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Electronic Arts is shutting down several PS3 and PS4 games, including Dirt Showdown, Dirt 3, Grid Autosport, and Grid 2, four months earlier than initially announced, with the new shutdown date set for November 8, 2025, leaving players with limited time to complete the games and access DLC.
Ubisoft, in partnership with Atari, announced the re-release of several classic PS2 and PS3 games on modern platforms, including PS5, allowing both nostalgic players and new audiences to experience titles like Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up.
Former PlayStation chief Shawn Layden reflects on the PS3 as Sony's "Icarus" moment, acknowledging it as a learning experience where the company "flew too close to the sun." Despite its initial struggles and high costs, the PS3 eventually became profitable, teaching Sony valuable lessons that influenced the more successful PS4. Layden emphasizes that the PS4's focus on being a top-tier gaming machine, rather than a multimedia device, was key to its success.
PlayStation fans were disappointed after Sony's latest announcement, which included PS3 games Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, led to false hopes of backward compatibility with PS5 and PS4. Instead, these games will only be available via cloud streaming, a feature that many fans dislike. Despite ongoing requests, Sony has not made PS3 backward compatibility a reality, likely due to the PS3's complex architecture.
A lost prototype of the cancelled Timesplitters 4 game from 2008 has been discovered on a PlayStation 3 development kit, with a Reddit user paying $670 to acquire and archive it. The incomplete build has been shared with the gaming community, and footage of the game running on actual PS3 hardware has been confirmed as authentic by Free Radical founder David Doak. This find offers a rare glimpse into gaming history, as efforts to revive the Timesplitters 4 project have faced setbacks in recent years.
A rare PS3 prototype of Free Radical's cancelled TimeSplitters 4 game from 2008 was discovered on eBay and has been dumped online, offering a detailed look at the time-travelling first-person shooter's development. The prototype, dated November 2008, was found on a PS3 devkit and has been successfully archived on the preservation website Hidden Palace. This find comes after the recent release of footage from another cancelled TimeSplitters project, TimeSplitters Next, which was being developed by a reformed Free Radical and was ultimately cancelled in December 2023.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker are rumored to be included in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Volume 2, according to sources. Metal Gear Solid 4, which is not playable on modern PlayStation consoles and has never been ported, would be a significant addition. The first volume of the collection is set to release on October 24, 2023, and will include several remastered versions of previous Metal Gear Solid games.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots assistant producer Ryan Payton revealed that the game was running smoothly on the Xbox 360, despite being a PS3 exclusive. However, the game did not release on the Xbox 360 due to the physical copy requiring multiple discs. Konami recently announced the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater called Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was once "running beautifully and smoothly" on Xbox 360, according to the game's assistant producer Ryan Payton. There was no exclusivity deal to ensure the game was only released on PS3, and the decision instead came down to the choice of disc format used in Microsoft's console. Bringing Metal Gear Solid 4 to Xbox 360 would have required putting the game on numerous discs, something Konami wasn't willing to do. Metal Gear Solid 4 has never been re-released on any other format, meaning it remains a PS3 exclusive to this day.