PS4 losing another feature next month as Sony focuses on PS5

PS4 losing some other characteristic next month equally Sony focuses on PS5

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Adjacent calendar month the Communities feature of the PS4 will be removed via an official console update, Sony has announced.

With the PS5 at present in living rooms effectually the world, it'south inappreciably surprising that Sony isn't actively supporting its last-gen console with new features. But we're a little shocked it's already removing what was a flagship feature.

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The news comes by manner of Siliconera, who picked upward an email Sony has sent to PS4 owners. It confirmed that in April, the ability to create, bring together and participate in PlayStation Communities will be removed from the console.

This isn't a huge surprise for those that follow PlayStation closely. Sony did discontinue the PlayStation Communities mobile app in March last year, plus the patch notes of the latest update beta fabricated mention of the characteristic being removed.

Communities are not a part of the PS5 interface which would further suggest that the feature wasn't used by well-nigh PS4 players. Information technology does sadly mean that, with this removal, any tight-knit communities will need to discover a new place to congregate.

This isn't the only PS4 characteristic that is soon to be removed. Before this month it was confirmed that users volition no longer be able to rent or purchase movies and Television set shows through the PlayStation Store on either PS4 or PS5.

This won't come into effect until August 31 however, and any movies or shows previously purchased earlier this date will yet be bachelor to watch even beyond the removal from the store for purchase.

Despite these announcements, Sony is certainly non planning on fully dropping PS4 back up someday before long. Plenty of major titles including Horizon: Forbidden Due west and Resident Evil 8: Village will be releasing on the last-gen organisation this twelvemonth.

Nonetheless, it'southward clear that the company's focus is now shifted to the PS5, and the PS4 is inbound its twilight years. There is the potential that more features will be sunsetted in the coming months.

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