Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here. In an Apblog post here PlayStation explained that the store will continue to operate contrary to their initial announcement: “Recently, we notified players that PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita devices was planned to end this summer. Because it is all sadly coming to an end.” Make sure you play all of your childhood games before its too late.

The posts ( here, here, here, here) show a TikTok video of the controller and server, with captions saying, “Playstation 3 servers are shutting down forever on june 3rd 2021. However, this only applied to the store, not the servers, and PlayStation has since gone back on the decision, meaning that both the store and the servers will continue to be operational. A video falsely claiming that people will never be able to play PlayStation 3 again after June 2021 started circulating on social media after PlayStation announced that the store for PS3, where users can download games etc., would close in the summer.