Sony is shutting down the web and mobile PS3, PSP, and PSV digital stores

[A Black Falcon]

Like, this week.  Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after, it's not clear, but sometime in the next few days there will be a new Playstation web store, and you won't be able to buy PS3, PSP, or PS Vita games anywhere other than on a PS3 or PS Vita anymore.  And with how the PSV store is missing some games that work with a Vita and the PS3 store is a barely usable nightmare of crashes and awful design, this is a really, really bad thing.  But why would Sony care?  Those systems are old, anyone not in their new system ecosystem isn't worth caring about, and nor is preservation obviously.  As PS head Jim Ryan said once, who'd want to play old games like those [I think he was referring to PS1 Gran Turismo] these days, those graphics are bad!

Oh, and the wishlist feature on the store will also be wiped and go away.  It's not clear if the new store will have a wishlist or not, but the old ones will be gone with this update.  Thanks.