Sony Is Making It Harder To Buy Digital PS3 And Vita Content On October 27

@johnny0779: You can use your debit or credit card to buy PSN cards. This is fake outrage and no surprise to see you're a part of it.

@johnny0779: You can. Just add funds via any other PS console or PC and then purchase on the PS3/Vita. It's cumbersome, but i can imagine Sony is trying to simultaneously appease its customers while closing off vectors for intrusion.

@gamerboy100: I've got a funny feeling it has something to do with trying to funnel more players into PS Now for older games. Why settle for a one-time purchase when they can charge players indefinitely for a subscription?

Security may be a part of it too, but I don't believe for one second that maximizing profit isn't a factor.

@gamerboy100: Because Sony is hellbent on killing off their old consoles and herding people into purchasing new ones.

@gamerboy100: Security is almost certainly the cause. It's the same reason they were going to shut the stores down. This old store and console hardware does not support modern handshake and encryption standards, so it cannot maintain an acceptable level of security for the modern age. This likely includes support for TLS 1.2, which isn't even the newest version.

Adding security code must be done on a low level and is quite challenging and expensive. Additionally, modern security can require the use of TPM chips -- dedicated hardware that verifies hardware identity and stores cryptographic keys.

While annoying, this sounds like a reasonable compromise to me. Handling the financial transactions on a more secure device and leave the store open is preferred to removing the stores.

@naomha1: This is a fact Naomha..

I noticed this with Batman Arkham Origins on Xbox360.

i was blown away by how much stable and smoother the frames felt on the 360 version.. So i switched to HDMI-1 and played it on xbox1 and confirmed this...

Funny thing is my brother was trying to tell me this about PS4/PS3 games for awhile..

Whoever has a PS3 or Xbox360 should test this for themselves..

~i remember trying to play KOTOR2 on xbox and the words in dialog were in weird Klingon symbols thus making and social of the game unplayable which kinda kills the whole game.. It kinda proved they never tested the game once..