{"id":900563,"date":"2026-04-20T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/sony-has-global-plans-for-playstation-age-verification-report\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:12:16","slug":"sony-has-global-plans-for-playstation-age-verification-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/sony-has-global-plans-for-playstation-age-verification-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Has Global Plans For PlayStation Age Verification &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment PlayStation users who want to make use of certain console features&#8211;namely, online communication with other players&#8211;will soon be required to verify their age, according to a recent report from Insider Gaming.The report cites an email from Sony Interactive Entertainment that reads, &#8220;Verify your age to keep using communication features,&#8221; and goes on to reveal plans to implement world-wide age verification later this year (though the email does not provide a specific date).&#8221;At Sony Interactive Entertainment&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-has-global-plans-for-playstation-age-verification-report\/1100-6539507\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Larisa Michaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation users who want to make use of certain console features&#8211;namely, online communication with other players&#8211;will soon be required to verify their age, according to a recent report from Insider Gaming.The report cites an email from Sony Interactive Entertainment that reads, &#8220;Verify your age to keep using communication features,&#8221; and goes on to reveal plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,1424,974],"tags":[9295,5960],"class_list":{"0":"post-900563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-global","9":"category-plans","10":"tag-global","11":"tag-plans"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}