Sony to shut PlayStation Store for PS3, PSP, and Vita

The Playstation store will no longer be accessible through PlayStation 3 consoles from July 2, and will shutter a month later for PSP and PS Vita.

Sony have announced they will be closing their digital stores for the PlayStation 3, PSP and PS Vita this year. This announcement comes eight years after the release of the PlayStation 4, and four months since the launch of the PlayStation 5. 

From 2 July 2021 onwards, the Playstation store will no longer be accessible through PlayStation 3 consoles. Just a month later on 27 August, the store will shutter for PSP and PS Vita.

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Jini Maxwell is a writer and curator who lives in Naarm. They are an assistant curator at ACMI, where they also host the Women & Non-binary gamers club. They write about videogames and the people who make them. You can find them on Twitter @astroblob