

So even though we won’t be able to purchase PS Vita games directly, all of these titles will still be available to PS Vita owners to buy long after the Store has been taken offline. When this eventually happens Sony have confirmed that Cross Buy support will be continuing. What this will mean is that at some point in the future, PS Vita and PS3 games will no longer be available for purchase sooner or later. While the planned PlayStation Store closure for earlier this year has had a reprieve, this could happen at any time in the future. Over the last couple of years however, Cross Buy support had been gradually phased out for the PS3 as developers focused mainly on the PS Vita and PS4. On rarer occasions you need to purchase the PS3 or PS4 version to get the Vita version freely. It allowed us to build up vast software collections quickly and easily and at a fraction of the price we would normally have been able to.įor many games, it is a free-flowing deal with games being purchased on any format immediately being available for the others. For those of us with a PS Vita and either a PS3, PS4 or both this was a godsend. The innovation allowing us to buy games on one Sony platform and immediately gaining access to the same game for another platform absolutely free.

One of the greatest concepts to come from Sony was the introduction of Cross Buy.
