Why PS3, PSP, and Vita Stores Closing Would Be Such a Big Deal - Beyond Episode 693

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of IGN's PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano and Mitchell Saltzman to discuss the report that Sony may be shuttering the PS3, PS Vita, and PSP stores in the coming months. We dive into what the loss of those digital storefronts might mean for a large chunk of PlayStation history, why we hope the decision doesn't come to pass, and what Sony could do to preserve such an important era to PlayStation's history. Then, the cast dives into the surprising announcement that Sony has acquired EVO in a new partnership. We discuss what the acquisition may mean for EVO itself and the fighting community at large, why we think Sony made the deal, and, really, why we hope it means a PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale 2 could actually happen. Plus, we dive into some of the free games coming PlayStation players' way with the Play at Home lineup, the PSVR 2 controllers, and much more!

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0:00.0	music playing
0:10.0	Beyond and hello everyone my name is Jonathan Dormbisch and this is podcast
0:15.0	beyond episode 693 of I.G.N.'s weekly PlayStation show where of course each
0:20.0	and every week we endeavor to be just as long as the Snyder cut will it
0:24.0	happen again you'll have to sit through and find out but of course for
0:28.0	these next four hours are really just 50 minutes I'm joined by Brian
0:32.0	Altona I would do a four hour podcast with you boys that's me too
0:36.0	No, no lie I would do I it's the highest honor you could give us I
0:41.0	appreciate it we're also joined this week by Mitchell Saltsman I and I hope this isn't
0:46.0	breaking hearts but as much as I love you guys I would not do a four hour I've
0:51.0	got stuff to do well you know what this cut will we'll just focus on different
0:56.0	characters will introduce a bunch of new ones that'll be a lot of closure and you know a
1:00.0	lot of open-endedness we can put you in at the very end you can be like a post-credit
1:04.0	stinger perfect that's exactly where I want to be yeah the director's cut of
1:08.0	693 will have the same plot but a very different way it gets there but we'll
1:14.0	give you that episode in another hundred or two hundred episodes anyway of course
1:18.0	though we do actually have quite a bit to talk about this week as of course
1:22.0	is usual for PlayStation most of the PlayStation news broke after we recorded
1:28.0	beyond last week so we'll be doing a bit of catch up on things like some of the
1:32.0	free games you can be looking forward to on PlayStation whether or not you have
1:34.0	PlayStation Plus the news of Sony acquiring EVO and a few other things but the story
1:39.0	I wanted to start off with this week is a report from the gamer this is not a
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