{"id":125228,"date":"2022-05-30T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125228"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:55:38","slug":"sony-plans-the-end-of-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/125228-sony-plans-the-end-of-ps4","title":{"rendered":"Sony plans the end of PS4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sony.com\/en\/SonyInfo\/IR\/library\/presen\/irday\/pdf\/2022\/GNS_E.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest financial presentation<\/a><\/strong> last week, Sony revealed that title releases for PS4 will be gone by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>PS4 games will still be purchasable, but Sony will stop developing new games that are supported on this platform.<\/p>\n<p>The Company added that it will promote the PS5 as its primary hardware and half of its gaming revenue will stem from PS5, while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125189-sony-expects-r4-7-billion-in-revenue-from-pc-games-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PC and mobile sales will account for the rest of its income.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s plans to discontinue new title releases on PS4 shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise, as 2025 would mark the twelfth-year anniversary since the PS4\u2019s release in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the Company is still manufacturing and releasing games for the PS4 \u2014 including this year\u2019s biggest PlayStation title, <em>God of War: Ragnar\u00f6k.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sony will probably make a bigger announcement related to the end of the PS4&#8217;s lifecycle closer to 2025, so there is no concern for those who use the console just yet.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Read: <\/strong><a title=\"Permalink to Several PlayStation franchises to be adapted into series and movies\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125203-several-playstation-franchises-to-be-adapted-into-series-and-movies\" rel=\"bookmark\">Several PlayStation franchises to be adapted into series and movies<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony revealed that it plans to discontinue PS4 title releases by 2025 \u2014 here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":125229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[19737,1870,1853,71],"class_list":["post-125228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-gmaing","tag-playstation","tag-playstation4","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}