PSP will lose ability to access the PSN Store next week!
It has been over 3 years since the last PSP firmware update has been released by Sony. Since their PSP Firmware 6.60, the PSP did not see any news in terms of feature and firmware updates.
Today Sony has send an Email to playstation store users, that the PSP will lose the ability to use the Playstation Store natively via the XMB.
What does this mean?
It basically means that the ability to add content wirelessly from their PSN Store onto your PSP will be removed.
Downloading a newly bought game? Nope. Downloading something from your downloadlist, a game or a DLC you’ve bought in the past? Nope.
Before you are going to burn down their HQ, keep in mind that you are still able to download PSP content via your Computer, be it with or without the MediaGo application, and with your Playstation 3 (implying everyone ownes one).
This change will be pushed at the 15th September 2014, so it is basically next week. It will be a server-side change, so that there will not be a new PSP firmware update, and therefore ‘not updating’ your firmware will not help you to retain the PSN Store access functionality.
Especially as a PSP Go user, this is a massive slap in your face, since you are required to use digital content. If you happen to use a modified PSP Firmware, a so called PSP CFW, then you can use content without downloading it from the PSN Store, be it directly via your PSP or via your Computer.
A PSP CFW can even enable you to play your UMDs at your PSP Go, as long as you are able to dump them via another PSP, one that posesses an UMD drive.
The PS Vita, while technically not really being affected of this change, since it accesses the PS Vita PSN Store via its PSN Store Application, is actually still affected of this change.
Why? Well, if you happen to use the TN-V eCFW at your PS Vita, currently (publicly) supported up to PS Vita firmware 3.01, you are able to access the PSP PSN Store from within the XMB of the TN-V eCFW. Since this change will remove said ability of the PSP, it will also remove the ability to access the PSN Store from the PS Vita PSPemulator.
It is a sad new change, but at least we are (still) able to use the multiplayer functions of PSP games… But who knows for how long…
Source via KINGx.de
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!:
THIS ONLY AFFECTS: EUROPE, OCEANIA, PARTS OF AFRICA & ASIA.
THIS DOESN’T AFFECT THE USA/JAP STORE YET.
Welcome to digital purchasing guys. Your consoles become obsoleted at the end of their lives, as will your purchases in the long run.
Think about this each time you buy anything via digital distribution.
I just took my old psp, wanting to play some games but then I saw that I don’t have any for some reason. So I went on the PSN store and what the… What am I going to do now since I lost my USB cable…
And here I am downloading a game directly from my PSP go through the PSN store, nothing has happened.
NA account is that matters.
I’ve been downloading games for my PSP using the Media Go software for years now, so this doesn’t affect me in any way. Nevertheless, I found out about these changes after purchasing some games on PSN and not being able to download them using Media Go after I installed the new update (the software didn’t say anything about that, I just received a random error.) So I had to look it up and Google and I came across some articles like this one. For people who use the PSP to download games, this measure probably sucks, but the portable console doesn’t have a great processor, so downloading games was probably a pain anyway. Still, it’s a shame that Sony won’t continue supporting that feature anyway.
How can i play online in psp without PSN? Can you do something like making PSN2?
Does anyone still play psp online games if so reply cos i wanna play with someone or message me or email me my email address. Kacper3106@o2.pl
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