Sony to shut down some PSP and PS2 online gaming servers

Posted Apr 4, 2008 at 5:45PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News, Titles, Games Tags: Golf, PS2, Sony

If you frequent the PS2 and PSP online gaming servers, you may want to play the online modes for all their worth since you're not going to see them anymore after a couple of months. As it turns out, Sony will shut down some online gaming servers for some PS2 and PSP games effective June 30.

Check out the list of games that will be affected:

PlayStation 2

Amplitude
Destruction Derby Arenas
EverybodyÂ’s Golf
EyeToy Chat
F1 Â‘04
Jak X
Lemmings PS2
My Street
Syphon Filter Omega Strain
This is Football 2004
This is Football 2005
Twisted Metal: Black Online

Of course, you can always resort to the offline game modes so you can still have your own piece of action from the games mentioned above, with the exception of EyeToy Chat and Twisted Metal: Black Online. The two titles do not come with offline modes, so gamers who are attached to them will have to say bye-bye to them come June 30.

Via Official Sony Help and Support

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If not enough people play those particular games online, Sony (and other companies) cannot afford to pay to maintain the servers.

Generally when a game is out of print (ie not being sold new anymore) every day the company keeps its servers online, is another day of lost money. They have to balance this with the bad press they get when they close a server, and keep it up as long as it still has a large enough following.

It does suck when the game still has a small but loyal following, that just happens to be too small to make it worth keeping the servers up.

# Figures... — akadewboy 2008-04-04 22:00

I guess there's always Ad-Hoc games and Xlink Kai.

# DAMN IT! — mr.x256 2008-04-05 01:30

I'm really going to miss Syphon Filter.

It is impossible to finish the game without completeing the online missions.

Too bad for al the people who buy a second hand copy.

And this is a 'SONY Bend' game too.

# .. — Binary 2008-04-05 06:23

well I guess I have to throw away Twisted Metal: Black Online. unless good people with the PS2 emulator or Modchippers fix it so we can play online again.

# SEE... — omegaridley 2008-04-05 14:24

THis is why I hate sony, the PSP is great, when its hacked!!!

they are shutting down the twisted metal:Black online, and its an online game, we bought it for online.

its so sad!!! F*ck u sony!!!!!!!!!!! !

# F*** — Metal Jody 2008-04-05 16:20

I thought SF:Logan's Shadow was counted in the list. I'd be f***ing pissing my d*** off. Sony better not add on to the PSP list.

# Hmm... — Jusor 2008-04-05 16:28

I wonder what might be the reason for them to do so?

# Um... — jkoz 2008-04-05 22:07

Money? Der der der....

# Downloadable maps — Henkibojj 2008-04-06 11:12

Lemmings has downloadable maps, I believe. No head-to-head multiplayer as in the good old Lemmings for SNES.

# . — Addy771 2008-04-07 05:08

It would make more sense if Sony would release the server software when they close a server, so people can host their own servers.

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