Old Playstation Stores shutting down soon (rumor)
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So-Called Pirates Are Doing The Work When Publishers Fail To Preserve Their Games
Yesterday, TheGamer reported that Sony has plans to shut down the online PS3, PS Vita, and PSP stores that service those older consoles. While this has yet to be confirmed, and Sony has not responded to Kotaku’s request for comment, the internet discourse around this potentially troubling news...
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So yeah, it was a pain, but dumping all my PS3 games was a good idea.
Expect issues like this to pop up more and more as time goes on. Someone mentioned before they prefer physical because those don't go away when the servers do, but the hardware those games run on will itself die. Maybe not soon, but eventually. Same for the physical media, actually. Discs and cartridges don't last forever either.
Developers would rather force us to buy "remasters" of old games (probably for a higher price than the original) for what few games they deem profitable, and get us to forget that all the others even existed.So-Called Pirates Are Doing The Work When Publishers Fail To Preserve Their Games
Yesterday, TheGamer reported that Sony has plans to shut down the online PS3, PS Vita, and PSP stores that service those older consoles. While this has yet to be confirmed, and Sony has not responded to Kotaku’s request for comment, the internet discourse around this potentially troubling news...
This is on topic thanks to these types of things.
You know I gotta be honest, I don't really mind buying updated versions of games that I really likes back in the day but flashed up a bit for new hardware. Like the Mass Effect Trilogy thing coming soon, I'm down to buy and replay those titles with some extra polish on them.
And I think for old games as well a remake is a nice way to regain games you used to love but experience them like new again.
I know it bothers a lot of people, but I actually really like it for the most part. So long as it's not fucked up like Warcraft 3 reforged.
You know that timebomb issue in the PS3 Dwarvenhobble posted?
Also present in the PS4, except it's worse:
Also present in the PS4, except it's worse:
It kills Disc playback? Yo that sounds like something I would hope gets patched out of the firmware because that's fucking dogshit.
How does that even work with playstations that have never connected to the internet?
For it being proprietyary. I just got a 256 GB USB for $20 and used it to back up some important stuff. But I get it. Sony made it so you have to spend a fortune on small cards. These are OK at that price for what it is..
As someone who really liked Peace Walker(More then 4 or V), I totally understand why. It was a PSP game to start that got ported to PS3(and nowhere else), it didn't get as much attention as the others and in some ways it's not as iconic as the others, even if it is a lot better put together then V is. It really doesn't help V feels a much bigger budget take on Peace Walker, except the story is gutted and all the characters are either boring or unlikable and instead of an interesting villain scheme from Hot Coldman you get Skullface ranting on about languages in a jeep for 5 minutes followed by an awkward silence.
God, why did Kojima got with V instead of 5? So they could do that stupid "V has come to" thing that comes up like once? V for Venom?
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360 as well, and by extension the Xbone and Series systems with backwards compatibility. You don't get Transfarring. but good luck getting decent third party batteries for the PSP to even do that.
That and the same shit with Peace sign that Peace Walker did. Peace Walker itself was almost 5 and I think was shown off as such really early on in promotion.
In Sony’s case they let you use a number of different SSD sizes and probably cover it in their ToS or warranty that if you screw up with trying to fit the wrong drive, it’s on the user and they can then sell them another replacement console. I wonder how many times something like that has happened. Seems kinda win:win for them as they give the choice but also get extra sales because the company isn’t liable for human stupidity.
It’s also a rudimentary symbol for peace, which is I guess supposed to be the fine print takeaway for the series and it just so happens to follow up...Peacewalker.
As an aside I know what you mean as being designed for a handheld, PW is basically a much more focused, efficiently designed kind of game that Kojima wanted to expand upon, but the mainline console entries just got wilder and wilder to pretty much mirror the budget afforded to them.
As another aside, in my return to MGSV it probably isn’t too much a coincidence that last night I got to the part where you find the AI pod from PW, and that it has also become my favorite part of the game’s story/plot/nanomachines/diné.
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The PS4 relies on its internal CMOS battery, or a server connection, to maintain date/time information. If it ever loses both, it essentially bricks the console.
All the more reason to use GOG. GOG is DRM-free and offers offline installers for their games, meaning you can download the files an keep yourself a local backup of anything purchased through them.
Most third party software for Sony consoles is either CFW or home-brew that runs on CFW. It's not too hard to jailbreak a Vita on the upside, though it's harder than it is to jailbreak a PSP (because Sony's private key for PSP FW updates got leaked, which means that CFW for PSP is indistinguishable to the PSP from an official FW update).
Much if not all of it is already saved, though storage requirements get progressively harsher with each generation. You can fit every Atari 2600 game ever made on a floppy disc, every NES or SNES game on a CD, PSP UMDs typically held around 1GB each, while the current Switch E Shop (don't have a number for how many/how large are any physical only releases) requires a ridiculous amount of storage (like, US only end of 2020 in compressed format clocking in at 5.66TB). Google actually changed their policies for shared team drives because people were replicating complete game collections for PS3 and later consoles and it was becoming a problem.
So long as the battery works then the console is good then? I wonder how hard those would be to replace.
CMOS batteries aren't hard to acquire, the difficulty is replacing the battery without breaking the circuit.
Yeh, I know. I'm a bit of an emulation enthusiast and have spent a significant amount of time and effort dumping my own games, including PSP and PS3. So I'm familiar with CFW. But don't have a Vita, so I'm not in the know about its particulars. But yeah, I know a lot has already been saved. As mentioned, there's a fair bit of overlap between the piracy and emulation scenes. But there's still gaps, more obscure games and a lot of DLCs. Hence my hope the community will try to fill in those gaps. Which will eat up a lot of storage. I should know, my console game backups takes up about 2TB. Almost twice that if I include pc games. And as you said, that's only a fraction of what is out there.
Replace a cmos battery? Easy. Cheap too. Couple bucks gets you a new battery from the nearest gas station or wherever you can get batteries, and they last a good while. But this battery powers the internal clock of the console. The moment you remove the battery to replace it, that clock loses power, stops working. Putting in a new battery will probably get it to run again, but the time you spent replacing will not update by itself. So the next time you boot up your PS4 it will notice the time is wrong and try to fix this by calling home to Sony to authenticate.
But when the console can't call home anymore, the time stays wrong. Which does not seem like it matters much, but it does. Because trophies require an up to date clock to work, while trophies working is in turn a requirement for games to work. And pretty much all PS4 games have trophies, whether digital, or physical.
This is why the PS4 becomes a timebomb the moment Sony turns off the PS4 servers. From then on, all PS4s remaining lifespan becomes whatever the cmos battery's remaining lifespan is. Unless Sony releases an end-of-life firmware update that removes that requirement. Or you have the skills to replace the battery without breaking the circuit as 09philj said, or you know how to hack the clock.
Chances are good that yes, it does. It's a quick, easy and cheap solution. Hence why it's used so much. Technically, the same can happen to any pc, because those also have one of those batteries on the motherboard. But it's not as big a problem there, because pc being what it is, there are simply more avenues to fix it.