Sony is shutting down its PlayStation Plus cloud streaming PC app

PlayStation Plus cloud Streaming on PC is ending next month

Sony has announced it is retiring its PlayStation Plus app for PC. With the company unveiling no plans to replace the app, it seems clear that PlayStation Plus cloud streaming will no longer be available to PC gamers from December 10th. This was unveiled as part of November’s PlayStation Plus Game Calatlog update.

In the announcement, Sony says only 0.4% of eligible PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers use the service’s PC app. Sony claims that cancelling the app will allow them to focus on higher quality expereinces for more of their members.

While Sony does not publicly disclose its number of PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers, estimates put the number at around 10-11 million subscribers using this tier. If these numbers are accurate, that means around 40,000 PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers use PC cloud streaming. That’s not an insignificant number of people, but small for a PlayStation service.

PlayStation Plus cloud streaming will remain available for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. Only the PC app, and therefore PC streaming, has been axed. From now on, PlayStation Plus cloud streaming will only be available on supported PlayStation devices.

An update to the PlayStation Plus app on PC

We wanted to let you know that from December 10, we will be retiring the PlayStation Plus app on PC.

PlayStation believes in providing high-quality experiences to our players, and we regularly review offerings to ensure we are focusing on experiences our members value most. With a very small number of eligible PlayStation Plus Premium members (less than 0.4%) using the PlayStation Plus app on PC, making this change allows us to focus on enhancing high-quality experiences that more of our members want to use. As a result, the PlayStation Plus cloud streaming app on PC will no longer be available.

This change does not affect PlayStation Plus memberships or benefits available on PS5 and PS4 consoles. We appreciate everyone who used the app on PC and will be notifying affected users directly.

(PlayStation Plus PC was cancelled at the bottom of Sony’s newest PlayStation Plus Blog)

PlayStation Remote Play will remain available on PC

PlayStation’s Remote Play app will remain available on PC. It is a separate application that lets gamers stream games from their PS4 or PS5 to a PC.

With this change to PlayStation Plus on PC, Sony has taken away another way that PC gamers can access PlayStation games. Sony has shifted its focus to console exclusivity, deciding to keep its single-player narrative games as PlayStation console exclusives. This is a dramatic turnaround for Sony, as recent years have seen many of PlayStation’s biggest hits come to PC, albeit with mixed success.

While this change affects a small number of gamers, it still adds up to a lot of people across Sony’s huge subscriber base. No matter how you slice it, Sony is removing a feature people have paid for and is denying PC gamers a legitimate way to access their games.

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