Goodbye PS4: Genshin Impact Moves On

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There’s a quiet kind of ending happening in Teyvat—not a dramatic shutdown, not a final boss fight, but something more subtle. The kind that signals change rather than closure. After years of updates, expansions, and ever-growing regions, Genshin Impact is officially saying goodbye to the PlayStation 4.

And maybe, it was always heading this way.

The Announcement That Felt Inevitable

Back in August 2025, developer HoYoverse confirmed that support for the PS4 version of Genshin Impact would come to an end on April 8, 2026.

This isn’t just a pause in updates. Once that date hits, players on PS4 will no longer be able to log in at all. It’s a full stop—but only for one platform. The game itself continues. On PS5, PC, and mobile, Genshin Impact moves forward like nothing happened.



A Slow Goodbye, Not a Sudden One

What makes this transition interesting is how gradual it is. Instead of pulling the plug overnight, HoYoverse structured the shutdown in phases:
  • September 2025 — Removed from PlayStation Store
  • February 2026 — In-game purchases disabled
  • April 2026 — Full support ends, login disabled
It feels less like a shutdown and more like a slow fade-out—one where players are quietly given the time to prepare, to move on, and eventually, to accept it.

The Official Reason: A Game That Outgrew Its Hardware

According to HoYoverse, the decision comes down to hardware performance limitations and increasing application size. And honestly, it makes sense.

Genshin Impact in 2020 is very different from Genshin Impact today. What started with Mondstadt and Liyue has expanded into a massive, evolving world—each update adding more systems, more assets, more complexity. At some point, something has to give. The PS4, released in 2013, is now carrying a game that was never designed to stay small.



But Not Everyone Is Fully Convinced

Still, not everyone sees it as purely technical. Some players question the reasoning. After all, Genshin Impact still runs on mobile devices—platforms that, on paper, can be less powerful than a PS4.

It opens up a different conversation—whether this is really just about hardware limitations, or also about shifting focus to newer platforms and where the player base has moved over time.

There’s no official confirmation beyond performance and size issues. But the timing does align with a broader industry trend—leaving last-gen hardware behind.

The Bigger Picture: Live-Service Games Don’t Stay Still

What’s happening here isn’t unique. Live-service games evolve. And in doing so, they often outgrow the platforms they started on.

Supporting older hardware comes with trade-offs:
  • Slower updates
  • Technical compromises
  • Development constraints
At some point, maintaining everything equally becomes impossible, so developers have to choose—and in this case, Genshin Impact is choosing to move forward.

What This Means for Players

For PS4 players, the message is clear: You don’t lose your progress—but you do need to move. By linking accounts, players can continue their journey on:
  • PlayStation 5
  • PC
  • Mobile
The world of Teyvat isn’t disappearing. It’s just asking you to follow it somewhere else.



Not an Ending—Just a Transition

It’s easy to call this the end of an era—and in some ways, it is. The PS4 has been there since the very beginning, back in September 2020 when Genshin Impact first launched globally. But this isn’t really the end of the game; if anything, it’s a sign of how much it has grown, expanding into something far beyond what last-gen hardware was built to handle. And maybe that’s the real story here—not that the PS4 is being left behind, but that Genshin Impact has simply outgrown it.


Official announcement can be found and read here:

Notice on the Removal and Discontinuation of Updates for Genshin Impact on PS4®





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