Buying PS Plus Subs on PS3, PS Vita Won't Be an Option When Service Re-Launches in June

Anyone know what happens if you have PS Now and PS Plus? The PS Now will convert to Premium but what about any months of Plus you have? Are they just useless?

I mean, does this come as any great surprise?

Certainly the Vita is redundant now to all except the most ardent zealots.

And i imagine they're doing their absolute best to phase the PS3 completely out of existence with the network.

@Angelus3K It's combined. It's still a deal though, saves you a few quid a month. It's basically the cost monthly of Now + base level plus converted into premium which is £13.99 i believe. Now is £9.99 and regular plus (currently) £6.99, so means you save like £3 a month. Not to mention the additional stuff you get out of the Premium deal.

To be honest, if you're purely a PS3 and Vita owner, you don't really need Plus anyway, given both were free to play online regardless of a Plus sub. You'd only be getting the free games.

@BeerIsAwesome you'd only lose the save back up features on Vita, as I think you can use usb saves on PS3.

I really don't get how sony will release hardware that'll play vita games on a big screen (PSvita TV) but not even attempt to add that ability to it's more powerful machines. No doubt sony will turn off the ps3 - vita store servers in a few years in a deluded push to make punters stump up for 'premium'. Every year the big 3 make crazy decisions that make PC gaming more and more attractive, why?

this may be an extreme case but if anyone is continuing to pay for plus so they don’t lose access to ps3 and vita games they previously got and don’t have a modern consoled they could be affected I guess.

Ok well I still have a vita and PS3 but I use my PS4 mainly so no difference there

I have a PS, PS2, PSP and a Vita. I suppose I'm one of the few then that had a Vita as my only modern PS console

Doesnt do any good on those systems anyway.

@AndyKazama The Vita uses a modified USB cable to power itself, so I guess it stands to reason that there's a way to do it that way as well.

@AndyKazama You can back up Vita games on a PC via Sony's clunky program. Doing this also backs up the saves.

I think it would be hard for some countries who do not have a PSN because Sony didn’t give them I don’t know if I’m right.

That's crap I've got a ps3 so being able to play the PS3 games natively would've been great

@Would_you_kindly That'd be pretty cool actually, if all the ps3 psnow games were downloadable to a ps3 if you had the subscription active. Would be very niche and hard to advertise, but some of the more dedicated gamers would certainly appreciate it.

@Balosi would definitely be good for games that use the camera & move controller I'm playing hotd 4 ATM & ps now doesn't support the move controller unfortunately

I have used the Vita as a main PlayStation console for some years, thanks in part to the free online capability. However I have moved on, sold the Vita recently.

It was mainly after getting the Switch, I felt the screen of the Vita is kind of small to play on.

Fun time with the Vita, it was.

Eyeing the Steam Deck though

As stated in the article the PS3 is all but defunct would it be too much to ask for my PS3 content to be made available to me on the PS4/PS5 I spent hundreds on that system for me to lose it all yes I could buy a PS3 but that would be taking a step backwards I think all my purchases should be in the same place if i want access to games I already own for PS3 I have to pay again to play them it's a backward process.