From slow connection issues to slow downloads to missing buttons, it can be difficult to locate your PSP, Vita, and PS3 libraries
After hearing the news about the closure of PSP, Vita and PS3 stores last week, I was disappointed, but I wasn’t as fired as some. Rather like around tired and tired. Do we really do that, Sony? Welp, okay.
With the recent clarification that we will be able to continue downloading our purchases after the store closes (for now, for now), I had planned to postpone putting my libraries in order. July 2 – the closing date of the PS3 and PSP store – felt far enough away that I didn’t have to take action.
With this “I’ll deal with it later” mentality, on Friday, I started rummaging around various forums and communities to refresh myself about what it’s worth to look at digital-only games and profitable purchases before it’s too late. grave costs How much does it cost on disk nowadays? Okay, sure, another PS1 classic for the list. The next thing I knew, I was in the research pit and I couldn’t help myself. I went kind of crazy.
On the PSP and Vita front, I have a PlayStation Portable, but it no longer has a functional battery (the bombing took me). And, although I never owned a PlayStation Vita proper, I got a PlayStation TV back when they were very cheap – I never bothered to do much with the small box after a superficial look.
My PS3 is of a variety that is not played on PS2 discs and I got it late in the cycle, so I never got to get many titles for it. Funny enough, most of my PS3 games are just cool, weird, networked indies of the PlayStation Network – the exact kind of thing people are in a hurry to catch before stores close in 2021.
Of course, you don’t have to know my personal PlayStation history, but I’ll only briefly mention it as a starting point. After reconfiguring my systems, I found some games I didn’t expect – when the hell I bought them The Red Ring? – and I realized I don’t have everything I thought I did.
Whether you’ve sworn to Sony or are still open to the idea of buying digital copies of older PlayStation games while you’re allowed to, in any case, I urge you to make a decision sooner rather than later. Due to the impossibility of checking the “inherited” console libraries in a web browser, the accounting process is a huge pain. I say this as someone who, again, doesn’t even own so many digital things.
My first wake-up call was when I tried to connect to these systems. I started with PlayStation TV first, and while my account information was still there, my password gave me an error. As it turns out, I had to authenticate my PS by connecting to PS TV and PS3 using a semi-obscure Sony page to generate a password.
(If you have 2 steps and you’re fighting like me: go to PlayStation Store, click your avatar up, then Account Settings, then Security, and finally your device setup password. This will help you sign in. )
Once I connected, I took stock of my PSP, Vita and PS3 games and cross-referenced this very useful collection of game recommendation lists on ResetEra. Another good thing: this list of games you can play on Vita, but only if you buy them on a PS3 and then transfer them over.
If there’s one theme in this article, it’s that everything involved in preparing to close the PlayStation Store is time consuming and more complicated than it should be – as a matter of order.
For example, the “Add to cart” button (and, as a result, price information) is invisible to me in the PS3 store.
I had recently heard complaints about this, but I saw it for myself wild. As a solution to the missing button, every time I landed on a game I wanted to buy (a process in itself), I had to go down and highlight the “Overview” button, then press up once and press X to confirm. I also read about purchases that fail to pass, but I did not encounter any of these errors. Fingers crossed.
If you’re like me, you’ll want to fill in the gaps in your PS1 and PS2 Classics collections on PS3 and Vita. It’s less than ideal, but in many cases, it’s better to search for games manually than to rely on incomplete PlayStation Store lists. For the first, search for “PSOne”; for the latter, “PS2”. It should display an alphabetical list of classics so you can examine them. I would also take notes, as needed, to find out which of your games are already installed – The download list is not useful. It is still a clunker in 2021.
With the risk of going too far, there is also the problem of browsing the PlayStation Store and downloading, installing and correcting games in general on these platforms. Everything is a lot slower than I remember and I had no particularly pleasant memories. Enter this process waiting to take care of everything – even in the best of circumstances, it will feel like a project.
I came up with a dozen other PS1 classics, inclusive Mega Man Legends, Suikoden, and The legend of the Dragon, as well as resident Evil(I’ll laugh if Capcom makes modern ports later this year for the 25th anniversary of the series) and unforgettable titles Ogre Tactics: Let’s get together. When will I ever get to play any of this? This is a topic for another day – but I’ll try, honestly!
I only did the bare minimum, meaning I got the games I wanted (and some I probably didn’t need), but I didn’t make any backups or put in extra time to fix my digital purchasing issues. However, these conversations take place online. If you’re investing in your digital library for PSP, Vita, and PS3, I wouldn’t necessarily encourage you to start buying a bunch of old games you may or may not need before Sony pulls out new purchases. , but I would do it start to realize a plan.
For anyone moving away from the PlayStation ecosystem in light of these stops – or at least reconsidering their position on digital procurement at Sony – I feel you. The brand was very successful.
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