Yep. There is always plans to shut the whole thing down eventually, for console stores (the exception maybe being Microsoft?) But you have to do it in phases t

Yep. There is always plans to shut the whole thing down eventually, for console stores (the exception maybe being Microsoft?) But you have to do it in phases to manage the negative feedback. If someone purchases a game on Day 1, you definitely don't want to kill download access on Day 2. So the only way to cleanly phase out is to first shut down any new purchases. Then you have a ~4-5 year window for people to play those games and hopefully give an upper bound for when they won't care about them anymore.