Sony Plans To End PS4’s Lifespan By 2025

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PlayStation 4 is still one of the most known consoles ever created. It was first released in November 2013 to this day it sold around 117 million units, which is more than PS3 which sold 87 million units, but still less than PS2, which is still the best-selling console ever with 155 million units sold.

PS4’s successor, PS5, was released in November 2020, 7 years after PS4 first appeared. Still, new games which are getting released on PS5 are still being released on the last gen of the console, particularly because PS5 is still pretty hard to get. Although Sony plans to fix the situation with PS5 supplies by the end of the next year, they recently revealed that PS4’s lifespan will end by 2025, it was revealed in Sony’s recent financial presentation.

The era of PS4 brought us some truly great games, like Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 3, which was the first-ever Witcher game that was released on PlayStation. And some of the anticipated upcoming games are still expected to be released on both PS5 and PS4, like Hogwarts Legacy and God of War: Ragnarok. But, with the upcoming games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Gotham Knights, which were announced to skip last-gen consoles, it’s obvious that the era of PS4 is coming to an end.

Fun fact, PS3’s lifespan ended in 2017, but the last game that was ever released on that console was released in August 2020, which is 14 years after the console first appeared. PS4 will be nine years old this fall, and despite the fact that PS5 is getting more and more recognition, owners of PS4 will still have a lot of time to spend with their console before they decide to buy PS5, unless they already did. There are rumors that Sony plans to release the first upgraded versions of PS5 in late 2023 or early 2024.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.