PlayStation's Communities app helps you find teammates faster
Join a group of players with similar interests using PSN’s third mobile app.
PlayStation's official mobile app has been live since 2013, letting players glance at their friends list, keep up with console news and buy new games on the fly. Then Sony released another companion app last December dedicated to messaging within the PlayStation Network. Today, iOS and Android users get a third: Communities, which will let players join groups with similar interests and game preferences.
Per its description, Communities will operate like themed forums to chat about games and jump into them with other players. Having trouble with a Destiny raid? Team up quickly with similarly-troubled peers and jump in to the game straight from the mobile app. It will also suggest communities for you to join based on what games you've played, as well as pointing out which groups are trending, if you care about joining the coolest crew on the PSN streets.
Could this feature have been rolled into the primary PlayStation app? Yes. Yes it could have. You need only look at how poorly the standalone Messages one was received to see how superfluous Communities might become, but at least it won't get lost in the main mobile app's crowded UI. But shoving players into digital rooms is a smart way to get them jumping into games together, as Titanfall 2's clan-style Networks have proved. Whether enough of them go through the trouble of downloading another PlayStation app is another story.
