These are the 138 games that will be lost once PS3, PSP and PS vita stores close

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Sony announced last month that the online stores for PS3, PSP and PS Vita would close later this year. It was upsetting news for PlayStation fans and game preservationists, but now at to the lowest degree we know which titles may exist lost forever.

VGC undertook an analysis, and discovered that there are 138 digital PlayStation exclusives that are non bachelor on other platforms. Once the PS3, PSP and PS Vita stores close, these games will exist effectively inaccessible.

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On July two, both the PS3 and PSP stores volition shut. The PS Vita store closure will follow on August 27. Sony has not taken any steps to allow players to purchase titles for these platforms in the time to come.

Interestingly, some of the soonhoped-for-inaccessible games include first-political party PlayStation exclusives. Sony helped develop Infamous: Festival of Claret, Tokyo Jungle and MotorStorm RC, among others.

Other notable titles seemingly dissipating into the ether include Echochrome II, Lumines Supernova, The Terminal Guy, Rain, Trash Panic, PixelJunk Racers, Murasaki Baby, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Boxing-Cars and Super Stardust Delta. Other titles, such every bit Soul Cede Delta on PS Vita, had digital-only releases in North America. However, English-language physical cartridges came out in Asian territories, and are available for import.

The good news is that users who have already bought games will notwithstanding have access via their downloads lists. But one time the stores officially close, piracy volition likely increase on older PlayStation platforms. Information technology'southward non something we condone, just it'due south hard to see an alternative.

Of course, even if these games are going away at present, they could come back at a later engagement. Developers and publishers could always re-release these titles on other platforms, such as the Nintendo Switch, mobile devices, or even the PS5 and Xbox Series X.

Sony's motility is surprising, especially compared to the preservationist strategy that Microsoft has employed. Certain games from the original Xbox are playable on Xbox Series 10, often with visual enhancements. That'southward not the example with PS5.

Sony's latest motility might squander some of the goodwill that the company built up during the PS4 era. PS5 restocks are still well-nigh-impossible to detect, and the latest store closures have done little to quell the need for popular games.

The total list of games affected is below:

PS3

Armageddon Riders
Boom Factor
Bomberman Ultra
Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Hard disk
Catan
Comet Crash
Crash Commando
Datura
Swallow Them!
Echochrome Ii
Funky Lab Rat
Hamster Ball
Loftier Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition
Loftier Velocity Bowling
Infamous: Festival of Blood
Kung-Fu Live
The Last Guy
Legasista
Linger in Shadows
Lumines Supernova
Magic Orbz
Magus
Novastrike
PixelJunk 4am
PixelJunk Racers
Planet Minigolf
Punisher: No Mercy
Rain
Savage Moon
Spelunker Hard disk
Super Rub a Dub
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars
Tales from Infinite: Nigh a Blob
Trash Panic
Wakeboarding Hd

PS Vita

Battle Rockets
Bodycheck
Boss!
Breakquest Actress Development
Chronovolt
Coconut Dodge Revitalised
Dice!Die!Die!
Earth Defense force Forcefulness 2017 Portable
Ecolibrium
Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims Hard disk!
Flying Hamster Hd
Frobisher Says!
Furmins
The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character
Indoor Sports World
Jungle Rumble Liberty Happiness and Bananas
Kilka Card Gods
Knobswitch
Lemmings Touch
Allow's Fish! Hooked On
Licky The Lucky Cadger Lives Again
Magical Vanquish
Malicious Rebirth
Maliya
Men'southward Room Mayhem
Monsterbag
Murasaki Baby
Nekoburo Cats Block
Ninja Usagimaru: Two Tails of Risk
Open Me!
Orgarhythm
Pinball Heroes Complete
PlayStation Vita Cliff Diving
PlayStation Vita Fireworks
PlayStation Vita Table Soccer
PulzAR
Puzzle by Nikoli V Slitherlink
Puzzle by Nikoli V Sudoku
Reel Angling Masters Challenge
Ring Run Circus
Run Like Hell!
Sketchcross
Sokoban Side by side
Squares
Stardrone Farthermost
Stranded a Mars Adventure
Sumioni: Demon Arts
Super Stardust Delta
Surge Palatial
Tabular array Ice Hockey
Table Mini Golf
Table Meridian Racing
Tabular array Superlative Tanks
The Hungry Horde
TXK
Vitamin Z
Z-Run

PS3 and PS Vita

Bentley'due south Hackpack
Big Sky Infinity
Deathmatch Village
Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock
Foosball 2012
Germinator
Gravity Crash
Motorstorm RC
Ms Germinator
Murasaki Mist Akara's Journey
When Vikings Assault!

PSP

101-in-ane Megamix
Ape Quest
Armored Core: Terminal Raven Portable
Armored Core: Silent Line Portable
Armored Core 3 Portable
Beats
Black Rock Shooter – The Game
Display: The Dark Revenant
Carnage Heart EXA
Cho Aniki Goose egg
Cladun: This is an RPG!
Fauna Defense
Ruby-red Room: Reverse
Dissidia 012 Prologus: Final Fantasy
Go! Puzzle
Gravity Crash Portable
Hot Shots Shorties Bluish Pack
Hot Shots Shorties Green Pack
Hot Shots Shorties Ruddy Pack
Hot Shots Shorties Yellow Pack
I am an Air Traffic Controller Airport Hero Tokyo
Kurulin Fusion
LocoRoco: Midnight Carnival
NeoGeo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting
No Heroes Allowed!
Numblast
Patchwork Heroes
Piyotama
Roughshod Moon: The Hera Campaign
Super Stardust Portable
Susume Tactics!
Talkman Travel: Paris
Talkman Travel: Rome
Talkman Travel: Tokyo
Thexder Neo

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