC. I would spend hours looking at what I can’t buy since I was just a kid. The memories. Thank you to the PS3!
i replayed the mw2 demo so many times ha
aw poor baby
lol me too. I used to gaze hungrily at call of duty black ops 2 and gta 5 in the store xd
Be LOUD gamers. I still find myself going back to buy PS3 games online. This year I bought the Resident Evil Umbrella/Darkside Collection after playing around with the idea for basically a decade.
I bought Metal Gear Revengeance during the 2020 quarantine.
And generally speaking it’s the only way for me to guarantee playing a new PS3 game.
Because not every country is a first world and the second hand market can be INSANE!
And even the last PS3 version has a “faulty” disc reader that won’t last forever, so having it digital guarantees a longer play time.
So again, BE LOUD, PROTECT THE STORE LIKE WE DID BEFORE!
It's inevitable that it is going to shut down eventually. It is already rotting away and barely functional as is
@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 btw I find the term gamer cringe. I am not a "gamer" I am a person who just enjoys video games
You're a goofball dude. You know nothing of how Japanese companies operate. They will shut it when they want, it's inevitable
@@unicorntomboy9736In other words, you’re a gamer.
Ps3 is best. Current gen with ps5 is soo boring. We need backward compatibility.
The eu storefront is arguably even worse, especially when trying to search for things like psp and ps1 classics. There are less than ten psp games that are displayed when using filters on the “all games” section.
Yeah, it's literally crumbling down as we speak.
The Europe was always a disaster with games ...
Seems like Sony wants us to jailbreak our old consoles
Pretty much boils down to piracy being a service issue and sony is doing a poor job giving actual customers a proper service while modders can offer an alternative thats infinitely better.
@@DrilbitGabe said it best
ok bud
Except you can still download your previously purchased stuff, so I don't know what we're worrying about.
I remember when someone was told to jailbreak the PS3 when the PS4 released.
He did an overly complicated method using its OpenOS. They removed it in a system update to all consoles to stop him. He then did an easier hack that gives even more features. They sued him. Resulting in a rogue member of the biggest hacker group in the world to immediately, without fail and without workaround, shut down all of PSN for a month.
This jailbreaker was the guy who made the first jailbroken smartphone, doing it so he could have a cheaper internet provider for the smartphone, and that was back when Apple was based and congratulated him on it.
It's crazy how some things on the Store are still set at full price, some things being over $100 😭 they need to atleast put everything on a permanent sale or something
That's up to the publisher, not Sony. They probably make more money by having the odd purchase at $100 than many purchases at a lower price.
That’s what happened with the 360 store, some games like JD or PvZ in price, at least in the UK
DmC Complete Edition being like $80 USD (which is the og release with all the DLC, no definitive edition) will never stop being funny to me
just remember cod
@@mbern4530That really depends. Also, contract states Sony ultimately controls prices. Just like franchise owners can only do much with their brick & mortars. Sony hosts the grand sales.
Recently just got a PS3 to play GTA4 and Skate 3, looking through the store broke my heart with how rough it is. I remember how amazing it was when it first released. Great video to watch. Im keeping my PS3 until the day i die.
Or your PS3 dies .
Same here.
Ryan you should plan a community online day of play for ps3!
That would be awesome 😎
This!
I just got my PS3 plugged in and setup, I'd love for something like this to happen!
PS3 online is too insecure for something massive like this
At least Chaos is using his brain
Thanks to the modding community, nothing is truly coming to an end. PS3 has become incredibly easy to jailbreak and all the software can be obtained via the console itself completely free. We don’t need to rely on Sony any longer to preserve its history.
i might have to look into that. thank
@@ORLY911PS3 HEN is clutch
@@Henryhuggerzmentell me more
Yeah but it’s illigal, that the only downside.
Who cares, people break the law all the time
It annoys me very much that they destroyed the USB transfer feature between PS3 and Vita/PSP for no reason whatsoever.
Yea, i cant reinstall PlayStation all stars on my PS Vita since it needs the USB transfer from the PS3 disc
Just jailbreak your Vita / PSP and install roms
Yeah. I had to subscribe to the criminally overpriced PS Plus for 6 months just to back up my Vita saves to a spare memory card.
@@lemming9984You can backup your saves to your computer for free
@@lemming9984 That should have been possible to do on PC though. I never looked too much into that before already having hacked my Vita, but there's the QMCA variant of the PS Vita content manager app which bypasses PSN and also lets you manage more file types and multiple backup copies at once. I'm not sure you even need a hacked Vita for that one to do a better job.
I can't be the only one that think this is an absurd. Imagine if steam took down all games from 2014 and back. PS should've made this store available on the ps5. The games on this store should be up as long as new human being are born.
@@DavideDavini I'm not sure what you're suggesting really, but it taps into the question of actually owning your own media, which is rare these days since even in the best of cloud cases, it's still on somebody else's server and look at the state of the PS3 store. I doubt Amazon or somebody will honor purchases from 2008 in 2038.
About the "take time to be available" is adjacent to what I'm doing with all my files: I burn all my personal files (photos, mostly) to bluray-R discs and when the news recently came about Sony stopping their manufacturing of BD-R, all tech channels including Digital Foundry were like "pfff, who cares, we have SSD these days, and optical is dead slow". Forgive me, but all drive types will fail and optical isn't all that slow. 13 minutes with a standard reader to copy 25 GB of data is still pretty dang good, and will still work in 2038 when all HDDs have dropped to the floor or had other mechanical failures, and all SSDs will have had bit rot or failing cells. Optical will still go strong and I would be very willing to back up all my PSN games to optical.
@@DavideDavini I'm not sure what you're suggesting really, but it taps into the question of actually owning your own media, which is rare these days since even in the best of cloud cases, it's still on somebody else's server and look at the state of the PS3 store. I doubt Amazon or somebody will honor purchases from 2008 in 2038.
About the "take time to be available" is adjacent to what I'm doing with all my files: I burn all my personal files (photos, mostly) to bluray-R discs and when the news recently came about Sony stopping their manufacturing of BD-R, all tech channels including Digital Foundry were like "pfff, who cares, we have SSD these days, and optical is extremely slow". Forgive me, but all drive types will fail and optical isn't all that slow. 13 minutes with a standard reader to copy 25 GB of data is still pretty dang good, and will still work in 2038 when all HDDs have dropped to the floor or had other mechanical failures, and all SSDs will have had bit rot or failing cells. Optical will still go strong. I would like to backup all my PSN titles to optical.
But then they can't censor stuff in their new remaster they want to charge you for
Steam no longer supports Windows 8.1 or older so even though the old games are downloadable they may have issues. I had a Windows 7 retro gaming PC from 2010, but decided to reformat it to Linux after Steam pulled support (sacrificing a few games but getting a more useable PC).
Yeah it should last 100 years. That gives all owners enough time to use what they purchased. It's not that much server space. Or at the very least make new systems fully backwards compatible.
The big takeaway I didn't know from this video is that the licenses I bought for my PSOne classics bought on PS3 carried over onto PS5. Didn't know that they don't make you repurchase the games. That's cool. I wonder if that works for the PS2 Classics as well.
To answer the last part, unfortunately no. I had GTA Vice City as a PS2 classic on PS3 but it didn’t carry over to the PS4 release. So it’s even stranger they did do it for PS1 classics specifically.
That was a different situation than actual classics from Sony. I don't think we've gotten any PS2 games from Premiun releases that were on the PS3 store yet.@@strykah92
@@strykah92 ps5pro is coming!!! backward compatible ps3 ps2
xbox is dead sony king
@@omgoat are you a kid ? xbox been dead for 11 years now.
Same. Had Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life on PS3. Had to rebuy on PS4
I hope Sony figures out PS3 emulation before they close it down.
They already figured out. It's just too expensive, they can just shove up lazy remaster/remakes instead.
If they wanted to they would have by now..face it they do not care
PS5Pro baybe best console is coming soon
@@omgoatlmao the copium is strong with this one.
They’re too lazy to do that because even though they’re a AAA company, they don’t wanna spend millions of dollars to port more PS2 and PS3 titles to their newer comsoles cause that be “wasting money” to them.
My focus is on getting the ps1 classics cause I don't wanna buy the expensive physical versions
Especially XenoGears and Persona 2 Eternal Punishment
@@BigBossCQCLegend nice I think xenogears for me too and def final fantasy tactics. Already bought Suikoden 2 and vagrant story
@XBC3-4GOTY same, but my ps3 needs an update to access psn. Should l do it? I heard a while ago that the last update were bricking systems. Is that still true?
This comment smells like Misadventures of Tron Bonne and Symphony of the Night
@@KoolKeithProductions not true for me, id do it, risk it for the biscuit
And 11 years later and they still havent done anything to make the digital games on it backwards compatible. Like Nintendo screwed over everyone who bought a Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. At least Microsoft kept a library of their store on current Xbox.
Something that was glossed over in this video, which makes the PS3 storefront even harder to use, is that it's not as simple as just adding wallet funds to your account to then buy the digital content. You'll receive an error if you have any kind of credit card linked to your PSN account. You have to remove all of your linked cards, then you can purchase your game and you'll have to re add your cards back to your PSN account.
I've never had to do that, use the ps3 store all the time too.
The ps3 is 18 years old i still got my ps3 all these years i was 11 years old when the console came out now im 29 years old
Wow, its crazy how fast time flies
I was 16, my wife was 12 (we were 28 and 24 when we met) when PS3 came out. I didn't actually get one until I was 20, but it still feels like just the right console that fit right in with my transition from being a kid to being an adult.
You can even see the transition in my collections. My PS1 collection has all K-A/E games except one T game. My PS2 collection has a half and half number of E and T games, just one M game. Then my PS3 has a mixture of all of them, and a large number of M games.
I had mine for almost a decade now and I could’ve bought more physical PS3 games for cheap when PS3 was still relevant, instead I had to waste my time and money playing shitty sonic games like a dumbass.
Time flies, huh?
@@calebproductions1264 Hold on, now. My PS3 has an excellent Sonic collection, 06 notwithstanding.
Generations
Unleashed
Sega All Stars Racing 1-2
Genesis Collection
I mean, come on. It's a great console for Sonic.
It's so sad! This is the only way we can access the PS3 digital library, and it gets worse over time 😢 I personally don't want it to shut down until Sony finds a way to import the digital library to newer PS store...
Thanks for the information, Ryan! Great, as always 👌👏🙌
Love that you're covering this. I frequent the ps3 store quite often as it's one of the last little nuggets of marketplaces where you can get classic PS1/PS2 games without having to pay premium due to egregious collector prices (which I contribute to). I always have at least like $20 in my wallet so I can pick up whatever ps3 psn store i'm looking at
On the UK store, there isn't a way to search for PS1 or PS2 classics. There's no game type for them. We also have a smaller selection which are only searchable on a per game basis.
Also the majority of them are the PAL 50hz releases.
huh ok for me in germany i can buy ps 2 and ps 1 classics lol
i ripped my save file from the UK PAL PSX memory card and put it into retroarch emulator PAL version with 60fps patch to play like NTSC
I bought Silent Hill (PS1) through the US version of the store. Had to use a credit card to buy a digital 10-dollar voucher on PlayStation's site and add it to my US profile through the phone app. A bit overcomplicated, especially since I was doing this from Bulgaria, but it was definitely still feasible as of June 2024.
I remember my Dad's friend had bought his PS3 in the States when he was on a trip from his home country in the UK. He from then on had major issues buying anything through the store because he needed to purchase US PS Cards and get them sent to his address to put the funds in or it wouldn't work 😅😂. I had the same issue when my Dad was in the States and sent me a gift card to me in Canada, just for it not to work on my PlayStation store cause we were Canadian based 😂
@@NathanBMedia Oh, I'm so happy that nowadays it's possible for many of us to make multiple regional accounts and top up digital funds within minutes. I feel bad for people looking to find classic games cheaply, when not available digitally. If this had been such a case, there's no way I would've paid EUR 200 for an original SH disc, hence missing out on this wonderful game. I'm normally almost always pro-physical games, but there are undeniably plenty of convenient digital cases, too.
Same, but I used Amazon to buy the gift cards
Same
I bought the PSVITA in 2024 because I wanted to play Chrono Trigger. The console's remote play feature aged well by today's standards.
Dude I bought a ps3 for Mgs4 and my excitement that Chrono trigger and xenogears are in the store
if you havent, make sure to jailbreak that vita. comes in super clutch
Unless something is wrong with mine, it runs at like 5-10fps in game and less than 1 in the menu with PS3...
Not much better in Europe. But i usually buy physical for PS3 these days.
in finland we have 1500 games left in the store that you can view. but there are bunch of games that you have to manually search to find what you want.
I kinda wish that Sony would change the storefront back to the more responsive and fast version prior to the PS4 makeover, but knowing Sony, they’ll probably remove another nice QOL feature from the PS3 instead.
Sony has done such a bad job of preserving things that you're better off jailbreaking your PS3 and playing copied games or even just using the emulator on a PC and doing the same
No trophies, no point.
@@scottneil1187 It's crazy how people need trophies to even stay interested in the game nowadays, PS1 and PS2 games didn't have trophies yet you still found a way to have fun.
@@scottneil1187yo genius, you can still get trophies on a jailbroken ps3
@@user-sn8zx5mv1xLol, I knew people like this. Their main incentive would be trophies to play the games.
In EU we don't have that "PS One classic" categorie... We have to search manually... And Dino Crisis in gone 😢
Try searching "PS1" or "PSONE" textually. I've found the PS1 selection that way here in America.
@@QXZ_Productions I tried yesterday but in EU store that doesn't work because we don't have that category, so in the search we can only find PS1 games by typing the name of the game 😑 and they removed some games like Dino Crisis, 6 months ago it was there....
I actually was on the PS3 store last week to purchase some games like Killzone HD and Um Jammer Lammy, and I discovered the exact same filtering issue for the PSone classics. I had to fight my way to discover a ton of other PSone games that were on the store. It’s good these games are still there but it’s gonna be a more of a pain finding and discovering the last games I want from the store before it closes soon. I plan to get WipEout, Mega Man Legends games, Siren, Tokyo Jungle, and a few others, but it’s gonna get harder to find them in the store and find other games I wanna add to the list.
Siren is at least also on PS4/PS5. But there is also Siren: Blood Curse or something like that, only on PS3
The PS3 store in the UK is basically broken. It's so slow and so much is now missing its getting to the point where they might as well put it out of its misery.
Ours here is the worst in the world for sure.
That's what Sony would want. Don't say things like that and maybe complain to them so they fix it and make it work. They are only doing this because they want you to only buy the new stuff. It's ridiculous.
@robertlawrence9000 I've been complaining for 10 plus years and it just gets worse.
@@faves2064 Me too. I just don't want these stores to go away.
I’m from the UK too with a modded PS3 Slim. Whatever is no longer available to me gets downloaded on the PKGi Store. Just like week I bought Symphony of the Night and Parasite Eve 2, so I have no issues still buying games either.
I’m so glad you made a video about this. I just was trying to buy games off the store about 2 weeks ago and boy was it a PAIN. I had to add funds to the wallet, DELETE MY CARD, buy the games, THEN add my card back in my account. The only way I could have it download/purchase.
Hopefully the PS3 store hangs on longer. I haven't dealt with this store in a while since I modded my PS3 to have the old storefront, much better.
Basically a lot of licenses for games to be on that store have expired and thus, they go down.
“Go digital”
-The people who didn’t put any of these facts into perspective. 300 games removed, that digital dummies cannot play because the game was removed and it’s (hopefully not) become a digital world.
You can still download them if you have purchased them before delisting, unless they now have the "This software cannot be installed on your PS3 System" message on your purchase history.
@@X2011racer I have had it happen to Haven on my ps5/4. Or it’s “PSN locked”. Maybe licensing? Never stopped membership, never downgraded membership, never even deleted it. If someone has the answer I appreciate it, not trying to start any type of debate. I do have a pic of said “PSN locked” scenario
@user-hh2ns3fd3c I never had that happen. Did you:
1. Press Triangle and selected Info and see if the expiration date has passed, if any?
2. See if the PSN account that bought the software is still on your console?
3. If it does, is it activated on the console or is it banned?
4. Find Restore Licenses on the system settings or PSN Account settings? If so, select it.
@@X2011racer thank you I will try to remember to check and reply back. I will say this is my console from new, bought on my Psn account and no modding or any type.
The same type of stupid people that try to convince companies to not make stuff physical just because they’re too damn lazy to clean their shelves and some other dumb shit, and look at the results for digital stores, most of the stuff that people enjoy are gone and will never come back, even tv streaming services are removing some movies like Rio that people enjoy.
Since my PS4 Pro died, now I have to use only my PS3 and Xbox 360.
It's a pain to find my stuff to redownload on the PS3 store.
use the Download List in your PS3's account management
Curious question: how did your PS4 pro die?
@@M64bros Power spike fried the usb and network connectors and the console itself died a few weeks later.
@@fabiorosolen Oof.....
Go direct to download list/history, is the best way
Just booted up my PS3 for the first time in years and was amazed at how slow the store was to load anything. Took multiple minutes just to get to the home page and then navigating it took just as long.
0:51 The date on the article is exactly 10 years since the PS hack.
I can’t even download a free XMB theme anymore 😭😭 all I wanted was to have Spider-Man web slinging
? I bought a DLC on PS3 last week and it functions very well.
Internet is your friend. The ps3 store is pretty well preserved, including themes.
@@jacktyler1082 No matter what I do, it will not validate my payment method. The theme is free but I added money anyways to be sure but it still will not validate my payment method.
You can I believe get free themes created online through the browser for the PS3 (on some rather sketchy websites but take the risk if you want) I got a free Destiny theme that had the music and a bunch of symbols from the game, interactive sounds and such (assuming the browser search still works on the PS3)
@@NathanBMediayou can't really hide any malware in a p3t file that the PS3 can read, otherwise there'd be a well known theme that triggered an exploit for CFW or HEN
To me, this was the last real unique console generation. PS4 and xbox were basically identical, just with slightly different specs in favor of the ps4. And I cannot say I was really all that blown away by the graphics improvement over the ps3, not nearly as much as I was going from ps2 to ps3.
The difference between Xbox 360 and Xbox one is night and day
With Playstationb 3 private server scene now, there's soo much DLC for games on the store you should really buy now because when a game gets revived you can play that DLC
I was given a ps3 this year, it's the first time ever owning one (I only had a 360 as a kid) and I was surprised to see the store still online
This is where a 'legacy' store for all 'retired' consoles could be useful, perhaps? Just a thought!
You know what's the worse: the last update for PS3 (some months ago) broke PSP: now you can't copy content from PS3 to PSP, and even worse, some PSOne classic just stop working on PSP, disgusting situation.
Some one at sony is laughing because their plan worked
They basically are forcing you to jailbreak now and turn to piracy
Nah I'm keeping mine at 4.89 cuz wtf
Its like sony wants everyone to resort to jailbreaking their systems and piracy.
@@Thurzin_hzdon’t update it! I updated my ps3 recently in order to sign in and it is TRASH
Sad the Xbox community didn’t try to stop the closing
I mean xbox has always been abt playing online so it makes sense they more focused on the newest Halo and COD multiplayer
Theres so much on this store that, for some dumb reason, is not on the PS4/5 stores. So many PS One classics that still exist on the PS3 store.
I would assume (and I could be wrong about this) they would have to go through another licensing process before being published on another platform. It could also be why there’s many Xbox 360 games that weren’t added to the Xbox BC program despite still being available on the actual Xbox 360 store to this day.
It's also sad just how much has been delisted. Wanted to buy Soul Calibur 2 HD and Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day but I can't because the games aren't available to purchase. It's a complete bummer.
I just bought Soul Calibur 2 HD Online this month. It's still availble for a Hong Kong account. I made one and bought it. Hurry up before it gets delisted
Its interesting cause the PS3 came out in that weird time where we were transitioning to digital store fronts. So even from an archival pov there should be incentive for Sony to keep it going or at least maintain it to some degree. There's real history there.
They should’ve kept the 2008 PlayStation Store design
with lag freeze include??
I’m very impressed with the ps3 honestly. I had one when I was very little, but it ended up breaking. Never got another one until Christmas last year. It’s really cool how even all these years later, the ps3 doesn’t feel like an outdated piece of technology.
Even for people that generally only collect physical media they will still suffer from a PS3 store shutdown by not being able to buy DLC in the future for the games they like unless they buy it all now while the store is still active. (If you can find it in the awful menus). It will be sad to not be able to do this at some point in the future if I pick up a physical game for my collection after they do eventually close the store as I am sure I will still be growing my Physical PS3 collection for years to come.
There’s always ways to get it, just not by official means.
I don't think we should just expect that these stores are going to eventually go down. Keep the posture that it is unacceptable. It needs to be as painful as possible, so that the motivation to *not* do it remains stronger than the motivation to do it.
It's only acceptable if it's all on the PlayStation 5 digital store and we know a lot is not on there. Some is.
They don't care.
In Europe the ps3 store is even worse
Nope, last week i bought a DLC on PS3 and all worked very well.
@@jacktyler1082 Well good for you.
It's still bad.
I can’t even buy anything on there, how are people still buying games on it?
@@jacktyler1082he mean delisted games getting more worse. Good for you if games that you wanted still there
@@GrainGrown Well, still better than Xbox360 Store.😂😂😂
I'm so glad that someone brought this up! I was going worried that my PS3 is getting broken! I have the exact same issues and observations on the UAE store, which is a sub-store from the European one. The number of games that are not listed but I found through search and bought is in the region of 20+! The entire storefront is so buggy and laggy that it drives me nuts when I want to get something on it! Definitely not a good sign for the longevity of this thing. I opened my PSN account on April 2007 and honestly still enjoy some of the first content I bought back then like Rub'aDub, Gran Turismo HD demo, and Siren: Blood Curse, which was my first ever full game digital download. The current state of the store is really ruining the nostalgia... Shame!
The fact all those ps one games are still on PS3 begs the question why are they not on ps5
Licensing and overall priorities
@@rexthewolf3149 yeah I figured that's the usual case but if they had the licencing for them before why not now? Like they still sell the games digitally on PS3 and have done for years plus many of them are ps one exclusives etc so you couldn't get them anywhere else. When you see the startup on most ps one games it says published by Sony (SIE). If it truly is a rights issue then the rights holders are letting the games die rather than get easy money.
I do admit Sony's priorities are out of whack when it comes to ps5 etc. They take forever to do anything (if anything) when customers and fans are screaming at them. Still desperately waiting for PS Plus Premium to be worth it, uploading one or 2 games here and there still ain't cutting it for most of us. It's on the rise but very very slowly.
Cos who tf wants to play ps1 games 😂
@@ashwath5733 a lot of people actually. Like us who grew up with them and have a big connection to a lot of the older games. There's a big crowd for emulation, I've been playing some PS1 and PS2 games on my phone but id much rather play them on my ps5. There's also the preservation of games, a lot of games begin to disappear with no legitimate way of playing them which leads to piracy. We would hope the big companies could do something to prevent this and keep customers happy, especially if they already have the means to do this.
@@ashwath5733up until the release of sly on ps plus premium, legend of the dragoon was the most streamed/played game on that service 🤡
As EU Swede I can say even the PS4/PS5 store seem to be falling apart as well. Have seen many instances of the wrong language for the story or stats of games. Games that have simply been 404 for years. Duplication of games without any way to tell what the difference there is, if any. It's just a mess.
I wished they kept doing sale deals on PS3 store and have the ability to buy those games from PS5 to play on PS3. It would been really nice…
I definitely recommend getting games that have platinum trophies. I’ve been going through every game that is digital only on PS3 and there’s about 111+ games on there that support Platinum Trophies while 600+ games have Gold, Silver, Bronze trophies.
There are a few none trophies that came out before PlayStation did trophies which is cool which is small amount like 10+.
There are still cross buy games that still work with both PS3 and Vita games so if you buy the game on sale from PS4/PS5 store you will get the PS3 or Vita versions.
Nice video, Ryan. I'm hoping my mom still has my PS3 in my childhood bedroom when I go back in April. I appreciate the tip about buying classics on PS3 to play on Vita/PS5.
I have been seeing similar nonesense on the XBOX store. I see games that are backwards compatible on sale on the 360 but NOT on newer consoles they are full price or "NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE" when viewed on newer consoles.
I would love to see a breakdown of what digital only PS3 games as well as Classics are only purchasable on the PS3 store. I’d like to make sure I buy everything I’d need before the eventual store closure.
The truth is the ps3 and vita store were broken shortly after those original closure dates. Its there but there not supporting it. Last time i got on the vita store dozens of games store pages just wouldn't load
My bigger problem with it is how quickly it kicks me out of the store for any little thing. Also, the in-store download list has a smaller number of owned items than your actual (more functional) download list from account management.
It's just so bizarre that they've made it so difficult for me to give them money...
Cuz they want it to die. It’s sad, but true
@@majinzombiegenociderI honestly think Sony is allergic to money
I have been having the store freeze or just exit when I am in it for a good while. I had to reformat my PS3 hard drive a while back which sucked but I am enjoying playing all my games from scratch again. I am grateful that the store is still up too. I am constantly looking on there for classic games that I can't play on the PS4.
Only buy discs you never know when its coming down. Thank god i got everything physical on my ps3
Not every single game is physical tho
I’m pretty sure KickAss 1 for PS3 is a digital only game. And that game so bad it’s good. Still have it downloaded. 😂
@@sparker.24 im saying that if you have the option disc is better i have bought myself digital games and didnt have a problem with them. I just cant justify ps3 digital prices and you mever know especially on ps3 when the whole thing comes down. Also inside ps3 there is a battery that if it goes bad you cant access sony servers so for perservation thats another plus only on ps3 though
Greatly appreciated the video, as one of the two million or so who still plays on the PS3.
I think the 'delisting' is due to an algorithm than automatically removes games that are more than ten years old from the lists.
I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO ACCESS THE OLD STORE FRONT! sorry for caps. At the main menu of Metal Gear Rising, select downloadable content and go to the PS store.
Whats the difference with the old store front and this?
@@socommaster unfortunately it is just all the old sound effects and design and you're only able to see your downloads or dlc for Metal Gear Rising. You cannot search for games, but if you wanted to experience how quick and organized it was like before 2013-14 change- it's there. Just a little bit of fun.
There is a problem with some countries where they fully disabled the ps3 store for some reason, for example in Croatia they shut the store down because we changed currencies, from our original currency to the Euro, and the store has been unavailabe since the end of 2023.
Yeah the PS3 was my childhood, plus was the first console I purchased digital games for. The original model I’ve had since 2006 with the backwards PS2 compatibility lasted for years and never once malfunctioned on me.
I think even searching "PSOne" vs. "PS One" returns different results, almost like an intern wrongly tagged a game. I didn't think of searching for PS3 to find the PSOne classics. I'm gonna try that later today. Also, I didn't realize the licenses were forward compatible with PS4 and PS5. Thanks for the helpful info as always!
Appstore is also a trainwreck on iPad 1. Unfortunately old devices and systems often have little to no support. Luckily emulation is on for PS3, so this patches that void.
Long live ps3.
Free MP
XMB
Endlessly exclusives too.
& PSP/VITA too.
free online play is still awesome ngl
I hate that there's a large selection of PS3 digital games that you cannot buy including socom 4, all of the 007 games and Resistance 3
The tip about buying original versions of games and getting the PS4/PS5 versions is a good thing to share. I got The Last Frontier without realising, did the same with Daxter. £6.49 vs. £7.99 though, easy choice. It feels like a loophole that shouldn't exist, but there are probably so few people able to take advantage of it they haven't bothered going anything about it.
Now that the Xbox 360 marketplace is done. I should get on my PS3 and look around. I have a modded 2TB backwards compatible console, with the Emotion card. I really need to use it more.
Literally just bought the original PS3 that plays the 1 and 2 PS games just for that. Was surprised how the store still worked and how massive the selection was….
yk what else, is massive?
@@Amrdagamerlow taper fade
The duct tape holding it together is peeling off. lol
Aw man. That's pretty funny.
Thanks for bringing light to this. I was complaining about this literally yesterday. I can't find DLC worth crap either
Best solution Sony can do, if PS6 is their next launch years from now, is make backwards compatibility all the way back from PS1, and make PS-Portal have a store front of backlog of PSP & Vita games.
Good thing the list on NPS isn't getting any smaller xP
So what happens if they stop allowing us to redownload games? Do we just lose all of the money we’ve ever spent on the store? Very concerning considering I have well over 600+ games on my account.
This makes me wonder if there's a way to save our digital content, games and add ons for example, onto an external drive to be downloaded and used in years to come. And would they still work if not connected to the internet at all or for when PSN is no longer connecting to the console.
unless Sony unlocked the PS3 like a CFW and allow download to USB like PS5 did except this time the game don’t have license verification required (just like GOG-Games did), then it is possible
Are there any news on the alleged PS3 backwards compatibility or emulation that was mentioned a few weeks ago?
Sony needs to keep the PS3 marketplace operational for as long as possible. There are still alot of fans of PS3 who also have a PS4 as well as a PS5.
I still occasionally buy stuff on the PS3. Trying to have what I need for when it inevitably goes down.
Same.
Still working?
@@dawizzynally8022 yes it still works though if you want to buy games on there you can use playstation gift cards on that shop.
Yeah just not very functional...@@dawizzynally8022
@@dawizzynally8022Idk
It’s time I dig out my PS3 and start looking through and games I’d want that I may play at some point.
PS3 and Vita are my daily. 💎💎
Anyone else remember the old PSN store? How everything was perfectly categorised and quick to browse? Always hated the redesign of the store around the time the PS4 came out, still do.
Thankfully it's still open. It's funny how often I keep going back to it to buy games I have missed out on lol
Same here, I still download games and demos from the store.
Speaking of the ps3 store missing content has anyone noticed on the ps4 store free themes and avatars are starting to go missing? I thought it was an issue on the Japanese store but it’s the same for North America
They moved them in different place not missing
Search bar and cart is literally in Japanese, the demos 50% of them are not even real demos they just be offering the game. For some reason you can still look GTHD Concept which was a limited gt game released in 2006
Im confused why alot of items are gone is just mostly related to the producers lose the license
I had quite a long drawn out tech support back and forth With Sony regarding Grandia. I had previously purchased it in PS3 in like 2011 or something. And was expecting to be able to the download it on PS4. But it wasn't the case. It got weirder though as I wasn't even able to purchase it on PS4, any attempt to do so just went through to an error code. So I was incapable of purchasing it at all on PS4. Eventually they were able to add the licence to my account for PS4 and I now have access to it there. But it did take a while. Other games were more instantaneous. Especially the two that I bought on PS3 recently. Might have just been because of how long ago the Grandia purchase was perhaps.
2006: web based store
2008: we finally get the ps store app added to our home menu.
2012: new custom menu layout with buggy and choppy performance
2024: falling apart. I love the PlayStation but I feel this console went through hell and back over the years.
I have to comment on Japan Store language parts dripping into your American Store. That also always happened on PS4 and now still happens on PS5. So that one isn't just PS3 problem. That's how all three PS consoles still use cache data. It mixes up if you switch in between different languages. I also still have PS Store crashes, it closing, on PS5 if I browse it too much, especially after browsing two regions Stores.
Nice intro. I miss the old ps3 logo when we used to start up games.
I bought my ps3 in 2010 for my 12 Birthday i feel old