The PS Plus Collection library shuts down today

Players only have a matter of hours to redeem the PS4 games before the offer ends

The PlayStation Plus Collection will end today.

The scheme offered a library of PS4 games to PS5 owners who were also members of the paid PlayStation Plus subscription service.

However, as Sony announced back in February, the offer’s end date is May 9.

At the time of writing, the games are still available to redeem, but they’re accompanied by a message warning players that this is their last chance to claim them.

Players can still redeem the games before the service is removed, and will be able to continue playing them beyond the closure date as long as they remain subscribed to PS Plus.

The PlayStation Plus Collection originally included 20 games (10 first-party and 10 third-party) before Persona 5 was removed in May 2022.

The remaining 19 games available as part of PlayStation Plus were:

Batman: Arkham Knight
Battlefield 1
Bloodborne
Call of Duty Black Ops III: Zombie Chronicles Edition
Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy
Days Gone
Detroit: Become Human
God of War
Fallout 4
Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition
Infamous: Second Son
The Last Guardian
The Last of Us Remastered
Monster Hunter World
Mortal Kombat X
Ratchet & Clank
Resident Evil 7
Uncharted 4
Until Dawn

The PS Plus Collection was made available at PS5’s launch in 2020 as a perk for owners of the new-gen console only.

At the time, SIE CEO Jim Ryan said he hadn’t decided if the PlayStation Plus Collection would be expanded beyond its initial launch line-up.

“Well, we’re going to wait and see how the world receives the Plus Collection,” he told GQ. “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?”

PlayStation VR2

PlayStation Portal

PS5 DualSense Controller - White

PlayStation 5 (Slim)

PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (Slim)

PlayStation 5 Pro

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What does Redfall have to do with a subscription service? Everything. If that is the quality of games you can expect from a subscription service – I don’t imagine many gamers want it that much. They expect a minimum level of quality. Not just to release any old tat to have something to release.

The internal reviews Microsoft had on Redfall were positive, according to Phil Spencer. How they let it release in that state I don’t know? And yes sometimes it is better to cancel rubbish than release it, Hollywood does it all the time. And as a business, you can account for loses – you just write them off.

The bad state of Redfall has made people concerned about Starfield and concerned about the quality overall of future games from Xbox. Redfall was suppose to be a AAA release, full price game … and it was so bad. And it was Microsoft marketing the game – pushing it as something it wasn’t.

Xbox ecosystem still needs new games to continue growing and if it can’t release something as simple as looter shooter with a basic premise. I mean nobody was expecting a 10/10 game – nobody. They were expecting a typical Arkane type release – something that could possibly be great perhaps a bit niche – but more often than not, forgotten after a few months. But enjoyable enough to play until something better comes along. Whole premise of Game Pass.

But now people are questioning a lot, including the leadership of Phil Spencer. People are fed up with the promises and not delivering. So if I was you I would stop dissing Sony, they aren’t the ones in trouble at the minute. Xbox hardware sales down 30% – Redfall an absolutely shocking game that should never have been released and is reviewing as one the 15 worst reviewed games ever, a massive merger blocked by the CMA. And a future resting on Starfield – one game that could determine the future of Xbox.

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Xenu says:
9th May 2023 at 4:21 am
Combined with the 30+ PS Plus Extra/Premium titles they removed over the past few weeks it makes you wonder if Sony loses confidence in it’s subscription.
Over the past year they removed about 110 more games than they added. This includes several titles Sony owns all rights to.
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1. Fallenlords says:
  9th May 2023 at 4:58 am
  Redfall slips into the top 15 of Steams worst rated games of all time. If I was Sony I would be reviewing the need for a subscription service. Xbox is out of the way as far as competition is concerned, it isn’t going head-to-head any more according to Phil Spencer. I would let Xbox have the subscription service and Sony can stick to the model that makes them money and sells consoles.
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  1. Xenu says:
    9th May 2023 at 8:53 am
    What does Redfall has to do with a subscription service? Redfall was greenlit by Zenimax 6 years ago. It was also planned as live-service title with microtransactions.
    Microsoft literally removed the microtransactions and shoved it out as it wasn’t expected to be a success. The only other option would have been cancellation of a game that was nearly finished when Microsoft acquired Zenimax.
    Sony probably would have killed the project and the studio without hesitation with ne respect for the work developers put in. Basically just like Dreams & PixelOpus recently.
    The Xbox ecosystem has more MAUs than PlayStation for two years now. Game Pass is the main reason for that. Sony themselves recently said Game Pass was “far ahead” of PS Plus. So yeah, maybe you’re right and Sony did gave up on that front. I doubt they lower prices of their subscription tho. Despite all the removals, price reductions aren’t a thing Sony is interested in. They might raise the price instead.
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    1. Fallenlords says:
      9th May 2023 at 9:22 am
      What does Redfall have to do with a subscription service? Everything. If that is the quality of games you can expect from a subscription service – I don’t imagine many gamers want it that much. They expect a minimum level of quality. Not just to release any old tat to have something to release.
      The internal reviews Microsoft had on Redfall were positive, according to Phil Spencer. How they let it release in that state I don’t know? And yes sometimes it is better to cancel rubbish than release it, Hollywood does it all the time. And as a business, you can account for loses – you just write them off.
      The bad state of Redfall has made people concerned about Starfield and concerned about the quality overall of future games from Xbox. Redfall was suppose to be a AAA release, full price game … and it was so bad. And it was Microsoft marketing the game – pushing it as something it wasn’t.
      Xbox ecosystem still needs new games to continue growing and if it can’t release something as simple as looter shooter with a basic premise. I mean nobody was expecting a 10/10 game – nobody. They were expecting a typical Arkane type release – something that could possibly be great perhaps a bit niche – but more often than not, forgotten after a few months. But enjoyable enough to play until something better comes along. Whole premise of Game Pass.
      But now people are questioning a lot, including the leadership of Phil Spencer. People are fed up with the promises and not delivering. So if I was you I would stop dissing Sony, they aren’t the ones in trouble at the minute. Xbox hardware sales down 30% – Redfall an absolutely shocking game that should never have been released and is reviewing as one the 15 worst reviewed games ever, a massive merger blocked by the CMA. And a future resting on Starfield – one game that could determine the future of Xbox.
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    2. Michael says:
      9th May 2023 at 9:39 am
      “Sony probably would have killed the project and the studio without hesitation”
      And rightfully so. The game is a trainwreck in every way.
      “with ne respect for the work developers put in.”
      WHAT work???
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    3. Michael says:
      9th May 2023 at 9:40 am
      “Despite all the removals, price reductions aren’t a thing Sony is interested in.”
      Neither is microsoft seeing how they removed 360 games from Games with Gold but didn’t replace them with xbox one / series games or reduce the monthly price.
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    4. Michael says:
      9th May 2023 at 9:38 am
      “The Xbox ecosystem has more MAUs than PlayStation for two years now.”
      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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    5. Michael says:
      9th May 2023 at 9:44 am
      “Microsoft literally removed the microtransactions and shoved it out as it wasn’t expected to be a success.”
      When did microsoft suggest it wasn’t going to be a success?
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2. Michael says:
  9th May 2023 at 9:43 am
  Redfall sure has you fanboys hurt badly 😄
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Johnny says:
9th May 2023 at 5:42 am
Even less games……no wonder PSPlus is a failure.
Time for Sony to relaunch it again for the 3rd time.
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1. Michael says:
  9th May 2023 at 9:42 am
  Tell me what the PS Plus Collection (a bonus perk for PS5 owners) has to do with the relaunched PS Plus Service
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2. Michael says:
  9th May 2023 at 9:40 am
  Which service has Redfall? 🤣🤣🤣
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Drinkmorepatron says:
9th May 2023 at 8:04 am
Shutting studios and services.smh
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1. Michael says:
  9th May 2023 at 9:42 am
  Hardly a service. It was simply a bonus perk for PS5 owners that’s sadly but understandably expired
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