If you never owned a PlayStation 4 but picked up its next-gen counterpart recently, the PlayStation Plus Collection is a pretty outstanding investment. 20 PS4 games are yours to own with an active membership, comprising of 10 first-party titles and another 10 from third-party developers. As for whether the PS Plus Collection will be expanded with more games in the future though, Sony itself is unsure right now.
In a new interview with GQ, picked up by Video Games Chronicle, PlayStation's Jim Ryan said the Japanese giant will closely analyse how the scheme goes before determining if more titles should be added. "Well, we're going to wait and see how the world receives the Plus Collection. You know, which games are played how much they're played before we make any decisions about that. We think it's potentially going to be a great user acquisition tool. Arguably if you never had a PS4 and you choose to buy a PS5 you basically get a PS4, right?"
Ryan isn't wrong either — the PS Plus Collection currently contains some of the previous generation's heaviest hitters, including God of War, Bloodborne, Persona 5, and Fallout 4. For a list of All PS Plus Collection Games on PS5, head on through the link and don't forget that they all take advantage of PS5 Game Boost. If more PS4 games do arrive, which ones do you hope for? Share your list in the comments below.
[source gq-magazine.co.uk, via videogameschronicle.com]
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The fact that they're even considering it tells me that they probably will at some point. Game Pass is too much of a juggernaut to ignore.
Hopefully ones that PS4 owners can have too.
If this is PlayStation's Game Pass, even if it only had PS4 games, Id be pretty happy.
Why do people compare this to Gamepass when, clearly, PS Now IS Gamepass (but better).
Need for Speed 2015 at 60 fps on PS5 would be awesome!
Just stop with the Jim Ryan articles already, this is like the 4th article where that guy opened his mouth and said absolutely nothing of any substance.
Let me know when he actually answers a question without the nothingness.
@rjejr Stop writing about the guy who runs PlayStation...?
Yeah, I think psnow can be a great alternative to gamepass if sony can rename it to psplus platinum (make it a higher tier of psplus), don't say anything about streaming, and made it available worldwide. And rename the streaming part to "Playstation Stream" or something else.
I don't think sonys want give their 1st party 10M+ selling titles freely on subscription service though, it's like asking nintendo to give zelda botw, mario odysey, splatoon 2, and their 1st party games freely to nintendo subscription service, lol.
It's all marketing, and MS have the better gimmicky name. "Game Pass" sounds so much less boring than "Playstation Now/Plus" If the product is good enough you won't even need to have the word Playstation in there.
I just plugged my PS5 in for the first time with a disc copy of PS4 AC Valhalla. Anyone have a problem where it doesn't allow you to upgrade to PS5, I can only "Copy". Am I doing something wrong, this is ridiculous?
Help plz!
Great just checked Reddit and it does appear that other people are having the same issue.
@wiiware I've been saying for a while that PS Now should have rebranded as soon as ps4 games could have been downloaded. Also advertise the fact that its half the price of gamepass (if you purchase a year).
As for first party games. In 5 years when xbox actually has consistent first party releases at the quality and consistency as Sony we will see if they can keep offering them day and date with gamepass. Just don't see that its sustainable unless they start reaching netflix levels of subscription numbers.
I don’t need it in the collection because I’ve beaten it, I’m just really surprised Horizon isn’t in there. Seems like kind of the odd one out
@Jayslow Sony usually really good at branding, playstation portable, playstation 4 pro, playstation vr, compared to that playstation now didn't give users knowledge about what service it was. Most people didn't know you can download 200+ games on it, I really think sony should rebranded it.
I don't think it's sustainable to make epic, 5 years in the making, cost hundred million to make, and give the games on subscription service, microsoft just start doing that after halo and gears really declined in gaming. I don't think sony and nintendo can make big titles like god of war and zelda botw if they give it freely on subsciption service.
@thefourfoldroot lol how is PS Now better than Game Pass?
@kingv84
? Many more games, much lower price. Pretty obvious. The only people it’s not better for are those who need to get the very latest games day one and have no backlog.
That’s fine, but how about actually giving us Plus games again. You know, something close to the 6 the service was built on.
Do they all really use Game Boost? Rather than add more games, I’d really like to see as many of them as possible receive a Days Gone-caliber upgrade. That game is gorgeous now. Looks almost as good as Valhalla to my eyes.
@ztpayne7 Horizon Has Abandoned Playstation For the PC
@Areus lol no. Guerrilla is a first party studio.
@LiamCroft "Stop writing about the guy who runs PlayStation...?"
There were 2 sentences in my post, can't blame me if you only focused on the first one and ignored the second. Unless the guy who runs PlayStation never answers a question w/ a legitimate answer leaving you with nothing substantial to write about.
Don't you get sick of basically writing articles that say Jim Ryan says "I cant say at this time" article after article after article? I know I would.
GoW, PS+, Starfield, storage.
Though I suppose the storage answer was less "not at this time" and more "you'll get what we give you and you'll like it".
Cover what he says, not what he doesn't say, is what my 2 sentences together amounted too. Otherwise you can never have enough Keanu. More Reeves please. 😁
@rjejr Good job you're not the one writing them then!
They should at least upgrade persona 5 to royal
@Hoodie718 I don't know if all the games in the collection use it but doesn't "Game Boost" just mean they aren't locking the clocks back to PS4 levels?
They sell it like some revolutionary technology but it seems more like marketing to me. The games with "Game Boost" run faster because they are running on faster hardware while the games without game boost are locked to slower clocks.
I can't guarantee that is true but, if it is, it would explain why some bc titles load faster on xbox. It is because those titles are getting the benefit of the faster cpu's ability to decompress the textures on xbox but are locked to slower clock speeds on ps5 so only benefit from the ssd.
PS. In no way is this me saying one console is better than another. Please don't take it that way.
@ztpayne7 I Know That but Notice Just About Every Time They Talk About That Game It's Always About the PC Heck they Just Announced That The Game Is Coming To GOG.
@LiamCroft Tell me about it. 🤣
@BowTiesAreCool The product is good enough, and having the PS name in it doesn't make a difference. That's just your narrow-minded opinion. Not sure what it is with people like you always stirring up nonsense. Good thing for the ignore feature.
@InsertUsername I'm sorry you're having a bad day. The product isn't as successful as Game Pass.
well it needs horizon and sooner or later tlou2, tsushima and death stranding
@KPraj I hope these articles are able to help you out.
https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2020/11/12/assassins-creed-valhalla-how-to-upgrade-from-ps4-to-ps5-for-free/
https://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-upgrade-ps4-games-on-your-ps5/
@evan23 I’ve heard the same about unlocked frame rates & it does seem that Xbox has better backward compatibility, but I think they’ve taken it a step further with Days Gone and optimized it to work with PS5. Same with Ghost of Tsushima, though I think it’s more striking in Days Gone. https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/11/days_gone_runs_at_60_frames-per-second_dynamic_4k_on_ps5
@Hoodie718 I think what they have done with those games is modified them to remove/reset the frame rate and/or resolution limitations.
I agree it would be great if that was done for more games.
That being said, I don't think that is what "game boost" refers to.
@InsertUsername LMFAO! Ps Now is absolute garbage, ESPECIALLY in comparison to Gamepass. I have a Ps4 and will upgrade to the 5 when a slim or pro version comes out (As that behemoth is both hideous and underpowered) but I would NEVER sub to Ps Now. Although I don't sub to Gamepass either, it is the far superior service
@Mhayes111387 Dude, if you're going to troll, at least do a better job at it. Was a good try, though, but no cigar. At least you made the ignore list. Bye now.
@InsertUsername Oh no some clown who can't handle people with opinions other than theirs blocked me. What ever will I do now?!?!
@KPraj Yup.Someone else on here said a fix was to go through the Turkish PSN store, but that's too much faff for me.
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