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Well if they kill off legit ways to buy vita games it's open season for hackers. The day they close the store is the day I finally mod my vita-TV ! I have never felt the need until recently when Sony decided that my entire PS1 PS2 PS3 PSP/ Vita collection will be stranded on aging hardware and will never work on future PlayStations, not to mention the countless digital legacy games forever lost to history with the coming store closures.

I never emulate PlayStation games because I have spent literally thousands on ps1 ps2 ps3 psp/vita games and therefore own every single game I care about. But locking classics behind the most expensive paywall AND planning to close the ps3/vita store AND not even trying to implement an official ps3 emulator makes me think that PC is the way to go for retro gaming. Hell an xbox-s/x with dev mode/retroarch is doing PS back compat better than Sony! What a Joke...

Thanks to enterprising tech wizards i'm currently playing Killzone 2 and Resistance online despite Sony turning off the official servers! Rather than shutdown these games they should open them up to community support and let the fans keep them alive if they want to

Please no more Fortnite clones for 10 year olds

All I wanted was to be able to play the 40+ classics I have already purchased. All I expect from Sony is the ability to rent a catalogue of games I already bought. Back compat is basic functionality not a 'premium' feature. Really disappointed that their solution is pay us again, but this time ad infintum!

Would much prefer Mania 2, I'm still wondering why Sega won't make a 2D Sonic Maker, i'd love to make / share / play community levels

Wowzers... People been gitting gud!

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk looks like the Jet Set Radio 3 we never got. As a massive Dreamcast fan i'm kinda scared Sega will ruin their iconic IP with nft/mtx nonsense but we need new games in these franchises full stop! Hell i'd settle for a HD remaster of Jet Set Future for PlayStation consoles as that one was xbox exclusive. Don't really see how Crazy Taxi + Jet Set fit the live service model though, well see I guess

The future of multiplayer is live service, but more importantly free to play. If Battlefield 2042, Babylons Fall, and Anthem teach us anything it's that people don't want to pay full price for live service multiplayer focused titles. Fortnite / Warzone changed the game, we can't go back.. Personally i'd love a F2P Killzone or Resistance but only if they don't abandon their singleplayer focus generally

Don't worry, just pay sony your subscription every year forever then you can play classics!

Lets be real, they should've been working on this since the launch of ps4, it's not happening, what shocks me is that they didn't utilize ps now to allow players the chance to stream their old ps3 games they bought digitally! I don't care if they are streamed or not I just want sony to register I have bought catherine digitally for ps3, therefore I should be able to stream it on ps4/5 through ps now without paying another damn sub. Surely that's easier than ground up cell emulation?

When you are the top dog why try harder right? Well maybe because your competition is offering proper backwards compatibility, a more powerfull machine, and a better value subscription! Dammit Sony you are making microsoft look consumer friendly and in-touch! That's how bad it is...

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?

Why on earth they think classic games are a premium feature is beyond me. This news just ensures ps3s across the globe will stay hooked up in perpetuity and playstation piracy will remain rampant on PC. I just wanted the microsoft approach not this nintendo style nonsense. Hugely dissapointed and worried about the future of PS game preservation

Didn't he say back compat is 'often requested, but rarely used'?.. well at 100 smackers a year you can bet that'll be true Jimmy boy!

It appears they completely botched back compat, only people celebrating this news are xbox & maybe the emulation groups ie duckstation, pcsx2 etc. What an own goal... MS is laughing at us right now

Awful, locked native back compat behind the most expensive tier. no support of previously purchased classics. A smack in the face of loyal fans who will be forced to emulate on PC (or pay an extortionate tax to play their paltry catalog) straight out of nintendos idiotic playbook. DOA

Want to play old games easily emulated on potato laptops? Give us 100 quid a year. Want to play the games you already own? GTFO!!!... I am actually shocked how bad sonys treatment of back compat is compared to xbox. I will eat my words if they allow me to access my ps1+ps2+psp classics library, but this sounds like another cynical 'lets re-sell everything' money hungry approach, that sucks, DOA for me

What they really need to do is give us the proper native backwards compatibility we deserve. Full ps1, ps2, psp, ps vita AND ps3 games playable, with all your old digital and disc purchases just working and available to everyone (not locked behind a pay wall) Trust me; i'm not holding my breath...

Strange, Rocket league / pubg went F2P and sony dropped the PS+ requirement, Destiny 2 went F2P and sony did not drop the requirement. I imagine this F2P status is the reason

I'm just hoping for the ability to play my digital collection of ps1 and ps2 classics and stream my ps3 purchases on ps4/ps5. But unfortunately I suspect it'll be more like nintendos approach; small catalogue of easily emulated usual suspects for which you will have to pay a premium

Hope these guys can work with Firesprite on a brand new Wipeout! Maybe the ps5 could reach 4k - 120fps?

People are getting really fed up of paying for online access when their friends on PC are getting a free pass, pay walls just go against the cross-platform future of multiplayer gaming. sony and microsoft see this. It's a very expensive killer ace up phil spencers sleeve and damocles sword for sony! Will he pull it? How will sony respond?. I think we don't have long to find out

Without a shadow of doubt the worst aspect of modern console gaming is the PS+/gold multiplayer tax. Rumour has it xbox may make all online play free soon, lets hope it happens and Sony is forced to follow suit

Man all I want to do is to play my ALREADY PURCHASED ps1 - ps2 - ps3 - psp/vita digital games on my PlayStation without paying another expensive infinite recurring subscription! Please Sony stop milking us dry with these never ending gaming taxes. You are forcing people to PC with your greed

Wait a minute... they are copying nintendos dumb move by charging a higher subscription 'tier' to access old games that should be playable by default? This is awful news, just ask the ninty fans! By all means combine PS+ and PSnow (should've happened years ago imo) but to lock your backwards compatibility initiative behind your most expensive pay wall is egregious!!! It's like they want us to pirate their old games..

An up-scaling vita emulator on ps4/ps5 would be nice, my whole collection is digital after all. Sort it sony!

I am not impressed, no campaign, 64 players on ps4 (Mag had 256 on ps3!) lobbies filled with bots AND they are charging full price? think I will wait for the inevitable free to play battlefield royale thank you very much

Cross play between PC and consoles will eventually kill off the PS+/xbox live subscription requirements. More and more people are noticing that the online multiplayer tax is not justified when your friends on PC get the same experience for free

I better go check if this will lock out any multiplayer trophies, fed up of companies creating unobtainable platinums by turning off servers, at least they gave us some notice...

I own all of them but only my vita can play every one digitally off my 64gb card, FF1,2,3 are on psp, 4,5,6,7,8,9 + tactics are ps one classics plus X+X-2 remaster on vita. Would be nice to get these for posterity for ps4/5 as the great store closure is definitely happening soon. PC folks have emulators so I doubt they give two hoots about this announcement

In this day and age it better be F2P or it will flounder, it's a blessing and a curse but multiplayer only games don't really succeed anymore unless they maximize their playerbase by being free. I suspect sony sees halos mp going standalone+F2P and they want to do the same with their big hitters as well. They even did a F2P uncharted 3 mp game back on ps3, it was a ton of fun, this will be the same deal I imagine

Not long till they put Cerny on to PS6, glad he gets to enjoy the fruits of his labour before he cracks on with designing future dream machines, what a legend

I predict that online multiplayer will be free again in the next 5 to 10 years. Consoles can't justify an online tax when the worlds biggest MP games are free to play

PS now could've been a decent backwards compatibility solution or a serious rival to gamepass, instead it's stuck in a terrible middle ground and fails in both regards

The more I hear about how these enormous back catalogues are being completely de-listed and lost to time in such short notice makes me think sony must have an ace up their sleeve. There is no way they are going to just leave all that history in the dust! We know you got these emulators in R&D sony, just give em to us for cryin out loud!

The minimum sony should've done is put the full ps1 / ps2 classics collection up on ps now already, furthermore allow us to play them if we purchased them in the past! What a pipe dream though

There go all those cool little digital games from the early days of the PSN. Thankful that our download lists are safe! The lack of respect for sony's own heritage is pretty shocking really, it's outright shameful that people will be forced into piracy just to play ps1 + ps2 games they'd buy legally if they could.

I'm still hoping that sony has something up their sleeve regarding back compat, it still boggles my mind why they don't allow you to play digital games you already bought for ps3 through ps now somehow. I bought catherine digitaly for ps3 years ago, why make me pay again just to stream it to ps4/5? Another thing they could do but just won't

What really grinds my gears is that native ps1 ps2 and psp emulators already exist on your ps4! They are simply locked away in the firmware and are utilized by a handful of games such as Medieval, Parappa the rapper and locoroco remastered. Hackers/enthusiasts have definitively proven with Jailbroken ps4s that proper legacy support is not only possible but actually exists now... They just refuse to let you use it properly, Jim Ryan needs to get a grip!

Closing the store is one thing, but turning off servers for downloads and gameplay is quite another. I suspect-hope they simply close the store but keep purchase downloads going in perpetuity. Suddenly deleting all access to paid for ps1ps2ps3 licences would be a huge story, the internet would meltdown and microsoft would make hay. I'm more worried they shut off all online play on ps3, I predict that's not too far off unfortunately

The old way was already a hassle, shocked to hear it's now worse, guess sony really is focusing on singleplayer gaming

Well i'm blown away by the quality of games you can play without spending anything; Apex, warzone, fortnite, warframe, rocket league, genshin etc, 70 quid games look absolutely daft by comparison

I don't understand why people refuse to even try free to play games, if you don't like it you can delete it and you loose nothing

They could but they won't, they have ps1-ps2-psp emulators already on ps4 which can be unlocked through hacks, they just withhold tech to make money reselling our games to us. Bad show

You'd think a company that's proud of it's history would do more to preserve it's back catalogue, 25 years of incredible computer entainment and we can only play the last 6/7 years worth. Lets hope sony finally realizes backwards compatibility matters

If the rumour that xbox is ditching xbox live gold subscriptions is true and multiplayer goes free then this 250 quid box will fly off the shelves. Xbox might have next gen stiched up!

Wow psyonix actually convinced sony to drop the ps+ requirement from a game! That's huge! l know F2P games don't require plus but games that transition from paid to free have still needed ps+ for some reason. This is a positive move by sony, I just wonder why Bungie couldn't convince sony to drop ps+ paywalls in destiny 2 when that went free to play

It's time to admit crysis looks dated in 2020, crysis 2 and 3 on the other hand still hold up on a good PC. I was hoping for a crysis trilogy at 60fps 1080p on ps4, with a full blown open world next gen crysis 4 on ps5, it's time for a comeback me thinks

Ps3 was the best PlayStation, free online play, HD widescreen gaming, blu-ray playback, full backwards compatibility, (at launch at least). Sure it was expensive but it was worth every penny