Genshin Impact to Cease All PS4 Support

HoYoverse, you know, those folks who made Genshin Impact (I’ve wasted way too much time on it) are dropping a big one—no more PS4 support. Yep, you heard it right. By next spring, zilch updates on PS4, and come next month, poof, gone from the PlayStation store. The kicker? All those in-game buys vanish by February 2026. After that, nada, zip, can’t play it on PS4 no more.

So, HoYoverse drops this fancy-sounding reason: “limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size.” Yeah, okay. Basically, starting September 9, 2025, it’s disappearing from the PlayStation Store. If it’s not on your PS4 by then, tough luck—gone from the searches, snatched from the downloads.

Then, come February 25, 2026, your in-game buys? Out the window—both on PS Store and in the game. So, grab your stuff by Feb or risk waving it goodbye forever.

April 8, 2026, though, is the real kicker. PS4 support? Boom, gone. Can’t even log in. Gotta jump ship to another system like Xbox Series, PS5, PC, or heck, even your mobile.

This bit’s got me scratching my head, though. They’re giving PS4 folks a heads-up—like eight months. But they say it’s due to the hardware when it’s still rolling on mobiles! PS4 might be a dinosaur from 2013 but, honestly, the reasons don’t exactly click. I mean, Android needs 8GB storage, 3GB memory, and works on stuff from 2011. PS4 has 8GB RAM, 500GB storage—sounds like it should work, right?

Heard back from HoYoverse, too. “To better support future version updates…” blah blah. Right, more new stuff coming with ‘Song of the Welkin Moon’ (cryptic, right?). They say hit up their official notice for details.

Most players aren’t sweating it big time, except maybe those on ancient Android phones. But PS4 not cutting it feels pretty off. Whatever the case, PS4 owners are left hanging—just shows how fleeting modern games can be.

And, guess what, shiny update here: HoYoverse chimed in with their piece about these shifts.