Sony will remove the ability to stream PlayStation games to PC starting December 10, with the platform holder reporting less than 0.4% of eligible users. PS Plus Premium subscribers used it.
Members of the manufacturer’s most expensive tier can currently stream and play titles from the PS Plus Premium catalog using a PC app, which will be discontinued next month.
Oddly enough, this service has always been limited to PS4 and PS3 titles – it has never extended support to the PS5 library.
The PlayStation.com pages where you could previously download the software have already been removed in advance.
Writing on the PS Blog, Sony’s Adam Michel said:
“PlayStation believes in delivering high-quality experiences to our players, and we regularly review our offerings to ensure we are focusing on the experiences our members enjoy most. With a very small number of eligible PS Plus Premium members (less than 0.4%) using the PS Plus app on PC, this change allows us to focus on improving the high-quality experiences that more of our members want to use. As a result, the PS Plus cloud streaming app on PC will no longer be available. no longer available.
Once upon a time, I temporarily used PS Now streaming on my laptop when I was going through a period where I didn’t have access to my consoles. But I haven’t used this feature since.
I don’t think Sony has promoted it particularly prominently, so I think many fans are only discovering it now.
But I think it’s probably part of a broader push by the Japanese giant to move its software off PC. Internally, it has abandoned porting its first-party single-player games to the platform. Now the broadcast also stops.
It should be noted that PS Plus Premium cloud streaming will remain available on PS5, PS4 and PS Portal. There will also be no changes to the Remote Play functionality.
Will you be affected by this? Given the numbers presented in Sony’s article, I can’t imagine many of you will have used it.
Gn tech
