{"id":559173,"date":"2026-03-12T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/digital-ps3-vita-games-expiring"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:56:16","slug":"certain-digital-ps3-and-vita-titles-are-expiring-and-no-one-knows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/certain-digital-ps3-and-vita-titles-are-expiring-and-no-one-knows-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain digital PS3 and Vita titles are &#8220;expiring&#8221; and no one knows why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/certain-digital-ps3-and-vita-titles-are-expiring-and-no-one-knows-why.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Some players are reporting that certain PlayStation games like <strong>Chrono Cross<\/strong> are &#8220;expiring&#8221; on PS3 and PlayStation Vita.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition<\/strong> launched earlier this week, but now certain players are claiming that legally purchased, digital versions of PSOne Classics like Chrono Cross and <strong>Chrono Trigger<\/strong> are no longer playable, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/playstation-3-ps3-vita-sony-digital-license-expire-chro-1848770979\">Kotaku<\/a>. Twitter user Christopher Foose <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FooseTV\/status\/1512241522338582535?s=20&amp;t=4HjzNEUu6DilrG0dDjHtpQ\">shared an image<\/a> showing their digital copy of Chrono Cross with an expiry date of 12\/31\/1969, and that the remaining time to play the game had expired, and is no longer playable on PS3 or Vita.<\/p>\n<p>Foose goes on to explain that they had tested Chrono Trigger earlier that day (April 8) on their PS3, and it had run fine and had no expiration date. Talking with the official PlayStation support system did not help with the issue either. And later on, other users showed games like <strong>Final Fantasy IX<\/strong> and <strong>Final Fantasy VI<\/strong> facing the same issue of having an expiry date in the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/digital-ps3-vita-games-expiring\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/digital-ps3-vita-games-expiring\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some players are reporting that certain PlayStation games like Chrono Cross are &#8220;expiring&#8221; on PS3 and PlayStation Vita. Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition launched earlier this week, but now certain players are claiming that legally purchased, digital versions of PSOne Classics like Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger are no longer playable, as reported by Kotaku. Twitter user Christopher Foose shared an image showing their digital copy of Chrono Cross with an expiry date of 12\/31\/1969, and that the remaining time to play the game had expired, and is no longer playable on PS3 or Vita. Foose goes on to explain that they had tested Chrono Trigger earlier that day (April 8) on their PS3, and it had run fine and had no expiration date.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/certain-digital-ps3-and-vita-titles-are-expiring-and-no-one-knows-why\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2990,6865,79,279,3532,844,268,6810],"class_list":["post-559173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-chrono-cross","tag-chrono-trigger","tag-fantasy","tag-jrpg","tag-playstation-vita","tag-ps3","tag-square-enix","tag-story-rich"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Certain digital PS3 and Vita titles are &quot;expiring&quot; 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