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

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

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.

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.

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Via GameSpot