PS Plus Pulls Plug on PC Streaming After Fewer Than 1% Used It
End of the road
by Sammy Barker · Push SquareSony will kill the ability to stream PlayStation games on the PC beginning 10th December, with the platform holder stating fewer than 0.4% of eligible 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 catalogue using a PC app, which will be discontinued next month.
Curiously, this service has always been limited to PS4 and PS3 titles – it never expanded support to the PS5 library.
The pages on PlayStation.com where you used to be able to download the software have already been removed in anticipation.
Writing on the PS Blog, Sony’s Adam Michel said:
“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 PS Plus Premium members (less than 0.4%) using the PS 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 PS Plus cloud streaming app on PC will no longer be available.”
Once upon a time, I did temporarily use PS Now streaming on my laptop when I went through a period where I didn’t have access to my consoles. But I haven’t used the feature since.
I don’t think Sony promoted this particularly prominently, so I expect many fans may only be finding out about it now.
But I think this is probably part of a broader push by the Japanese giant to move its software off PC. Internally, it’s pivoted away from porting its first-party single player games to the platform. Now it’s ceasing streaming as well.
It should be stressed that PS Plus Premium cloud streaming will remain available on the PS5, PS4, and PS Portal. There will also be no changes to Remote Play functionality.
Will you be affected by this at all? Given the numbers touted in Sony’s article, I can’t imagine many of you will have used this.
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[source blog.playstation.com]
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About Sammy Barker
As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
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