Some players will feel cheated. Many PS5, PS4 and other Sony console users will lose digital content purchased from the PS Store that they should have been able to keep forever. In theory at least.
The limits of digital are being felt. Sony has announced that it is permanently removing content purchased from the PS Store. Some players will lose products for which they have paid and which they should have kept “for life”.
Movies and series purchased on the PS Store permanently deleted
Nothing is forever with digital. As you know the PS Store allows you to buy games, DLC but also to buy and rent movies. At least until last year, since Sony announced that it would withdraw from the VOD market in March 2021. However, those who have purchased video content will find themselves aggrieved, since the Japanese publisher will outright remove them. libraries of buyers, who will find themselves with nothing.
More specifically, films produced by Studio Canal will be removed from the PlayStation catalog, even for players who have purchased these films. A decision that goes against the promise made by Sony, which announced last year that ” users will still be able to access film and TV content they purchased from the PS Store. A year later, the situation changed.
Can we really keep digital content for life?
As of August 31, it will no longer be possible to ” view your previously purchased Studio Canal content and it will be removed from your library “Explains PlayStation Germany in a new press release. A change that the publisher explains by an evolution of the license agreements with the providers of this content. For now, only German and Austrian players seem to be affected. It is not known if this will extend to other territories or not, but France could be concerned in the future.
It does not show, but it will still be more than 300 purchased films and series that will simply be deleted from the PS5 and PS4 of users who have nevertheless spent money. This once again raises the question of ownership of digital content, which should in theory be able to be kept for life. But nothing is forever in the happy digital world and that could prove worrying for games purchased digitally from the PS Store and other platforms in the years to come.