Sony US to shut down some servers
Roughly a dozen for the gallows.
Sony America is pulling the online server plug on some of its old PS2 and PSP games.
Support for around a dozen titles will end on 30th June, according to dbTechno.
The better known titles are Lemmings on PS2 and PSP, plus Everybody's Golf and Jak X on PS2.
Sony Europe was unavailable for comment.
The full list of games losing online support is below.
PS2 Games
- Amplitude
- Destruction Derby Arenas
- Everybody's Golf
- EyeToy Chat
- F1 '04
- Jak X
- Lemmings PS2
- My Street
- Syphon Filter Omega Strain
- This is Football 2004
- This is Football 2005
- Twisted Metal: Black Online
PSP Games
- Lemmings
- World Tour Soccer 2
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also, Amplitude had online support? How?
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Yes.
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what so EA can still run their own survers anyway and close them down to force people into buying the latest version of their sports games
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It may surprise and disappoint you to learn that MS occasionally close down five year old servers as well...
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edit: "It may surprise and disappoint you to learn that MS occasionally close down five year old servers as well... "
Like which game ?
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Wait, I don't play that on a Sony system. My bad.
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XBL is a great service though and I fully understand why some people want to pay to get a better client-implementation (in-game friendslist, etc.) but if/when PS3 gets in-game frendslist and messaging in addition to Home (something MS doesn't have anything similar to) - XBL will get under more pressure for making their service free allso. SteamWorks will also put more pressure on MS from the PC side. It's just a question of time before XBLA will be free.
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Regarding PSN/Home, it will be fine, I guess..., what bothers me is that "to be" thing, it's always something that should/probably/some day happen... . I suppose actually delivering is where the money pot is, talk is easy.
Maybe because I'm an atheist, maybe is due to "4d gaming"; "toy story graphics"; and perls alike (from all companies, mind you), I need to see first.
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I agree... in-game friendslist and messaging should have been there on day one 1½ years ago (especially since Xbox 360 was out 1 year before PS3). But I'm just glad Sony are working on improving the PS3 features (not just PSN specific) and give owners new stuff and services for free.
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They were first out the door with the console online service and convinced many people to start paying.
So, they have already made a lot of money with it (I assume) which has, for instance, helped them offset the losses on hardware etc.
Whether they make it free sometime in the future or not, it was still a very smart move by MS.
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"0.15 Eur/day (1/2 a cup of cofee). "
30c for a cup of coffee?!? Can I move to your country? Here in Ireland you'd be lucky to get a cup of coffee for less than 1.50 euro. And it bloody well snowed last night. Bloody weather.
Anyhoo, did Sony tell us that it was for our convenience? Or is this another attempt to get people to buy more PS3 games (like removing the backwards compatability from PS3s)?
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I have no problem with Sony taken down these old servers, but there's even content on the PSN that's already been stripped off after just a few weeks. As far as I'm aware the only demo to disappear from Xbox Live is the Saints Row, it went away with a lot of the DLC, but even then, it seems to be some kind of error.. I don't really see how anyone can compare PSN to Xbox Live, especially as it's only £40 a year, less if you know where to look.
Games like Metal Gear Online were shut down really quite quickly on the PS2, due to a lack of people using them, but with the 360 I can still play games that were unpopular like Perfect Dark Zero, without fear of it suddenly disappearing. If the new Metal Gear Online bombs, just how long will Sony keep it going?
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They don't need to as it will hardly turn Live-lovers away from MS's service. But that's not the point of Home. It's to attract the Habbo Hotel lovers to consoles. It might succeed or it might not, but it's one of Sony's initiatives to get PS3 into the mainstream. As such it's something MS should worry about immensely as that's what they're failing to achieve with 360.
"I don't really see how anyone can compare PSN to Xbox Live, especially as it's only £40 a year, less if you know where to look."
Yeah, people should stop doing that. They're different services for different audiences and shouldn't be constantly compared. It's nice if Sony can include some of the better Live features but not al all costs (and the same will probably go the other way as PSN takes shape more and more).
"but there's even content on the PSN that's already been stripped off after just a few weeks."
Demos sometimes get removed but nothing else to my knowledge. Don't really see the problem of that as most of the time they're pointless anyway. But I agree it would be nicer if everything stayed on there perpetually.
"If the new Metal Gear Online bombs, just how long will Sony keep it going?"
Sony doesn't 'keep it going', that's Konami's decision.
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you're a cock!!!
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As long as microsft charge for playing games online I will never buy an xbox, it's not the price it's the principle.
What really? Why not just buy one and then not subscribe to Live? You're missing out on some great entertainment.
I mean Sony have done lots of things to piss people off over the last few years but it wouldn't probably stop most people from buying a PS3 would it?
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A friend of mine looks at it this way: Ever since he got WoW he never got any other games anymore (nor played his other console or PC games) so in the end he spent significantly less money overall on gaming...
He did get a Wii in between but just for Zelda and has recently bought a PS3 for GT5p (the GT games were basically the only ones he played on PS2). It seems the WoW magic is wearing off.
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Xbox live has had dedicated server support for quite some time. I know a lot of people think it's only Peer to Peer but that decision is up to the developer/publisher. If they want to only use the peer to peer setup they can but games like Front Line, Halo 3, COD4 and a few others they use dedicated servers.
Also we need to ask ourselves why most cross platform games seem to have more problems on the PSN then Xbox live but thats another discussion.
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[link url=http://uk.pl aystation.com/help-support/ps2/guides/detail/item97821/Suppo rt-for-online-game-features/
]http://uk .playstation.com/help-support/p...[/link]
Does the us even run these games?
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you're a chick!!!