It allows for a more carefully curated selection, one which guarantees quality of product no matter which game you decide to download to your platform, while also ensuring PlayStation Now still has relevance for those who want to delve even deeper into the back catalogue of PlayStation's past, present, and future. What separates the PlayStation Plus Collection from Xbox Game Pass, however, is Sony's confirmation that you won't see new PS5 exclusives being added to the library synchronously with their day one release, nor will the collection ever expand to the daunting breadth of titles that now make up Xbox Game Pass' portfolio. 'I now have access to 18 fantastic backwards compatible PS4 games at no extra cost to what I was already paying.' It isn't out of the realm of possibility that even more recently released exclusives, such as The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima, eventually enter into the PlayStation Plus Collection too. I wouldn't be surprised to see experiences like Horizon Zero Dawn eventually make the cut as Sony seeks to introduce more players than ever before into the wonderful world Guerrilla has built. It's unclear whether PlayStation plans to expand, or simply swap and switch out, the current list of available titles announced so far, or if it's even got more in store for PS5's launch that it simply hasn't announced yet. Oh, don't think for a second that Naughty Dog is done with Uncharted yet, as if you needed another good reason to play Uncharted 4 anyway.

God of War 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Battlefield 6 are all scheduled to launch next year, for example, making this Holiday the perfect time to catch up with the most recent instalments in each of their respective franchises.

For Sony, too, the PlayStation Plus Collection represents the perfect way to introduce new PlayStation consumers to the brands and franchises that will likely continue to define the platform in the years ahead.

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