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Sony has left the building: Metreon PlayStation Store closing this Summer

Posted Feb 16, 2009 at 4:38AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News Tags: PlayStation Store, San Francisco, Sony

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After nearly a decade of being the one-stop shop for Sony gamers, the PlayStation Store in San Francisco's Metreon will be closing this Summer.

While this is practical news only for San Fran residents, this also means that we won't see PlayStation-specific stores pop up anywhere else if Sony's giving up such a prime location.

The Metreon PlayStation Store opened in 1999, and served as the prime spot for product launches in the West Coast for anything PS-related. Sony explains the reason why they are closing up shop:

Our lease with the Metreon for the PlayStation Store will expire this summer and we have chosen not to renew it. While we are always looking at new avenues for additional retail exposure and space, we felt it best not to continue with a dedicated PlayStation Store at the Metreon at this time.

A specific date wasn't announced by Sony, but the Metreon's management says that the lease on the Sony Style stores in the mall will expire on March 31. There's still the Sony Style stores in a lot of other places, but losing the official PlayStation flagship store (of a fleet of one) is really a loss.

Via GameSpot

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How practical is it to have a Playstation-specific megastore. Anywhere, not just in San Francisco. With the big box brick and mortars often offering better deals that Sony's own stores it is quite questionable. Personally, I have had nothing but a good buying experience from "The Sony Store" but have never visited a Playstation-specific store ever. I sure remember the ps2 launch and ps3 launch coverage at the Metreon and it looked like a Playstation Fan's dream but times are becoming desperate and Sony could not have chosen a better option at this time. This is not something that should be a grave shock, or even disappointment, to gamers - just a harsh reality. I am sure that Sony, along with many others, are gearing heavily towards digital distribution and are banking on it saving them a great deal of money.

I just hope someone gets in there with a nice Digital SLR and photographs the crap out of the place for the memories of the Playstation mega-monument that lasted 10 years.

# Inevitable — SonnySoul 2009-02-16 08:04

All stores will close sooner or later, including food stores such as Asda, Walmart, Tesco etc. It's much cheaper and easier to have online stores. Most of the stores in the UK are online now, but I think the food stores such as the ones mentioned earlier will remain safe for atleast 20 years yet, as the elderly who don't know how to use the internet will still carry on using them. We'll still have a few small shops on street corners for the times when you need milk for the baby etc. but I think all of the big stores will soon be online only.

It's a shame to see the Playstation Store close though, seems like it could have remained as a Playstation monument of some sort, like a miniature Playstation museum.

Ah well, I suppose nothing lasts forever, something all of the X-Box Please Fix Me owners are all too aware of..!

# yessss — DFresh 2009-02-16 08:32

Close down one shop, Open up a thousand!

# Isaac C — sony_player 2009-02-16 09:33

You can always tell an article was written by Isaac because he always paints everything doom and gloom for sony

# Hm — Guest 2009-02-16 09:55

That just means you haven't been reading a lot of my posts on the other blogs ;) I'm kinda gloomy and doomy on a lot of my other articles too.

But seriously, it's not like this is happy news so I can't be all rainbows and unicorns.

# . — Demonsweat 2009-02-16 10:05

I always pass by there on the way to the theaters, but I've never gone inside. It doesn't look all that interesting, honestly. Just another video game story that happens to only sell Sony products.

# ... — Gamester101 2009-02-16 12:14

"I can't be all rainbows and unicorns"

*finds dark corner and cries*

# ... — TheLastGuitarHero 2009-02-16 16:32

Oh yes all gamestops look like that, eh?

# too true... — Shatterdome 2009-02-16 23:17

I have alot of sony product, but avoid the sony store like the plague. It never has deals, and even regular prices are too much. It is better to shop online, or at bestbuy/futureshop...or even walmart.

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