I'm John.

And hello, everyone. My name is Jonathan Dormbush and this is podcast beyond episode 697 of

IGN weekly PlayStation show where we have a lot of PlayStation news to talk about this

week. So without further ado, I think we should jump right into it. We're joined this

week by Brian Altana.

PlayStation news and Max Goville.

Yes, it's back. The news. The facts about the world of the PlayStation.

We're off to the races. I love it. No, there's actually quite a bit to talk about this

week, including some surprising turns by Sony, some leaked information about maybe a Sony

PlayStation past, but not a game past that you might be expecting. Some initial thoughts

on return and a lot more, but let's jump in with the the biggest decision of the week

that Sony has publicly made, which is that they have announced that they are reversing

course on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita stores and they will continue to sell games

on those stores. After all, Jim Ryan in a blog post on the PlayStation blog announced

that they reverse course by saying, quote, upon further reflection, however, it's clear

that we made the wrong decision here. So today, I'm happy to announce that we will be keeping

the PlayStation store operational for PS3 and PS Vita devices. PSP will also be closed

though on July 2nd as planned. When we initially came to the decision to end purchasing support

for PS3 and Vita, it was born out of a number of factors, including commerce support challenges

for older devices and the ability for us to focus more of our resources on newer devices

where a majority of our gamers are already playing. We see now that there are many of you

are incredibly passionate about being able to continue purchasing classic games on PS3

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