Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that the PlayStation Plus Collection, the library of games it setup several years ago to allow PS5 owners to freely download and play first-party PS4 exclusives they might not have in their digital collection, is shutting down.
From May 9th, the collection will no longer be offered. Games can still be redeemed until this date and will be available to users who remain PlayStation Plus subscribers. Thus if you have a PS5 and want to own any of the games in the collection at no cost, now’s the time to grab them.
The collection originally consisted of 20 games (10 first-party and 10 third-party) before “Persona 5” was removed in May last year. Titles include the likes of “God of War,” “Fallout 4, “Mortal Kombat,” “Uncharted 4,” “Ratchet and Clank,” “Days Gone,” “Until Dawn,” “Detroit: Become Human,” “Battlefield 1,” “Infamous Second Son,” “Batman Arkham Knight,” “The Last Guardian,” “The Last of Us Remastered,” “Resident Evil 7,” “Bloodborne” and “Monster Hunter World”.
The collection has become mostly redundant in the wake of Sony setting up its three-tier PS Plus system with its Game Pass-style library of several hundred titles. Sony recently announced that PlayStation 5 has enjoyed its best sales quarter yet, selling 7.1 million units in the last quarter of last year alone.
They’ve also had to say they’re not cutting production numbers of the PSVR2 following a report at Bloomberg claiming that Sony had halved its original forecast for PSVR 2 shipments from two million units for the headset’s launch quarter to one million units after early pre-orders disappointed.
The article suggests a reason for the sluggish potential start is the PSVR2’s price point of $549 U.S. dollars combined with the unit only working on a PS5 (not PCs) which starts at $399.
Source: VGC
