DelistAlert
A preservation app for console and PC gamers that warns you before digital games are delisted, tracks whether your owned-but-digital library is at risk, and helps you decide whether to grab the physical copy before it's gone.
Console and PC gamers worried that their digital game library could shrink overnight when publishers pull titles
- Delisting radar: daily feed of upcoming game removals from PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and Steam storefronts, with date and reason
- Personal library risk score: link your account and see which owned-but-digital titles are at risk of being delisted or losing DLC
- 'Buy it now or wait' advisor: compares physical and digital prices, resale value, and whether the game has been delisted before
- Wishlist alerts: get notified when a wished-for physical game drops below a price threshold or when a digital version is about to vanish
Sony's announcement to cut PlayStation disc production by 2028 is fueling an active public debate about digital ownership, and the local Prince Albert retailer story shows even non-gaming physical-media shops are weighing in on gamer concerns.
Existing archive delistedgames.com has logged 4.8M views / ~2M visitors and still pulls ~118K monthly visits, and 1,000+ PS Store delistings were reported in June 2026, confirming real audience appetite for this information.Delisted Games - Even in the age of digital, nothing lasts forever ↗HypeStat traffic stats for delistedgames.com ↗1,000 PS Games Delisted: Your Rights ↗
Multiple free incumbents cover the archive/news angle (delistedgames.com, ps-shutdowns.com, gertlushgaming.co.uk database, steam-tracker.com, theanomaly.be) but none appears to combine a personal owned-library risk view with proactive push alerts and physical-copy recommendations — leaving a narrower product gap rather than a wide-open one.PS Shutdowns - Track PlayStation Game Shutdowns & Delistings ↗Delisted Games Database: Track Lost Digital History [2026] ↗The Phantom Library: Hidden & Delisted Steam Games ↗
The delistedgames.com Ko-fi page literally says 'if even 0.5% of those visitors were giving just $1 a year the site could…' — strong signal that this audience is notoriously reluctant to pay even small amounts when free alternatives exist; subscription likely converts weakly.Support Delisted Games - Ko-fi ↗Delisted Games homepage ↗
Sony is phasing out PS discs starting January 2028, a major CBC-covered industry shift, and ongoing licensing-driven delistings plus server shutdowns create a multi-year secular tailwind for any preservation/warning tool.Sony to end releasing PlayStation games on disc, earning ire from consumers ↗No discs, more problems: What Sony's all-digital PlayStation means for gamers ↗
Cross-store ownership APIs (PSN library, Xbox entitlements, Steam, Epic, Nintendo eShop) do not expose a clean 'user-owned games' endpoint, so reliable personal-library matching requires fragile scraping plus store-purchase-history exports; price/availability data for the 'buy physical' recommendation layer adds another data pipeline.The Phantom Library: Hidden & Delisted Steam Games ↗