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 curator at ACMI, and an award-winning videogame journalist. They curated ‘Honk: Untitled Goose Exhibition,’ co-curate Gay24, a monthly film night showcasing rare, radical and archival queer films. Jini is currently co-curating a major videogame exhibition at ACMI.