PlayStation Store
digital media store
PlayStation Store (PS Store) is a digital distribution service for users of Sony's PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita/PlayStation TV, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 game consoles via PlayStation Network. The PlayStation Store was previously made available on PlayStation Portable. It will shut down for PS3 and Vita on July 2027.
The store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge. Available content includes full games, add-on content, playable demos, themes and game/movie trailers.
History
Following feedback from many PlayStation Network users, a redesigned version of PlayStation Store was launched on April 15, 2008, via a firmware update. The new design was OS based rather than the previous Store's web-based design enabling the Store to process information more quickly.
A minor update to the store was released during Sony's E3 2009 press conference. This update makes the top page rotate pictures (including their links) regularly, and changes the navigation sounds.
In September 2009, Sony made major games available to purchase on the store.
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This entry incorporates text from “PlayStation Store” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.