In the meantime, active PlayStation Plus subscribers should pop into the Collection hub to claim any game that takes their fancy. Now that the honeymoon phase for the PlayStation 5 is over, expect more changes on the way. In early 2022, Sony lost the right to include Persona 5, for example – and it’s highly likely other non-Sony titles were set to follow shortly. In fact, it’s likely the cost of licensing games for the collection has far exceeded the benefit of offering free games for subscribers. It appears that, while hopes were high, the service has not been received as intended. We think it’s potentially going to be a great user acquisition tool.’ ‘You know, which games are played how much they’re played before we make any decisions about. ‘We’re going to wait and see how the world receives the Plus Collection,’ Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment told GQ in late 2020. That said, it appears these benefits did not have wide appeal.

It was also a chance to revisit the classic hits of the prior generation. Any new or younger players suddenly had a collection of free games to play when they subscribed to PlayStation Plus – including multiplayer hits like Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Battlefield 1. Read: PlayStation Plus Essential games for February 2023 leakĪs an add-on for PlayStation Plus users, there were certainly merits to the collection.