PS3 PlayStation Store in 2024: It Still Works But It's Falling Apart

The Xbox 360 marketplace is closing down next week, marking the closure of another legacy console that kicked off the internet connected era. So now if we stroll through the cemetery we have the Wii, Wii U, DS, 3DS, and now Xbox 360. BUT, the PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita is still kicking. Except.. this thing is just falling apart. Games are missing, filters are broke, and we've got almost 400 games that are delisted. Let's go over the state of the Store, and maybe even discuss why Melissa keeps kicking her favorite toy underneath doors that she can't access.

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[KonaSquid]

It became bad when they tried to make it like the PS4 store. I miss how it was before. It was so fast and organized.

[ThunderMS]

RIP to 3DS eShop, Wii U eShop, Xbox 360 Marketplace you all will be missed dearly.

PS3 hang in there old bud

[sarthakbaghla]

The day ps3 stops functioning will be the official end of my Childhood.

[sndrs]

I got a PS3 six months before the PS4 released and the store was unbearably slow back then.

[Simbabweman]

I really miss the old PS3 store. I hated the change to what is now the PS3 and PS4 store. The PS3 version of this also had weird sound effects the PS4 didn't.

The old bright blue and orange bubble tiles aesthetic and sound effects were brilliant. Real shame they changed it and never looked back.

[josetomascamposrobledano]

Be LOUD gamers. I still find myself going back to buy PS3 games online. This year I bought the Resident Evil Umbrella/Darkside Collection after playing around with the idea for basically a decade.

I bought Metal Gear Revengeance during the 2020 quarantine.

And generally speaking it’s the only way for me to guarantee playing a new PS3 game.

Because not every country is a first world and the second hand market can be INSANE!

And even the last PS3 version has a “faulty” disc reader that won’t last forever, so having it digital guarantees a longer play time.

So again, BE LOUD, PROTECT THE STORE LIKE WE DID BEFORE!

[SkilitoPWNS]

Seems like Sony wants us to jailbreak our old consoles

[Tation]

The store where I used to get demos and download DLC. I would spend hours looking at what I can’t buy since I was just a kid. The memories. Thank you to the PS3!

[DHDHDH]

The eu storefront is arguably even worse, especially when trying to search for things like psp and ps1 classics. There are less than ten psp games that are displayed when using filters on the “all games” section.

[Toddfrommario]

Ryan you should plan a community online day of play for ps3!

[mogwai_for_sale]

Thanks to the modding community, nothing is truly coming to an end. PS3 has become incredibly easy to jailbreak and all the software can be obtained via the console itself completely free. We don’t need to rely on Sony any longer to preserve its history.

[VideoGameOwnage]

The big takeaway I didn't know from this video is that the licenses I bought for my PSOne classics bought on PS3 carried over onto PS5. Didn't know that they don't make you repurchase the games. That's cool. I wonder if that works for the PS2 Classics as well.

[MatticusFinch]

PS3 is the last one standing. The only 7th gen store still up and running. Will be a sad day when it shuts down.

[mattvivace]

The ps3 is 18 years old i still got my ps3 all these years i was 11 years old when the console came out now im 29 years old

[ConnorHavok]

It's crazy how some things on the Store are still set at full price, some things being over $100 😭 they need to atleast put everything on a permanent sale or something

[jessepinkman]

Recently just got a PS3 to play GTA4 and Skate 3, looking through the store broke my heart with how rough it is. I remember how amazing it was when it first released. Great video to watch. Im keeping my PS3 until the day i die.

[thekushcompletionist]

My focus is on getting the ps1 classics cause I don't wanna buy the expensive physical versions

[redtail]

And 11 years later and they still havent done anything to make the digital games on it backwards compatible. Like Nintendo screwed over everyone who bought a Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. At least Microsoft kept a library of their store on current Xbox.

[chrisclarke]

Sony has done such a bad job of preserving things that you're better off jailbreaking your PS3 and playing copied games or even just using the emulator on a PC and doing the same

[PlatinumTales]

Something that was glossed over in this video, which makes the PS3 storefront even harder to use, is that it's not as simple as just adding wallet funds to your account to then buy the digital content. You'll receive an error if you have any kind of credit card linked to your PSN account. You have to remove all of your linked cards, then you can purchase your game and you'll have to re add your cards back to your PSN account.