Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta...
by batty_alex on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:27AM
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> To be honest, I still don't understand why they needed to shut the storefront.
I'd guess the cost of maintaining contracts to distribute licenses for games that publishers otherwise don't want to sell anymore.
> Not that that stopped Nintendo, they took everything down for the original Wii, purchases and all.
Yeah, this one was heart-breaking. A lot of my friends started getting real leery of digital purchases after the Wii debacle. At least the X360/PS3/Vita/Wii/WiiU have been cracked wide-open and the modding community can keep them going at this point - we've still got that to hold onto. The PS4, on the other hand...
I'd guess the cost of maintaining contracts to distribute licenses for games that publishers otherwise don't want to sell anymore.
> Not that that stopped Nintendo, they took everything down for the original Wii, purchases and all.
Yeah, this one was heart-breaking. A lot of my friends started getting real leery of digital purchases after the Wii debacle. At least the X360/PS3/Vita/Wii/WiiU have been cracked wide-open and the modding community can keep them going at this point - we've still got that to hold onto. The PS4, on the other hand...