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# PlayStation Is Shutting Down the PS Plus App on PC on December 10
- URL: https://averagetechnerds.com/ps-plus-pc-app-shutdown/
- Published: 2026-11-11T06:01:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-11T06:01:14.000Z
- Description: PS Plus Premium stops streaming to PCs on December 10. What changes, what doesn’t, and what to do with your saves before then.
- Author: Victor
- Tags: News, Console Gaming

If you stream PS Plus games on a PC, you’ve got a month left. PlayStation is retiring the PlayStation Plus app on PC from December 10\. It said so at the very end of its November Game Catalog post, under the new games. Hardly anyone used it. Fewer than 0.4% of the Premium members who could, by PlayStation’s count.

Bottom line up front

## So what does this mean for the *Average TechNerd*?

From December 10, PS Plus Premium stops streaming to PCs. Your membership and everything it gets you on a PS5 or PS4 stays the same, and people who used the app will hear from PlayStation.

Before then, look after your saves. Streamed games keep their saves on PlayStation’s side, so a PS5 or PS4 can pick them up. If you want them in a downloaded copy instead, copy them to online storage. The PC app can do that until December 10, and so can a console while you stream. And if you play your own console on a PC through Remote Play, that’s a different app, and this notice doesn’t touch it.

At a glance

What's happening

PlayStation is retiring the PlayStation Plus app on PC

When

From December 10, 2026

Who it affects

PS Plus Premium members who stream games to a Windows PC

What it streamed

PS4 games from the Game Catalog and select Classics

Why

Fewer than 0.4% of eligible Premium members used it

Not affected

PS Plus memberships and benefits on PS5 and PS4

Remote Play on PC

A separate app, and the notice doesn’t mention it

Refunds or price change

None mentioned; Premium is still $19.99 a month in the US

Announced

November 10, 2026, on the PlayStation Blog

## What is PlayStation shutting down?

The PlayStation Plus app for Windows. It was the PC side of Premium, the top tier. You signed in, connected a controller and streamed games from PlayStation’s servers. That covered [PS4 games from the Game Catalog and a selection of Classics](https://web.archive.org/web/20250127151155/https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps-plus/getting-started/). The games themselves never got installed.

The notice sits at the bottom of the [November Game Catalog post](https://blog.playstation.com/2026/11/10/playstation-plus-game-catalog-for-november-death-stranding-2-on-the-beach-like-a-dragon-pirate-yakuza-in-hawaii-atomfall-dragon-quest-iii-hd-2d-remake-and-more/?ref=averagetechnerds.com). It’s under a heading that only calls it “an update to the PlayStation Plus app on PC.” It’s easy to scroll right past. And if you go looking for PlayStation’s help page on the app, it’s already gone.

## Why is PlayStation retiring it?

Almost nobody used it, and that’s the reason PlayStation gives. Fewer than one in 250 Premium members who could stream on a PC were using it. That’s a small group, and you might be in it.

## What happens to your PS Plus membership?

Nothing changes on your console. PlayStation says the change “does not affect PlayStation Plus memberships or benefits available on PS5 and PS4 consoles.” Only the PC side goes.

The notice says nothing about refunds or a price change, though. Premium is still $19.99 a month in the US, the same as before. If PC streaming was the only reason you paid for Premium, that’s worth a look before your next renewal. The tiers and prices are on our [PS Plus games page](https://averagetechnerds.com/ps-plus-games-coming-leaving/).

## What happens to your saves?

Start with the good part. A streamed game’s save is “stored on PlayStation,” on its servers, going by PlayStation’s [save guide](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/subscriptions/save-transfer-ps-plus-stream/?ref=averagetechnerds.com). Your PC never held it. Stream the same game on a PS5 or PS4 and you can carry on with no extra steps.

![A cloud icon next to the PlayStation Plus logo](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b3/23/b323103c-90c0-46a8-9230-7d317a5ebaf3/content/images/2026/11/ps-plus-cloud-saves.jpg)

Streamed games save to PlayStation’s servers. Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Want that save in a downloaded copy on your console? That takes one extra step, because streamed and downloaded games don’t share saves on their own. You copy the save to online storage, then download it on the console. On the PC, start the game, open its save menu, press the PS button and look under Application Saved Data Management for Copy to Online Storage. A PS5 or PS4 can do the same while streaming. On the PC, you’ve got until December 10\. What happens to streamed saves after that, the notice doesn’t say.

## Can you still play PlayStation games on a PC?

Yes, if there’s a PS5 or PS4 under your TV. [PS Remote Play](https://remoteplay.dl.playstation.net/remoteplay/lang/en/?ref=averagetechnerds.com) puts that console on your PC screen, so anything installed on it can come along, downloaded PS Plus games included, as long as the game supports Remote Play. It won’t carry Premium’s cloud streaming, so stream-only games like the PS3 Classics are out.

What goes away is playing PS Plus games on a PC with no PlayStation at all. From December 10, you need a console, with the game downloaded to it.

Did you ever use the PS Plus app on PC, or did you forget it existed?

Based on the PlayStation Blog’s November 10 Game Catalog post, archived copies of PlayStation’s PS Plus getting-started and PS Plus on PC support pages, its save transfer guide and its PS Remote Play page, as of November 10, 2026.