Sony Strips Cloud Gaming From PC In Sudden PlayStation Plus Shift

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Sony’s love affair with PC gaming didn’t last long, with the company pledging to return to a strategy driven by PlayStation console exclusives earlier this year. As part of its efforts to step back from providing its games or services on the platform, the company has announced that it plans to sunset the PlayStation Plus app next month.

News of the app’s impending demise was shared in a PlayStation blog post. According to Sony, “less than 0.4%” of users who are subscribed to PlayStation Plus Premium, which is the subscription tier needed for cloud streaming games, regularly accessed the service using the PC app. By no longer supporting the app, the company will be able to “focus on enhancing high-quality experiences that more of our members want to use.”

With this move, Sony is cutting off one of the easiest ways players could access the PlayStation games library without having...

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