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Sony ‘Retiring’ PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming PC App

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Sony ‘Retiring’ PlayStation Plus Premium Cloud Streaming PC App
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Sony announced it will retire PlayStation Plus cloud streaming PC functionality and the associated app in the November 2026 Game Catalog update on the PlayStation Blog. The last day for that feature is December 10, 2026. However, the support page for it, which included a link to the app download, already returns a 404 error if you attempt to visit it. So it seems subscribers who don’t already have the app won’t be able to grab it again.

The statement in the update explained the reasoning behind the decision. Sony claimed “less than 0.4%” of PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers used the PC app to stream games. As such, it decided to shut it down. This comes following a decision to stop making physical PS5 copies of games.

This means there will be only two means of cloud streaming with PlayStation devices. One will be with the PS5 console itself. The other is with the PlayStation Portal handheld. Both of those require PlayStation Plus Premium to do so, as noted on the official site.

The PlayStation Plus cloud streaming PC app support will end and it will no longer work starting on December 10, 2026.

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Jenni Lada
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Jenni is Editor-in-Chief at Siliconera and has been playing games since getting access to her parents' Intellivision as a toddler. She continues to play on every possible platform and loves all of the systems she owns. (These include a PS4, Switch, Xbox One, WonderSwan Color and even a Vectrex!) You may have also seen her work at GamerTell, Cheat Code Central, Michibiku and PlayStation LifeStyle.