PlayStation 4 games are reportedly losing access to several key services in 2026. The purported move would mark a major acceleration of Sony's efforts to drop its PS4 support.
November 15 will mark the 12th anniversary of Sony's eighth-generation console. While the PS4 is still receiving updates as of 2025, the Japanese gaming giant has been shifting resources away from the system in recent years, signaling plans to fully end its support in the foreseeable future.
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New PS4 Games Reportedly Losing Access to 6 Key Services in 2026
This trend will continue in 2026 with Sony barring new PS4 games from integrating certain legacy PSN features, Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson reports, citing PlayStation documentation said to have been forwarded to some developers. The list of functionalities affected by the purported move comprises six services: Activity Feed Web API, Shared Media Web API, Title Small Storage, Title User Storage, Word Filters, and Users and Profiles. Existing PS4 games utilizing these services will reportedly retain access to them.
PS Plus Is Also Starting to Phase Out PS4 Offerings in 2026
The selective feature discontinuation is expected to come into effect in spring 2026, as per the same source. That timing places it shortly after the previously announced plan to begin phasing out PS4 games from PlayStation Plus, scheduled to start in January. From that point forward, Sony will stop prioritizing PS4 titles for PS Plus subscribers. The existing catalog of third-party games for the last-generation console will eventually be removed from the PS Plus library as well.
Sony's previously confirmed plans and this newly surfaced report both suggest that the company's efforts to end PS4 support will accelerate in 2026. Limiting developers' access to APIs and web services as basic as user profiles and title storage—used for persisting user-specific data such as settings and session buffers—would heavily discourage them from releasing new PS4 games. The removal of such features would likely spell the end of big-budget releases on the console, as well as disincentivize any new multiplayer titles from launching on the device.
PS4 Services Reportedly Being Sunset in 2026
- Activity Feed Web API
- Shared Media Web API
- Title Small Storage (TSS)
- Title User Storage (TUS)
- Users and Profiles
- Word Filters
As things currently stand, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 may be the last AAA game to release on the PS4. And though the console is likely to keep receiving security patches and other minor updates for a while yet, Sony appears prepared to fully pull the plug on it in the coming years, perhaps by the time the PS6 materializes in or around late 2027. The PlayStation maker had already ceased all PS4 production circa 2022—about a year later than initially planned—due to PS5 shortages caused by various supply chain issues originating from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Brand
- Sony
- Original Release Date
- November 15, 2013
- Original MSRP (USD)
- $399.99, €399.99, £349.99
- Operating System
- Orbis OS
- Processor
- Semi-custom 8-core AMD x86-64 Jaguar APU
- Resolution
- 480p - 4K UHD