Sony details how its PlayStation Plus collection for PS5 will work

Sony has announced more details on how the PlayStation Plus Collection will work in a new blog post. The service will launch alongside the console in the US on November 12 and will offer PS5 owners more than a dozen classic PS4 titles. The titles will be available to PS Plus subscribers at no additional cost and will remain accessible as long as the subscription is active.

The launch date of the service varies globally depending on when the console itself becomes available. It will be available on November 12 in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea and on November 19 in Europe, the Middle East, South America, Asia and South Africa. The collection is not available in China, Sony says, and appears to be only available to PS5 customers. It’s unclear whether PS4 owners who don’t own a PS5 will be able to access the games.

Sony has released an updated list of titles that will be available as part of the PlayStation Plus collection. This includes a couple of games that weren’t on the original list last month; Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Edición Zombies Chronicles Y Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. Here is the full list, which Sony recommends will vary by region:

• Bloodborne
• Days gone by
• Detroit: become human
• God of war
• Infamous second son
• Ratchet and Clank
• The last guardian
• The Last of Us Remastered
• Until dawn
• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Battlefield 1
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Edición Zombies Chronicles
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
• Fallout 4
• Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
• Monster Hunter: Mundo
• Mortal combat
• Person 5
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Sony says these PS4 games should benefit from running on the PS5’s more powerful hardware and also faster load times and more consistent frame rates in some cases.

In addition to announcing more details on the PlayStation Plus collection, Sony also announced which games PS Plus subscribers will receive for free next month. This includes the first free PS5 game, Bugsnax, which will be available from November 3 to January 4. (However, the PS4 version of the game will not be free.) Meanwhile, the PS4 games that will be available are Middle-earth: Shadow of War Y Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition, which will be available from 3 to 30 November.