[nfw2]

As yes, the poor, ignorant average joe, who doesn't realize the game they buy on the PLAYSTATION store needs PLAYSTATION to work in order to play it. If only enough bloggers wrote enough articles to enlighten them, then they would join the mob and demand forever access to the games they play for 3 weeks then never play again.

[paulryanrogers]

Why carry water for billion dollar companies?

I can still play my brother's old PlayStation games on his OG PlayStation. They cannot be revoked arbitrarily, nor their music dropped or swapped out. This a feature, and we'd feel quite cheated if that happened. In fact we still go back to old games from time to time.

[nfw2]

I can still play the games I bought on the nintendo switch 8 years ago.

> Why carry water for billion companies?

All companies at a certain scale are billion dollar companies. Also, how much money a company has is unrelated to whether they violated consumer rights or not. But, tangentially, I do generally respect entities that fund creative endeavors moreso than I respect gamers who go online to bemoan how persecuted they are

[autoexec]

> I can still play the games I bought on the nintendo switch 8 years ago.

If those were digital copies you might have chance, otherwise don't count on them to keep working for long. The carts Nintendo used were made with memory that degrades when just sitting on a shelf and people are already reporting that their DS games are failing. I've got an Atari 2600 that still works and plays games fine though. Never even had to replace the joystick, which easily beats the joycons which drift after 400 hours

[paulryanrogers]

> I can still play the games I bought on the nintendo switch 8 years ago.

Good luck! I cannot play any of the digital Wii games I bought. And that's kind of my point. You pay the same price as a physical copy, using the same verb, and yet are actually renting for an undisclosed amount of time that may at any point be cut off.

Blockbuster never said I was 'buying' a game which they could take away at any moment. So why do we let these companies use contradictory or obtuse language at our expense?

> how much money a company has is unrelated to whether they violated consumer rights or not

Billion dollar companies are less sympathetic. As a consumer I might take a worse deal if it meant supporting a small creator whom I knew was sacrificing a lot for art.

[doctorpangloss]

> As a consumer I might take a worse deal if it meant supporting a small creator whom I knew was sacrificing a lot for art.

do you see how you and people who buy skins have something in common? you are writing about this, you will PAY for people to NOTICE that you support indie game developers. okay, and 13 year olds will pay for people to notice their cool skins. there are many ways to monetize, you are telling us that you would be monetize in the same category of monetization as freemium games, so are they really so bad? is ownership really important, or does it really belong to the same "noticing" category of monetization?

[paulryanrogers]

I'm not talking about freeware games with paid cosmetics. I'm talking about paid products that are sold using words like "buy" which in reality are being rented out.

[Telaneo]

Even if I only read a book once after buying it, it shouldn't turn into a rock just because I never intend to read it again.

[nfw2]

Have any of the books bought on Kindle turned into rocks or can their buyers read them again if they want to?

[Telaneo]

Pretty sure the answer to that is no, they haven't turned to rocks. I believe Amazon keeps a record of your book purchases, and Amazon isn't going away tomorrow, so you should be able to redownload your books (and probably even back them up). If so, all is good there (relatively speaking).

Sony also keeps records, but good luck redownloading your PSP game. Or your PS3 game for that matter. But at least in that case, if you already have it downloaded, you can still play your game. Sony couldn't come down from above and turn your game into a rock.

The Crew for PS4 on the other hand. You can (probably?) still redownload that, but that doesn't actually do you any good. Ubisoft did come down from above and turn that into a rock (there is no good reason to make a single-player gamemode online-only).

[Uvix]

Amazon may not be going away tomorrow, but they have form for disallowing redownloads of old ebook purchases. If you dared to buy ebooks from them pre-Kindle, you can't access them anymore. If you hold onto your Kindle devices for too long instead of replacing them with a newer model, you can't access your old books that aren't already downloaded until you buy a new device.

For now, Sony has no issues with people redownloading PS3 games. Or PSP games onto a Vita - not sure if you can still download onto an original PSP. They'll probably jump on the Amazon revoke-download train eventually, though.

[Telaneo]

> but they have form for disallowing redownloads of old ebook purchases. If you dared to buy ebooks from them pre-Kindle, you can't access them anymore.

Well that's bad and also shouldn't happen. They should not be able to come down from heaven and turn your books into rocks.

> If you hold onto your Kindle devices for too long instead of replacing them with a newer model, you can't access your old books that aren't already downloaded until you buy a new device.

This is functionally the same as the situation on consoles. You can play the game, but only if you've already downloaded it and kept it around. Not ideal, but at least it's possible to keep it around.

> For now, Sony has no issues with people redownloading PS3 games. Or PSP games onto a Vita

Not for long.[1]

> not sure if you can still download onto an original PSP

You can't.[2]

[1] https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playsta...

[2] https://www.techspot.com/news/90316-psp-store-officially-clo...

[Uvix]

Per your link, Sony will soon be disallowing new purchases, but has not set a date for disallowing downloads of existing purchases.