A ton of great PS4 first-party exclusives will be free to play on PS Plus on your PS5

A reason to jump right into backward compatibility

Sony added a tremendous perk to PlayStation Plus for anyone who plans on adopting the PlayStation 5. It's especially useful for those who haven't been entrenched in the PlayStation ecosystem for a long time.

Sony is making use of the PS5's backward compatibility functionality to offer up a ton of PlayStation 4 first-party exclusives (and a lot of quality third-party titles too). Anyone who has an active PS Plus membership will be able to access these games on PS5 for free at launch on November 12:

• Battlefield 1
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Bloodborne
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
• Days Gone
• Detroit: Become Human
• Fallout 4
• Final Fantasy XV
• God of War
• inFamous: Second Son
• The Last Guardian
• The Last of Us Remastered
• Monster Hunter: World
• Mortal Kombat X
• Persona 5
• Ratchet & Clank
• Resident Evil 7
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Until Dawn

That's a list of absolute bangers suddenly rolled into a subscription that most people probably already have. This group, dubbed the "PlayStation Plus Collection" won't be the headliner when it comes to this afternoon's stream, but it seems like one of those value propositions that people will come to really appreciate over time.