Hot Shots Tennis and MotorStorm: Arctic Edge 'Suspended' from PlayStation Network Because of Hacking Issues

@grbear

Yes, unfortunately one of the trade offs that digital downloads has is that once a company doesn't host the content, say good bye to it. It's a underlying realization that seems to be blurred by the Internets growing sense of entitlement.

Steam could go bankrupt tomorrow if they so chose and peoples $$$ worth of games are dust in the wind. I'm sure people have entire game collections of 100+ games that could be gone tomorrow if the company so chose.

I actually was looking to purchase Motorstorm Arctic Edge...oh well.

alex you so snarky <3

It also sucks for people that purchase these games before and now can't dl them again.

Reason #13 why I havent picked up a vita yet. Waiting for Sony to get a little less anal about everything first.

So what happens to those of us who bought these games on PSN? I have Motorstorm on my PSP so does this mean I can't delete it as there will be no way to download it again?

So Vita's doomed to the same fate as PSP then, if they found an exploit this early on...

"It was as if, like, maybe a hundred or so Hot Shots Tennis fans cried out and were suddenly silenced."

Oh you.

Why am I not surprised by this.

I was actually considering getting Hot Shots Tennis, but I kept putting it off. Guess it will have to wait even longer now... Time to turn to cannibalism to ease my "pain".

Weird

Well that's great. It's not like Motorstorm Arctic Edge was one of the best racing games on the system or anything.

Those thieves!

It's probably not too shocking to learn that Sony is taking a decidedly proactive stance when it comes to ensuring that hackers do not find ways to exploit the company's various pieces of gaming hardware. After all, homebrew downloaders lent a good bit toward the eventual downfall of the PSP, and there was all that PlayStation Networkunpleasantness last year that one can imagine Sony still being a tad sensitive about.

Intriguingly, the company's first documented push against hacking and piracy on the Vita involves two seemingly benign PSP downloadable releases. As of today, Hot Shots Tennis (Everybody's Tennis, hilariously, in Europe) and MotorStorm: Arctic Edge have been "suspended" from the PlayStation Network store. Sony's official line to EuroGamer was that the titles were being pulled for "stability improvement," but it stands to reason that the more likely cause is that both games feature exploits that allow for homebrew programming to be run on the PlayStation Vita while in PSP mode.

No timetable has been given for these games' potential return to the store, which probably sucks for the surely thousands upon thousands of people who were moments away from buying Arctic Edge and Hot Shots Tennis, only to suddenly find themselves denied, and thus suddenly unsure what to do with themselves. Undoubtedly they will now wander the Earth, searching for some kind of meaning in life now that Arctic Edge and Hot Shots Tennis are no longer available for download. Without those games to entertain them, they'll undoubtedly take up with unruly, meth-dealing biker gangs, find work in seedy, Triad-owned strip clubs, and perhaps even dabble in cannibalism, as all wandering souls eventually do.

This blood is on your hands, Sony.