Is a PS4 still worth repairing in 2026?
The PS4 is over ten years old and has a huge library. When it breaks, the same question comes up every time: repair, or move on?
At the workshop the answer is almost always the same: if the console has a single clear fault, repairing it costs less than a second-hand PS4, and you keep your installed games, saves and account without reinstalling anything.
Faults worth repairing
- Torn HDMI port: the same micro-soldering repair as on the PS5, at a lower price.
- Power supply: the PS4 turns on and off, or no longer reacts.
- Drive that no longer takes discs or reads them.
- Overheating: the PS4 Pro above all, blowing like a jet engine. Cleaning and fresh thermal paste.
- Eject button that spits discs out on its own on early PS4s: often just an adjustment.
When we say no
Two or three faults at once, a badly corroded logic board, a very old model with a dead drive and a power supply to change: there we tell you honestly at the diagnosis, and you only pay the 49 € (nothing at all if the console can't be repaired).
Our advice
Back up your saves to the cloud if you have PlayStation Plus, bring the controller and mains cable, and don't let the console run hot for months: an overheating PS4 ends up damaging its logic board, and then the bill changes.
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