2026 is quickly approaching like a cruise missile over the horizon, and with it comes an vital reminder: PS4 video games will not be included within the month-to-month PlayStation Plus Important freebies.
Okay, earlier than we go any additional, let me dispel any fears: PS4 video games are usually not being faraway from PlayStation or something insane like that. And there’ll nonetheless be PS4 titles within the sport catalogue which is obtainable on the dearer PlayStation Plus Additional tier.
However what is going on is that starting in January 2026, the “free” video games that PlayStation offers out each month to everybody who has PlayStation Plus Important will not have PS4 titles – it’ll be PS5 video games solely. So you probably have a PS4 and have been subscribed to the bottom tier purely for the month-to-month video games, it may be time to ditch it utterly and even transfer as much as the subsequent tier.
In equity to PlayStation, this transformation was really introduced in the beginning of 2025, giving us a complete yr to get used to the thought.
‘As a lot of our gamers are presently enjoying on PS5 and have shifted towards redeeming and accessing PS5 titles from the Month-to-month Video games and Recreation Catalog profit, PlayStation Plus can be evolving with this pattern and can deal with providing PS5 titles by the Month-to-month Video games and Recreation Catalog profit beginning January 2026,” mentioned Sony on the time.
Thoughts you, regardless of what Sony says, there’s really lots of people nonetheless on PS4. Again in Might of 2024, for instance, Sony’s personal numbers confirmed that their month-to-month energetic consoles have been evenly cut up between PS4 and PS5. Since then, Sony has stopped giving actual numbers, sadly. Their newest chart from June of this yr exhibits 124m month-to-month customers, and it seems that the PS4 nonetheless makes up roughly a 3rd of them, in order that’s round 40m.
So, why the change? It’s really laborious to say. With so many individuals on PS4, it’s clear that persons are much less inclined than ever to improve to the most recent technology. However that’s additionally precisely why Sony is doing this: an try and push folks onto PS5, though I extremely doubt this could actually drive anybody to the PS5 at this level.
