Sony has announced that the PlayStation Plus PC app is going away on December 10th. The app is reportedly being shut down in order to focus on console users.
Sony claims the decision is justified by so few eligible PlayStation Plus Premium members actually using the app – namely less than 0.4%.
Shutting it down “allows us to focus on enhancing high-quality experiences that more of our members want to use.”
The move will also result in the shutting down of PlayStation Plus cloud streaming on PC – making gaming much more difficult to stream when away from one’s console.
The news comes just a few months after Sony backed out of releasing PC ports of PlayStation exclusives for similar reasons with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Herman Hulst saying the company’s PC ports were inconsistent and didn’t make enough money.
While a handful of major games did make the jump to PC including “The Last of Us,” “Spider-Man” and “God of War,” many titles failed to make the leap including the early “Uncharted” and “Infamous” games, “Bloodborne,” “Shadow of the Colossus,” “Astro Bot,” “Demon’s Souls,” “Ghost of Yotei,” “Saros” and more.
At the same time, cloud gaming is becoming more restrictive by nature with Microsoft imposing just 15 hours of game time per month on Xbox Cloud Streaming unless further money is spent beyond the regular Game Pass Ultimate.
Even Nvidia’s GeForce Now also has time limits, but a much more generous 100 hours per month.
