Sony is attempting to make the coronavirus lockdown a little more bearable with its Play At Home scheme. The new initiative, announced today by PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, has been put in place to benefit PS4 owners cooped up indoors as well as indie game developers who find themselves in a difficult financial situation.
As it says on the PlayStation Blog, Play At Home has "two components". The first sees the company making a couple of games available to download on PS4 for free. The second establishes a $10 million relief fund for developers who find themselves out of pocket during this time.
The games PS4 players can look forward to are Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Journey (the former is replaced with Knack 2 in Germany and China). While these titles are likely to be owned by many already, this initiative makes them available to all for no charge, meaning even those without PS Plus can grab a freebie. The complimentary games will be available from 15th April to 5th May.
This will all be part of the company's $100 million fund to aid various groups of people during the coronavirus pandemic. It's certainly a good gesture, and even though a lot of gaming enthusiasts will have played these games, there will be plenty that are grateful for something extra to play. Nice one.
[source blog.us.playstation.com, via hollywoodreporter.com]
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Well that's very generous indeed.
Hopefully someone can help me get that last trophy in Journey for the two people final level thing (you know the one I mean).
Journey is still incredible. Hopefully even more people get to try it out.
This is a fantastic initiative
Well that’s good news. Journey’s brilliant and should be played by as many people as possible.
I may as well try out Journey and see for myself whether or not it is any good. People do say that it is amazing, but the trailers for it don't particularly look that great to me.
not bad 4 games and while i own the Uncharted Collection i have never played Journey so as it's free i might as well give it a go
assuming i'm done with FFVII Remake in time that is
I'd like to try Journey, but I can't find it in the store. My searches have only turned up dynamic and static themes for it... Maybe some technical issues.
nice one Sony 👍 👍
Thank you Sony!
Saint Shuhei looking after his Indie people, what a guy!
Kudos to Sony!
It's only a shame i already have both of those, like i'm sure many others do aswell.
Idk, i just think it would have been better if they added the equvalent quantity of money to the peoples PSN wallet and that way they can keep everyone happy.
Good guy Sony.
oh apparently they are ours to keep forever
https://twitter.com/PlayStationUK/status/1250103007422951428
Neat, never played any of these games, so I'm thankful for this.
Nice, I'd add them to the library because I'm on the FFVIIR bandwagon at the moment.
@gollumb82 I see the game labelled as PSN for € 14.99 or as PSNOW for € 0,01...
In EU free from 16/04
Sony gets some brownie points for this! Great games...
SONY is just being amazing during this entire crisis. From their staff to their base... nicely done.
N.i.c.e.i wonder if thats a one time thing.word up son
Lots of people asking the obvious question... will we be able to "buy" these if already redeemed on PS+?
i wonder if MS and Nintendo will do something similar? it could be bad PR if they don't
Great move. Sony has been way out in front taking Coronavirus seriously.
Also I feel like $10 million fund for indie developers should’ve been the lead. Kind of got buried here.
It’s good to see that PS still ♥️ Indies!
@FullbringIchigo Not handing out free games shouldn't be bad PR imo.
Well I haven't played Uncharted 3 and Journey so I appreciate this.
Issue is I don't have these game at all u less I have a ps sub and at this moment I don't think I'll be able to renew I'm in isolation because of my 2yr old son who is Vulnerable. And I don't know after these 12 weeks if I will have a job yet I can't claim these because having plus stops you
@Octane it shouldn't but in this day and age where everyone has a soap box to shout off you know it will be, XBOX and Nintendo gamers will start demanding free games just because PlayStation gamers got some
Love the Uncharted series, but I have never played Journey. Maybe it’s time to finally play it.
@FullbringIchigo Nintendo probably wont give out free games but they have played a part donating 10,000 facemasks to medical helpers in the United States. Kudos to Sony and Nintendo
yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maybee have a uncharted binge out and play them all back to back
@ArcadeHeroes well that's pretty neat, good on them
i bought and played all these games on the ps3 back in the day. then i bought them again for the ps4, and now i get them for free, lol
Very awesome gesture, hopefully people enjoy them. Journey is a great experience!
That is really Cool that it isn't restricted to PS Plus members. Good stuff!
Well done Sony xx
Uncharted was on plus a month or two back wasn’t it? So, yours to keep unless you have ps plus?
Uh, Uncharted was just a Plus game. So that was a useless month for Plus. I know, shouldn’t be complaining, but it’s not about this, it’s about the rather lame state of PS Plus.
Wow this is great. I actually missed the uncharted collection thru PS plus so I'm very happy I can actually own it myself for free altho if only they were able to give out physical copies lol.
And journey was a lot of fun, I'll definitely play around in it again on PS4
@Nakatomi_Uk They are free. You don’t need to have PlayStation plus.
I think the Uncharted collection came with our PS4, unless it was just U4 and I bought the collection for my son?
Played the Journey demo but never the entire game so I'll give it a go.
@gollumb82 It isn’t 15th Apri yet. In some parts of the world this will go live on the 16th.
Sweet! I already have the Uncharted collection but I’ve never gotten around to picking up Journey, glad to see I’ll get it for free! Thanks Sony!
A surprise to be sure... but a welcome one.
I already have Uncharted, but realistically I was never going to buy Journey, so I will now play ir and see what it is like.
People on social medias complaining like always that those were given away before on PS+...This is why nothing should ever be given away for free. I already made myself German acc for knack 2 tho
I'm surprised there are so many people who haven't played Journey and hadn't intended to! Guess that makes it a pretty good choice to give away!
@Futureshark
huh they just gave away the uncharted collectio away on plus. weird choice.
Awesome! I'm mainly a Nintendo guy so I have played neither but always wanted to try Journey. Will get it tonight and play it after I'm done with FF7R!
@FullbringIchigo I Can See Microsoft Doing Something Like This As For Big N That One Is Up In The Air
@Ryall
Ok, thanks for clearing that up!
I have them both, but this is a cool thing for them to do.
@invictus4000
Journey is amazing and i didnt know at first it had jump in MP i thought some AI came to aid me until i learned other players can join your game and not much chnges other then you feeling less loneley knowing there is someone else around. If that player also knows the game you can also move a lot faster in cooporatation etc. wonderful game.
@invictus4000
Get Astrobots
GET!
Very commendable, I already have them but have let other people know about it, so they can benefit.
Just to hijack a popular thread - sorry in advance. I preordered FFVII Remake from Amazon back in 2016, and friends I know who are further away from the distribution centre and only pre-ordered it a month ago got it last week, even as early as last Monday. Amazon changed the arrival date to max 8pm 14/04/20 then at 6pm yesterday changed it again to 24/04/20 after I spent the day waiting for it.
Has anyone else had similar problems?
@Ryall No you don't get what I am on about Uncharted Collection was free last month yes, I personally don't own that set of games in PS4. Yet since I added them to my account because of Ps Plus it think I own them a along as I have my subscription.
Unless Sony change it where I can add them again so if I don't renew my subscription I can download and play them whenever. I don't think it will because as I said with adding them because of plus it already thinks I own them.
Nice, haven't played the UC games on PS4, or even PS3 in their entirety, before. Thanks Sony.
As people have mentioned though, not sure what happens if you claimed it on Plus a couple of months back. Presumably you won't be able to claim it?
WOW! Nice 1 SONY Might of played Knack 2 if that was free here. Hmm I wonder if I can download it via my Chinese Account? I'll have a look er erm once they fix the internet down my road Thursday night a car smashed into the Telephone pole and had no Internet(well got mobile Internet) since then :-/ Oh well there are worse things that could happen I guess.
Thank you Sony! Nice move! I own Collection (Disc) but I don't have Journey. Still are not free by the way. Do you have them free to your ps store?
Nice move on the selection. I've played them on PS3 and I bought them on PS4 to play again, bc they were worth playing again in 60fps at 1080p. But for people who are watching their money, don't have any spare $$ - this is a good choice. There's 3 full games in here which gives you a lot of time to spend with the title.
They're not showing up as free on my ps store yet...
"Sony Makes Uncharted..."
If the title of this article was "Sony Will Make.." or "Sony To Make..." that may have saved a bunch of us a lot of time not trying to download the game yesterday.
No strings attatched.. Thank you kindly Sony.
Odd because Journey was free for me yet the uncharted collection will always show as download because like I've said I got it free with plus and personally dont own it so I'll miss out on adding it to my personal collection.
So I switched to my partner's account she doesn't have plus Journey is full price and so is uncharted
Same for me. The Uncharted Collection isn't free for me. I bought Journey ages ago so I can't tell if that would be showing up as free for me or not.
How do I get journey free? When I search for it on store it says £11.99 in UK?
To all people looking in the store right now: in Europe you'll have to wait until the 16th to get it for free (it's 15 at 8pm in some US time zone)
Any complaining gamers need a 1 way ticket to a wuhan bat buffett
So I can't get these since I already got it thru ps plus? And when my ps plus expires no uncharted or journey? Cool
@Steel76 ikr.... just waiting so I can get Journey.
Awesome. Been interested in journey for a while but not my usual type of game so didn't risk it. Also got uncharted collection downloaded from plus and slowly in my back log. Ta V much Sony
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