I have an honest concern about this. I know this is corner case for some but the "House Of The Dead" collection is only on PSN, only on PS3. I have no way of getting my copy if they shut down and it hasn't been ported any where as far as I know.
Old Playstation Stores shutting down soon (rumor)
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Well, the solution would be to boot up your PS3, download the game while you can, and then never delete it.
And copy it to an external drive just in case something goes wrong with PS3. I myself am mostly concerned about my MGS Legacy Collection, along with the digital install of MGS4.
You can't just copy digital games off the PS3's hard drive without some considerable effort. If your PS3 has new enough firmware it's a process that will involve a soldering iron. Dumping games from discs is relatively straightforward though.
Not even using the backup utility? I mean, I know it’s useless to backup the games by themselves because they’re tied to the PS3 system checks, so it’s kind of a moot point as the data would ultimately need verification on any PS3 system to operate regardless. Save data is one thing, but I guess being able to use a backup install on a *newer* PS3 would be nice.
Having said that, perhaps we’ll need to rely on some form of emulation for everything and end up losing our progress on older games if Sony doesn’t honor legacy usage in the future. I think if they are going to require system checks like they currently do to run software, then they should either continue support or older titles or eventually switch them all over to emulation.
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We all knew this was coming. It's matter of "when", not "if". Thankfully, any games that I was interested on PS3, have been ported to PS4 or other modern consoles. It sucks that 3rd Strike Online Edition won't exist any more. Capcom, you dumb, lazy, bastards. Sony should really consider porting all of their old 1st party IPs from 7th gen on modern consoles. They lose literally nothing.
Got my email today. Downloads will still be available for the foreseeable future it seems.
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You can still DL your digital stuff, you just can't make new purchases basically. It's not like they're making new vita games all day. It's really not a big deal.
It was to be expected, since the PS3 has been a dead system for a couple years now so they'd eventually pull the plug on the store.
What sucks is that the PS4/PS5 aren't backwards compatible with it and apparently it's a pain to emulate due to some very unique system architecture. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the subject will chime in.
I don't think that's much of a risk actually because these games are still up on the ps4 version of the psn I believe. It's all one thing, so unless they move off to some other thing I don't think they would ever need to stop hosting the ps3/vita stuff.
RPCS3 is progressing, but yeah, it's a pain for various reasons. Partially because of that complex architecture, partially because the software side of things got way more complex in general in the HD era. Partially because emulators tend to be dependent on the time and effort of volunteers, and RPCS3 spent over half a decade not really getting anywhere. Until they implemented the Vulkan api in 2017, which massively improved emulation performance. This gave a the project a big shot in the arm, both in terms of development interest, and public interest. Currently, compatibility is about 60% playable, with playable meaning a game can be completed start to finish with no game-breaking bugs and playable performance.
Tho this comes with a bunch of caveats. For example, no game-breaking bugs does not mean no bugs. Expect many games to have visual glitches. Playable performance can have wildly differing hardware requirements, ranging from better than a real PS3 on a modest CPU, to only barely playable on a top of the line CPU*. Some games will only run well on a specific version of the emulator, which is not necessarily the newest one. Some games will only run at all on custom builds of the emulator. There's no solution for Sixaxis functionality yet, so any game that requires that in any way is unplayable by default. And of course, there are still many games that don't run good enough regardless of how beefy your hardware is, or what version emulator you use. Multiplatform games generally work well enough, as do many (indie) PSN titles, but most of the PS3 AAA exclusives aren't there yet.
It'll probably get there, but there is still a ways to go. I'm guessing 3-5 years, barring some unexpected breakthrough. We'll probably get good Switch emulation first.
* like most emulators, RPCS3 relies more on way more CPU than GPU, particularly single-threaded performance.