Digital Eclipse is an industry specialist when it comes to gathering up old games and polishing them to prepare for a re-release, usually as part of a new collection. The Toy Story games will be the next ones to get the Digital Eclipse treatment, which is why anything included in the upcoming releases was quietly delisted from all storefronts this week.
Toy Story: Retro Roundup and Toy Story 3 Complete Edition will both be released on October 15, 2026. The former is a collection of five classic Toy Story games, while the Complete Edition is a remaster of what many consider to be the best Toy Story game ever made.
Push Square noticed that on September 29, Toy Story 3 was removed from the PlayStation Store. Not only that, but also Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Toy Story 2, both of which were available because they were added to PS Plus Premium’s Classics Catalog.
Bad news if you were playing them through Plus too, by the way, as the delisting means they have also been unceremoniously pulled from the Classics Catalog. It’s not just PlayStation, though. Until yesterday, the original version of Toy Story 3 was also available on Steam and through the Xbox Store. However, the game has also been delisted on those storefronts.
The reason, while frustrating, is obvious. With a collection that puts all of those old games a little over two weeks away, and a remaster of Toy Story 3, Disney wants to remove the old versions from all digital storefronts. From now on, when people search for those games, Disney wants the new, updated versions to be the only ones available. Not only are they more polished, but they’ll cost more too.
If you already own the games on any platform, you don’t have to worry. They have not been taken from you. The only people who no longer have access to the games that did up until two days ago are the ones who were playing them through PS Plus.
For what it’s worth, the Retro Roundup collection and Toy Story 3’s complete edition both look like they’re going to be pretty great. Digital Eclipse doesn’t typically miss when it comes to this sort of thing, and I don’t doubt for a second that the remaster, in particular, will be the best way to play Toy Story 3 moving forward.
In an era where game preservation is having a brighter spotlight shone on it than ever before, however, it’s frustrating that the original versions of the game can’t co-exist alongside their replacements. Odds are most people who don’t already own the games will choose a collection or a remaster over the originals anyway. Perhaps it’s the fear from publishers that more casual consumers might get confused and buy the wrong version that fuels this need to delist games when newer versions or collections are on the horizon.
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