PS5: 7 HUGE Mistakes Sony Are Making

4. A Half-Baked Approach To Legacy Collections

Like going cross-gen last minute with their biggest titles, the all-new "PS Plus Collection" feels like another response to Microsoft's increasingly phenomenal Game Pass service.

Where on that platform, all new first-party games are included with the same monthly price - alongside past generations as far back as the original Xbox - Sony's nearest offering is PS Now. The ill-fated service was initially based exclusively around streaming, but has turned into a substantial body of downloadable titles, past and present, available for a separate monthly fee.

However, despite official patents pointing towards PlayStation 1, 2, 3 and 4 games being emulated inside the PS5, the reality of accessing the PlayStation legacy comes from PS Now and the new "PS Plus Collection".

The latter is comprised almost entirely of first-party PS4 games, alongside a smattering of others including Batman: Arkham Knight, Persona 5 and Resident Evil VII. Either way, this points to Sony maintaining a split approach to their own history, rather than Xbox's "pay once, get everything" mandate.=

Either you continue to pay for PS Now - a service drastically overshadowed by Game Pass - with no ground rules on platform inclusion, or you pay an additional fee for PS Plus, just to get PS4 games.

How hard is it, to give us a legacy service - Virtual Console style - that provides access to the last 25 years of PlayStation?