Christian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Today, Jim Ryan, president, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, announced that the store PlayStation Store - which currently offers its service for the older PlayStation 3 consoles (launched in 2006), the PlayStation Vita (2011) - will continue to operate.
Upon further reflection," Ryan says, "it's clear that we made the wrong decision here," referring to the announcement of the closing of the PlayStation Store on July 2 for the PlayStation 3 and for the PlayStation Vita on August 27, which will only be effective for the PlayStation Portable.
The decision comes with criticism of Sony Interactive Entertainment, especially its executive management, for making the decision to close the PlayStation Store on those legacy platforms, which would mean that access to all video game development from the past 15 years would be lost.
Another criticism opened the debate of planned obsolescence for current and previous generation consoles produced by Sony, after it was discovered that both as digital and physical licenses - video games - would lack functionality once the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5 could no longer keep track of the time and date after the CMOS battery power runs out in the future and cannot connect to the PlayStation Store due to its eventual shutdown.
This deliberate failure on Sony's part was proven by Spawn Wave, who set about the task of disassembling a PlayStation 4 only to discover that the device "could be rendered unusable years later".
In the video, it is shown that after removing the battery that keeps the internal clock running - emulating its lack of power - from the game console, the device loses the ability to run any physical software or software purchased through the PlayStation Store to emulate a scenario where the service has been interrupted as it was originally planned to do with the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Store Vita.
