We don't really know why you would ever want to do this, but the backwards-compatible PlayStation 4 games that make up the PlayStation 5's PS Plus Collection can actually be played on the older console. This is thanks to a workaround which sees you redeem those select titles on your PS5, thus making them playable on your PS4 too. There's little benefit to doing this for any personal gain, but you could then theoretically hand off the PS4 system to a family member or friend with those titles ready to go if your account is set up correctly.
To activate this benefit, all you need to do is head to the PlayStation Store on PS5 and select the PS Plus Collection tab. From there, redeem all the PS4 titles you'd like to play or add to your digital collection, and then those games will now be downloadable for your profile on PS4. It's super simple so you might as well claim every one anyway.
For a full list of All PS Plus Collection Games on PS5, head on through the link. Which ones are you looking forward to checking out for the first time? Share your list in the comments below.
[source resetera.com]
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So, theoretically, you could go on someone’s PS5 with your PS Plus account, “purchase” all these games, then go home and download them on to your PS4 to play?...sounds like a cool workaround, and something Sony certainly won’t want advertised but shows how slapped together their online system is
Edit: related question - can you set up a PS4 and a ps5 as Primary? I’m guessing so. Want to claim the collection games for my brother who won’t have a ps5 for a while, and also play them myself when I don’t have ps plus by keeping a version of his account as an under third Primary on my PS5 when it arrives.
I feel like they should be available as a thank you to ps4 anyways tbh. Plus it's a great way to get people to sign up for the online service if they are on the fence about paying for it.
I guess my question would be whether this can also be used to get BugSnax on PS4 or whether the system is smart enough to differentiate?
@theheadofabroom The PS4 and PS5 versions are different so that wouldn't work.
@theheadofabroom
I think they are different SKUs. The Collection games are just PS4 games run in back compat.
@theheadofabroom I think it's a different sitution with Bugsnax as you're only getting the PS5 version (not the PS4 version) that won't run on PS4. With the collection you're getting PS4 versions of the games (none have PS5 versions) so they can work on PS4 consoles.
@theheadofabroom Bugsnax on PS4 and PS5 are essentially different versions of the game, so it wouldn't work. The games on the PS Plus Collection as is are basically completely unaltered from their PS4 counterparts as they were when they originally released.
So there's no way to "redeem" or "activate" the collection from the webstore?
It's a shame they can't be redeemed using the PS App. I can't find the PS Plus Collection on it.
So, if my friend has a ps5 I can get the 14 ps4 games I don't own on that list for free?
So I take it the only way, at this current time, to get the collection is to get it through the PS5 store? Cause I do not see any other way at the moment. If it is PS5 store only, then that is a really crappy thing to do (funny though cause I asked about this a while back not long after the collection was announced).
Honestly, frankly it's a piss take that people with Ps4 plus can't get them anyway. Sure, get them on ps5 for the better resolution and what not but that's behind a £500 paywall.
Just to be clear, and please correct me, I take no offense, if you pay $60 per year for PS+ and own a PS4 we get 2 games this month but if you pay $60 for PS+ and own a PS4 AND PS5 you get about 14 or 15 games this month?
I'm all for Sony being nice to early adopters but does anyone else see that as PS4 owners pretty much getting d1cked over on the $60 PS+ price?
Fanbois saying "sour grapes" need not respond, if I wanted a PS5 right now I would have bought one. This is about PS+, not PS5. I'm not complaining about Astrobot as a bundled game for your shiny new $500 purchase. Sony wants to give you 12 games for buying a PS5, more power to them, and you. But if this is PS+ dependent, well that reflects poorly on PS4 owners from where I'm sitting.
Can we add PS+ games to a PS5 library on PC or PS4 if we don't have a PS5 yet but planning on buying 1 some day? I thought that's what this article would be about. I'm totally fine with Sony giving me PS+ games I don't have access to until I buy a PS5, that's on me. But I should be able to add all PS+ games to my library regardless of what consoles I own, I have already paid for a year of PS+ to get PS+ games. If Sony is going to have separate PS+ games for PS4 and PS5, and PS5 owners are getting so many more games than PS4 owners, then Sony should either cut the price of PS+ on PS4 or call it something else on PS5.
OK that's long and rambling enough.
tldr Can I add these games to my PS+ library for future use?
Edit: Guess I should have read all the comments first, 5 or 6 people above me said the same thing, way more deftly. 🤣
@thefourfoldroot
Yeah its gamesharing and surprisingly legal. Just make sure the person with the PS5 has his Ps Plus account active.
Log in to your account on their PS5. Activate primary PS5.
In theory it should work as it worked on PS4 but obviously a test is required.
@zupertramp
No, it’s an incentive to get a ps5 (or, it seems now, befriend somebody with a ps5 lol).
This is all well and good game sharing games so ps4 owners get the ps+ collection but as soon as you make the ps5 owners account your primary account they lose all auto cloud updates and as soon as its deactivated as primary the ps4 owner loses all access to ps4 collection. Correct me if im wrong?
Storage space, that’s why.
For anybody who doesn't know, you can claim Bugsnax PS5 version that offered on Plus through web/mobile Store. That's good because it means we can also get Destruction All Stars in 2 months after Bugsnax.
About the PS Plus Collection not being able to claim it unless we own a PS5 i find it very bad, a slap to all us customers and supporters of the PlayStation family of consoles.
I got the PS4 day one last gen and I'm a PS Plus subscriber from when the service launched back in 2010, but this time I'll get later the PS5. Why can't i get the Collection while I'm still a PS Plus subscriber? Why might i lose all those games if they remove the Collection before i get the PS5?
I just want some love and respect back from Sony just as much as i have give to them.
@VegetaSSjd10 yes. Can confirm this works. I am from the UK and dont have a PS5 and i have just added Bugsnax to my ps+ collection. Cheers for the heads up 👍
To get Bugsnax, I was unable to get it through the PS+ tab on the website (that redesign is so crappy, whoever OK'd it should be fired), but had to manually search for the game and get it that way for some reason.
@thefourfoldroot Word. It was just a wild hope.
I thought the big day 1 game list was simply part of PS+ and that even us losers on a ps4 can download them too. No?? 😢
ps4 owners should have been given bugsnax had enough money of ps4 owners over the years
they should simply have made this first batch of games free for playstation plus members. why does everything have to be complicated ? lol
"We don't really know why you would ever want to do this"
Why would I want to increase the IGC segment of my PS4 library? With games like Final Fantasy XV to boot? Yeah, it's a mystery.😏
Not that I have friends with a PS5 or any intentions to get it... but this pack seems like it'll be available for quite a while. Maybe one of our local rental bizes will start offering the console soon enough that I'll have time to jump in for a day and oh so deviously exploit this lifehack.
Or maybe Sony will just gradually add most of these to the usual monthly lineups earlier.😛
Why did you write this article as if 1) it's easy to obtain a PS5 and 2) people don't know other people?
Actually this games workaround works, but be sure NOT to play same game at same time. Especially Rockstar bans you for using same copy of GTA V simulateously.
Wew I don't have any friends nor I'm getting ps5 this sucks
I know how to get it for free. Buy ps5 get the free games then sell ps5 for double price. Win win..
I guess this is useful for people (with a PS4) who can't afford the games but knows someone that has a PS5?
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