{"id":901350,"date":"2026-04-25T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/opinion-why-is-sony-scrapping-the-psn-name\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:22:11","slug":"opinion-why-is-sony-scrapping-the-psn-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/opinion-why-is-sony-scrapping-the-psn-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why Is Sony Scrapping the PSN Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network nonsense.I was about to sleep last night when I saw a strange report circulating on social media: Sony is set to scrap the PSN branding.While not confirmed by the company \u2013 this communication, it seems, was only intended to be shared with devs for now \u2013 it comes from a good source and seems legit to me.Read the full article on pushsquare.com&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/features\/opinion-why-is-sony-scrapping-the-psn-name\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Georgianna Stoval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network nonsense.I was about to sleep last night when I saw a strange report circulating on social media: Sony is set to scrap the PSN branding.While not confirmed by the company \u2013 this communication, it seems, was only intended to be shared with devs for now \u2013 it comes from a good source and seems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3967,39826,192],"tags":[16706,57818],"class_list":["post-901350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-opinion","category-scrapping","category-sports","tag-opinion","tag-scrapping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901350","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=901350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}