Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it will stop providing the PlayStation Plus app to PC users starting December 10. The app was available to eligible PlayStation Plus Premium members, but actual usage accounted for less than 0.4% of eligible members.
Adam Michel, Senior Director of Content Acquisition and Operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment, stated that the company regularly reviews its existing services to focus resources on high-quality experiences valued by members. This adjustment is based on that principle.
This shutdown has also sparked discussions about Sony's PC business strategy. Bloomberg previously reported that Hermen Hulst, head of the PlayStation Studios Business Group, told employees that Sony's large narrative-driven games would no longer launch on PC and would instead become PlayStation console exclusives. Shuhei Yoshida, former head of Sony Interactive Entertainment's Worldwide Studios, had also suggested that the company might re-emphasize its platform business.
However, Sony has not publicly confirmed a systematic shift in its overall PC strategy. Claims about a slowdown in first-party game ports and a tendency toward console exclusivity remain interpretations by media based on various signs; one cannot conclude that Sony will fully exit the PC market solely based on the shutdown of the PC version of the PlayStation Plus app.