Sony Interactive Entertainment is preparing to retire the brand “PlayStation Network” and the acronym “PSN” by September 2026. The decision emerges from an email sent to the developers and viewed by Insider Gaming.
As reported, the change will be exclusively visual and will not involve technical modifications to the services currently offered. The goal, Sony explains, is to “adequately represent the breadth of our evolving digital services.”
In the message sent to developers, Sony Interactive Entertainment states that it has made a strategic decision to gradually eliminate the terms “PlayStation Network” and “PSN” from the entire platform. The transition will affect all SIE assets and will be completed by September 2026with the aim of simplifying and standardizing branding.
The company specifies that all features currently associated with PSN will remain unchanged and will continue to be available to players. These include core network features such as the friends list, online multiplayer and trophies.
Sony also said that developers will receive further communications before the update of the Technical Requirements Checklist (TRC), scheduled for autumn 2026. From that moment, it will be necessary to adapt to the new branding guidelines and remove any reference to PSN from future publications, assets and interfaces of external services.
The text also specifies that to consult the TRC documentation it will be necessary to have access to PS5 DevNet. However, a central unknown remains: at the moment it is not yet clear what the new name will be that will officially replace “PlayStation Network”.
