Genshin Impact is on its way out from the PlayStation 4 (PS4), HoYoVerse has confirmed.
According to the Korean publisher, the idea is to focus on the game’s experience exclusively on current generation platforms—such as the PS5 and Xbox Series—as well as the PC and smartphone crowds. For the most part, the company blames the outdated hardware of the PS4 as a potential dampener on the fluidity and overall flow of the title.
Genshin Impact arrived on the PS4 on its official launch date, September 28, 2020, being released alongside versions for PC and smartphones. Since then, the game has been progressively updated with robust sets of new contents, both major story developments and quality-of-life upgrades.
The end of PS4 support surely marks a day of bad news for PS4 owners everywhere, but according to HoYoVerse, the change will be gradual, only to be definitive by 2026. Read on to know how things will proceed:
Genshin Impact Loses its PS4 Support: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Why is Genshin Impact leaving the PS4
Simply put, the PS4 hardware is outdated. That’s what HoYoVerse gives suggests when it says the game will end support for the last gen console:
“Due to limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size, we will be discontinuing support and updates for Genshin Impact on PS4 in future versions.”
HoYoVerse
The publisher did not go into further detail, but it is a safe bet that any and all future content from the game will lean on the heavier, more hardware demanding side, which can potentially diminish player experience on Sony’s last gen home device. It is worth mentioning that the PS4 is the only one affected by this, as PS5 and all other platforms will keep support as is.
Not that it does much to lessen the impact of this news but hey, at least this will be made in a gradual manner, like we said.
How Much Time You Have Left
Not much, but not little either. According to HoYoVerse, Genshin Impact support on PS4 will end on early April, 2026, after a nearly 7 month phase out process where features will be curtailed, bit by bit.
Check the full calendar below:
- September 10, 2025: The game will be removed from the PlayStation Store. New accounts on the console will no longer be able to download it.
- December 17, 2025: In-game notifications will begin to appear periodically to remind players about the transition.
- February 25, 2026: All in-game purchases will be disabled, both on the PlayStation Store and in the in-game shop for PS4.
- April 8, 2026: Support for the game on PS4 will officially end. After this date, it will no longer be possible to log in to the game from this console.
The Public’s Reaction
Reactions from HoYoVerse’s announcement were, well… Not the cheeriest ones, let’s say. On Reddit’s official thread, most users are complaining about how they’ll have to switch to another platform (some of them claim the smartphone will be the mandatory choice as they live in other countries, where the PS5 and a gaming-enabled PC can get expensive).
Meanwhile, this thread on the game’s leaks is talking about “the end of an era” while recommending Switch users to keep on hoping for a Switch 2 port of the game, among suggestions of smartphone and low-end laptop models to run the game.
At any rate, not only players still have some time to play the game on PS4, but the cross-play nature of HoYoVerse’s RPG title lets you synchronize any items obtained for when you log in from another platform.
It could be worse, but it still leaves a bitter taste, huh?
