Sony will retire the PlayStation Plus app on PC from 10 December, the company said in a note at the end of its November Game Catalog post on the PlayStation Blog, published on 10 November. “We wanted to let you know that from December 10, we will be retiring the PlayStation Plus app on PC,” the post said.
The reason Sony gave is usage. “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,” the post said. “As a result, the PlayStation Plus cloud streaming app on PC will no longer be available.” The company added that it regularly reviews what it offers “to ensure we are focusing on experiences our members value most.”
The app is the PC client that let PlayStation Plus Premium members stream certain games to a computer rather than to a console. It is a cloud streaming client only, and the 0.4 percent figure covers members eligible to use it.
Two official dates, a day apart
Sony has published two dates for the same change. The blog post says the retirement takes effect from 10 December. The company’s support page for discontinued apps, features and services, under the heading “PS Plus PC App Decomission”, says: “As of 11th Dec 2026 the PlayStation Plus: PC App will be decommissioned.” Sony has not published anything reconciling the two.
What ends is access to the app itself. The change “does not affect PlayStation Plus memberships or benefits available on PS5 and PS4 consoles,” according to the blog post, so a Premium subscription continues as before on console hardware. Sony said it will contact the people who used the app: “We appreciate everyone who used the app on PC and will be notifying affected users directly.” The support notice says customers will receive an email advising them of the content changes.
Sony has not said how many accounts that notification will reach. The only number attached to the decision is the share of eligible Premium members using the app, which the company put at less than 0.4 percent.
Console and Portal streaming are not affected
Cloud streaming itself is not being withdrawn. The support notice says the change “does not affect cloud streaming on PS5 and PS4 consoles, or accessed via PlayStation Portal remote player.” Premium members who stream on a console, or who stream to the PlayStation Portal, keep that access after the PC app stops working.
The PC app was the route to that streaming tier on a computer, without a console in the room. From 10 December the remaining paths are a PS5, a PS4 or the Portal.
Sony attaches two caveats to streaming in the same November post. Game Catalog and Premium lineups “may differ by region”, and the digital PS5 games a member can stream from their own library “will vary over time, region, and country”.
The notice arrived inside a monthly lineup post
Sony did not issue the news separately. It sits at the foot of the monthly Game Catalog announcement, after the list of titles joining the service. That lineup is headed by Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Atomfall and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, with Soul Reaver 2 and Freedom Wars Remastered added to PlayStation Plus Premium. The November additions are available to play from 17 November unless otherwise noted, and several, including Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, MotoGP 26 and Cricket 26, are dated 24 November in the US and the UK.
The Verge, reporting the retirement on 10 November, linked the decision to earlier reports that Sony is pulling back from PC and no longer plans to release PC ports of PlayStation exclusives. That is the outlet’s framing of the wider picture rather than a reason given by Sony. The company’s stated grounds for removing the app are the usage figure and a decision to concentrate on services more members use.
The same support page carries Sony’s other withdrawals. It says the PlayStation Store will close on PS3 and PS Vita starting July 2027, because those consoles “can no longer support the updated commerce, payment, and security needed to keep PlayStation Store operating reliably on those devices.” It also says Trend Micro’s Kids Safety and Web Security services on PS4 stopped accepting new purchases on 25 August 2026 and will be discontinued on 25 August 2027, and that server support for Destruction AllStars shuts down on 25 November 2026 at 00:00 UTC.
The page lists one further change to the subscription itself: from January 2026, PS4 titles are being added less regularly to the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineups and Game Catalog updates. Sony has said nothing more about the PC app beyond the blog note and the support entry.