Will PS4 still work after 2026?
Limited features: Certain online features (such as activity feeds and user profile features) will no longer be supported from 2026. Sony only removed ps4 games from ps plus essential monthly pool. No other change has been done regarding ps4. Sony ending PS4 support does not mean the console is shutting down. PlayStation has announced that PS4 services and support will begin winding down in spring 2026, and it truly feels like the end of an era.By October 2019, PS4 had become the second best-selling PlayStation console of all time, behind the PlayStation 2. Its successor, the PlayStation 5, was released in November 2020.Sony, for obvious reasons, hasn’t provided a window for when the PS6 will come out. Speculation puts the console’s release in 2027, which would be seven years after the release of the PS5, and consoles have generally been on a seven-year cycle.Despite PS4 and PS5 player numbers being nearly equal in 2024, Sony appears to be guiding players toward newer hardware. This follows earlier confirmation that some PS4 games will lose certain PSN features in 2026. PS5 #PS4.