Sony will shut down its PlayStation Plus PC app on Dec. 10
Subscribers who streamed the Premium catalog to a computer without a console lose that option. Sony says fewer than 0.4% of eligible members used it.
The PlayStation Plus app for PC stops working on Dec. 10. Sony announced the change on Nov. 10, at the end of its blog post on the month's game catalog.
The app let Premium-tier subscribers stream catalog games to a Windows PC without owning a PS5 or PS4. Once it goes, cloud streaming from the service is tied to a console.
Sony's reason is low usage: fewer than 0.4% of eligible Premium members opened the app. Retiring it frees the company to focus on experiences more subscribers want to use, it says, and the app "will no longer be available."
Nothing else changes. PlayStation Plus memberships and benefits on PS5 and PS4 stay as they are, and Sony says it will contact app users directly.
The notice does not mention Remote Play, the feature that lets a PC play games from a console left on at home. It also says nothing about refunds for anyone who bought Premium mainly for the PC app, or about any difference in Mexico, where the subscription is billed in pesos.
Anyone relying on the app has until Dec. 10 to finish what they have started in the cloud.
