About r/PS4
In its own words:
The largest PlayStation 4 community on the internet. Your hub for everything related to PS4 including games, news, reviews, discussion, questions, videos, and screenshots.
Community guide
r/PS4 (#156, about 5.5 million) covers PlayStation 4 and related PS discussion as allowed by its rules—news, games, and console topics. Collected rules cover Do not personally attack other users; Do not discuss hacking, piracy or grey market; All spoilers and NSFW content must be marked; Use the Daily Megathread for general questions, game recommendations, and Tech Support. Sample ~7.7 ppd (55 posts). Sample mix: text:49, video:4, link:2.
Fit
PS4 ecosystem posts. Rules: Do not personally attack other users.; Do not discuss hacking, piracy or grey market.; All spoilers and NSFW content must be marked.; Use the Daily Megathread for general questions, game recommendations, and Tech Support.; Official game media must come from official sources.; Flair your posts, mention the game in the title when necessary.; No Clickbait Titles.; Do not submit low quality content. Some content is only allowed on weekends.; Giveaways and Surveys have to go through mod approval.; Don't post spam, self-promotion, or let's play videos.. Sample ~7.7 ppd.
Versus pcgaming and nintendo
Other platform hubs. Keep non-PS topics out unless rules allow comparisons.
Practical pointers
Follow buy/sell, support, and spoiler rules as listed on-sub.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on May 17, 2010, which makes it 16 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 366 subscribers (+0.01%). Among the 17 communities on our PlayStation list it is number 2 by size. It sits just behind r/Sneakers (#154) and ahead of r/backpacking (#157) in our ranking.
What sets r/PS4 apart
Compared with other large communities, r/PS4 leans heavily on text posts (89% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 34%). Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.4 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/PS4 grew from 5,533,678 to 5,535,999 subscribers (+2.3K, +0.04%). That is about 53 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/PS4 talks about
Looking at the titles of 55 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “games”, “looking”, “slim”, “playstation” and “original”. Other frequent themes are fat, connect, controller, game, trying and run. Recurring phrases include “run games”, “recommend based”, “original fat” and “fat model”. By format, 89% are text posts, 7% are videos and 4% are links.
Popular post flairs: :talk: General Discussion (16), :patch: Help & Tech Support (14), :game: Game Discussion (9), :info: General Question (6), :announce: Recommend me something! (5), :ps: Official (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/PS4 gets about 7.7 new posts a day. The public archive holds 958,967 posts and 13,576,191 comments in total, about 14.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (11 posts) and the quietest was Friday (6). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 16:00 UTC.
Rules of r/PS4
The moderators of r/PS4 list 11 rules. In short:
- Do not personally attack other users.
- Do not discuss hacking, piracy or grey market.
- All spoilers and NSFW content must be marked.
- Use the Daily Megathread for general questions, game recommendations, and Tech Support.
- Official game media must come from official sources.
- Flair your posts, mention the game in the title when necessary.
- No Clickbait Titles.
- Do not submit low quality content. Some content is only allowed on weekends.
- Giveaways and Surveys have to go through mod approval.
- Don't post spam, self-promotion, or let's play videos.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/PS4 and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/PS4 have?
r/PS4 has 5,535,999 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #156 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 2,321 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/PS4?
r/PS4 was created on May 17, 2010, so it has been around for 16 years.
How active is r/PS4?
Moderately: r/PS4 gets about 7.7 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 958,967 posts and 13,576,191 comments. In a sample of 55 recent posts we counted 49 different authors.
When is r/PS4 most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 16:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/PS4 about?
The community describes itself as: “The largest PlayStation 4 community on the internet. Your hub for everything related to PS4 including games, news, reviews, discussion, questions, videos, and screenshots.” Recent post titles often mention games, looking, slim, playstation and original. Most posts are text posts (89%).
Is r/PS4 safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/PS4 as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/PS4?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/PS4 accepts both text and link posts. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “Do not personally attack other users.”; “Do not discuss hacking, piracy or grey market.”; “All spoilers and NSFW content must be marked.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/PS4?
Communities with similar topics include r/PS5 (8.2M), r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS (2.7M), r/zelda (3.3M), r/CFB (4.6M) and r/cyberpunkgame (2.7M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/PS4.