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PSA: PSN store is scaling back
- Thread starter gorha
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Nope; dead as a door nail, that.
Mr. Sensible
Pitch and Putt Duffer
Yeah, we had an old TT 2.0 PSA thread about the impending Wii Shop closure. I ended up buying a bunch of Neo-Geo and Sega arcade titles right before they pulled the plug, but there are definitely still options for getting those games onto a Wii if you're willing to do homebrew.
Meanwhile, the other day I turned on my Xbox 360 for the first time since 2012, and found that I was perfectly able to download and install the "free" Crackdown and Lost Odyssey digital versions from the store, and can still purchase Blue Dragon both there and at the website if so inclined.
Kinda makes sense that Microsoft is better at the whole digital experience thing than Sony (or, eeeeeugh, Nintendo), but it's nice to know the services are still tightly integrated despite the web store looking nothing like it used to look when I first activated those free digital versions of my games.
Kinda makes sense that Microsoft is better at the whole digital experience thing than Sony (or, eeeeeugh, Nintendo), but it's nice to know the services are still tightly integrated despite the web store looking nothing like it used to look when I first activated those free digital versions of my games.
MS is better ay availability but their interface is a cluster fuck - particularly if you want to buy games for old platforms using modern methods - and their stores are badly integrated and poorly maintained. For example, you can't buy a 360 game using MS credit. Or my favorite - to this day the web UI has a bug in their JS code where any free Xbox 360 game in any locale that uses a comma for decimal points can only be redeemed in a 360 console (but you can work around it by using a Chrome extension to write an extra line of code in their store so the script doesn't crash trying to parse "0,0").
I'm pretty sure you are still able to redownload software you've purchased; at least as of a few months ago when I tried.
The associated support article on Nintendo's website indicates this should still be the case. And has yet to be updated to note that redownloads are no longer available.
The relevant quote on redownloading:
"Users were able to add Wii Points until March 26, 2018, and were able to purchase content on the Wii Shop Channel until January 30, 2019. In the future we will close all services related to the Wii Shop Channel, including the ability to redownload WiiWare and Virtual Console games, as well as the Wii System Transfer Tool, which transfers data from Wii to the Wii U system. We will announce specific details as that time approaches."
As of yet, they haven't announced when they might fully pull the plug yet. It'd be nice if they gave as much notice as they did between the time the last time you could add points and purchase software, which was about 9 months.
*Edit* Some recent-ish Youtbue videos confirm you can still download tiles you've previously purchased, but the rest of the shop is just empty, with no content other than:
-The Wii to Wii U Transfer tool (if you for some reason want do to that)
-Utility to patch Zelda Skyward Sword save files to get around a bug present in the initial printing of the game.
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Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
I should mess around with my spare system and try installing WiiWare/VC games on there. That's one thing I never really messed with on my main system - I was always afraid I'd end up bricking it. It took me forever to muster the courage to throw the custom IOSs on there to get USB Loader GX to work properly, but that honestly wasn't so bad as long as you follow a good tutorial. Totally worth it, too.
It's sad seeing over a dozen years of portable legacy being reduced to the dustbin of history, but it was inevitable since Sony seemed perfectly fine sweeping the PSP and Vita under the rug like Nintendo with the Wii U.
The unfortunate thing about this is that the PSN app on the Vita is garbage. Last time I checked it hasn't been updated for months with titles like Romancing Saga 3 missing and the search bar doesn't work.
The unfortunate thing about this is that the PSN app on the Vita is garbage. Last time I checked it hasn't been updated for months with titles like Romancing Saga 3 missing and the search bar doesn't work.
I did a browsethrough of every PS3, PSP and Vita release and came out of it with the final batch of things that I see myself wanting to grab, all for PS3: the DLC I was missing for Hard Corps: Uprising and Drakengard 3, and Siren: Blood Curse. Surprisingly little felt like I'd be remiss in not having more convenient access, or access at all to in the future, but I guess that goes to show I followed what interested me consistently enough over the years.
It's a shame I never got around to getting a PS3 or Vita, but most of the stuff I was most interested in has made or is making its way to other platforms or is at least on PlayStation Now.
I just wish the PSone and (more) PS2 stuff could make its way to some new platforms with improved emulation. And that new (old) stuff would show up.
I just wish the PSone and (more) PS2 stuff could make its way to some new platforms with improved emulation. And that new (old) stuff would show up.
Man, the new web UI went live here in EU and I'm hating it so much. It does look pretty and it's really functional... as long as you don't want to sort the list of games in the discount list, or filter a search, or find out how many GBs will a game take from your fridge. Functionality is so bare-bones even an emaciated skeleton would think you look too thin, mate, are you sure you're eating right?
The new UI is a non-functional mess, yeah. I liked the previous iteration because it was compact, concise, and things were easy to look up. The new "catalog" design is the opposite of that.
And I'll NEVER understand getting rid of wishlists. Whenever I hear of a sale at any of my game stores, my first instinct is to go to my wishlist to see if anything from there is discounted, and make new purchases accordingly--that's the whole reason I keep a wishlist. By making it harder to check which of my desired games is on sale, or making me forget what they were altogether, they lose my interest and I don't buy anything anymore.
And I'll NEVER understand getting rid of wishlists. Whenever I hear of a sale at any of my game stores, my first instinct is to go to my wishlist to see if anything from there is discounted, and make new purchases accordingly--that's the whole reason I keep a wishlist. By making it harder to check which of my desired games is on sale, or making me forget what they were altogether, they lose my interest and I don't buy anything anymore.
Meanwhile, I'm just over here remembering how the store used to be, and find any increase in actual functionality to be a humongous improvement. The old PS store via web browser was so poorly coded and implemented, that you'd be lucky if the thing even loaded correctly and would let you even buy games. There's definitely some bigotry of low expectations happening right now for me, but I still call this a marked improvement and thus a step in the right direction.
I'm wondering if the above was an issue with cookies or privacy plugins, since I did all of my digital PS shopping on the PSN web front, on multiple browsers and multiple computers with different security settings (Chrome and Firefox, including Android Chrome and my ultra-restrictive work PC and Mac) and never had any issue loading the store, shopping, or purchasing. I definitely trusted it more than I did Nintendo's web front and Microsoft's required a bazillion cookie permissions.
Phantoon
I cuss you bad
I could only do my shopping through the web store front because the PS4 would throw a hissy fit that I'd bought games anywhere else and wouldn't then accept my card. The PS3 site was cripplingly slow, and the Vita search function was bobbins
I've never been impressed by Sony's web store programming, how bad can this be?
I've never been impressed by Sony's web store programming, how bad can this be?