PlayStation has cancelled its Ratchet & Clank shooter, Ranger Rumble, a year after it entered soft launch.
According to a statement on the game’s official website, the final update went live on November 6, and the game will be pulled from app stores on November 21. Servers will shut down permanently on May 1, 2027.
“We’ve made the difficult decision to cease development of Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble,” the statement reads.
In-app purchases have already been removed, and the Super Pass is now free for all players. Qwark Pass seasons will keep running until the servers close.
Ranger Rumble was revealed in November 2025, and soft launched that month in the Philippines and Indonesia. It later expanded to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, France, Canada and the UK, and global pre-registration opened in July, but it never made it to a worldwide launch.
The multiplayer platformer arena shooter, developed by French Frag Pro Shooter maker Oh BiBi with Insomniac, is estimated to have made just $62,000 from 391,000 downloads since it first appeared on app stores in November 2025.
That leaves MLB The Show Mobile, which San Diego Studio launched globally in May, as PlayStation’s only major mobile release. AppMagic estimates it has made $2.3m from 1.9m downloads since it first appeared in soft launch in October 2025.
In 2022, Sony told investors that mobile would account for 10% of its first-party releases by March 2023, rising to 20% by March 2026. Later that year, it bought Savage Game Studios and built a mobile team of execs hired from Apple, Kabam, Meta and Tencent.
Savage was renamed Neon Koi, then closed in October 2024 without releasing a game, laying off 38 staff. Earlier this year, the PlayStation Studio Business Group cut around 50 jobs, including some at PlayStation Studios Mobile. At the time, Sony said development was continuing on both MLB The Show Mobile and Ranger Rumble.
Sony does have mobile hits, but they don’t come from PlayStation. Sony Music-owned Aniplex is behind Fate/Grand Order and Disney Twisted-Wonderland, and AppMagic estimates Sony’s mobile apps have grossed $4.9bn in total, 88% of it from Japan.
