{"id":608374,"date":"2023-02-15T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/15\/horizon-forbidden-west-joins-playstation-plus-one-year-after-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:38:00","slug":"horizon-forbidden-west-joins-playstation-plus-one-year-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/15\/horizon-forbidden-west-joins-playstation-plus-one-year-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Horizon Forbidden West<\/i> joins PlayStation Plus one year after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over a full year after its release,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2023\/02\/15\/playstation-plus-game-catalog-lineup-for-february-horizon-forbidden-west-the-quarry-resident-evil-7-biohazard-and-more\/?sf264277826=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Horizon Forbidden West<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>will come to PlayStation Plus. On Tuesday, February 21, the sci-fi RPG will be added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/sony-is-turning-playstation-plus-into-something-that-feels-very-similar-to-xbox-game-pass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extra and Premium tiers<\/a> of Sony&#8217;s subscription service on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For further comparison, the original\u00a0<em>Horizon Zero Dawn\u00a0<\/em>released on February 28, 2017. The base version never came to PlayStation Plus, though it was bundled with the\u00a0<em>Frozen Wilds\u00a0<\/em>expansion and made free for two weeks in 2021 to encourage PlayStation owners to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/its-time-to-claim-horizon-zero-dawn-for-free-on-the-playstation-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stay at home<\/a> during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a notable addition since Sony typically\u00a0puts its first-party titles on PlayStation Plus years after release. <em>God of War 2018\u00a0<\/em>joined the service in June 2022, for example,\u00a0months before\u00a0<em>God of War Ragnarok<\/em>&#8216;s release in November of that same year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One reason for\u00a0<em>Horizon Forbidden West&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>inclusion may be that its\u00a0<em>Burning Shores\u00a0<\/em>expansion is expected to release in April. The\u00a0PlayStation VR2 spinoff\u00a0<em>Horizon:\u00a0Call of the Mountain\u00a0<\/em>is also meant to release on February 22, the day after\u00a0<em>Forbidden West\u00a0<\/em>comes to PlayStation Plus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This may also quietly speak to\u00a0<em>F<\/em><em>orbidden West&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>sales performance over the past year. Unlike with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/-i-god-of-war-ragnarok-i-has-sold-11-million-copies-in-3-months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>God of War Ragnarok<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>Sony has not been quite as loud and proud about the success of Guerrilla&#8217;s sequel. Sony appears to still have faith in the Horizon series, though,\u00a0since it&#8217;s known Guerrilla is developing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/console\/guerrilla-games-confirms-a-horizon-co-op-spinoff-is-in-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiplayer spinoff<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>PlayStation Plus gains another PlayStation classic<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to\u00a0<em>Horizon Forbidden West,\u00a0<\/em>another notable game joining the PlayStation Plus catalog\u00a0is\u00a0<em>The Legend of Dragoon <\/em>on its Premium tier.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by the now defunct Sony Japan Studio, the JRPG released in 1999 in Japan (and 2000 for the US) to mixed reviews. In its initial release, it sold 1 million copies, with much of those sales being driven by North American audiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The Legend of Dragoon\u00a0<\/em>was released on the PlayStation 3 in 2010 as a PlayStation Classic, but hasn&#8217;t received any real preservation efforts by Sony beyond that. Unless Sony secretly has a remake in the works, the Premium tier on either PS5 or PS4 will be\u00a0the only legal way to play the beloved title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can see\u00a0the full list of games joining PlayStation Plus next week <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2023\/02\/15\/playstation-plus-game-catalog-lineup-for-february-horizon-forbidden-west-the-quarry-resident-evil-7-biohazard-and-more\/?sf264277826=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right here<\/a>, which includes\u00a0Supermassive&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Quarry\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Capcom&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Resident Evil 7.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/console\/-i-horizon-forbidden-west-i-joins-playstation-plus-one-year-after-launch\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Justin Carter, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a full year after its release,\u00a0Horizon Forbidden West\u00a0will come to PlayStation Plus. On Tuesday, February 21, the sci-fi RPG will be added to the Extra and Premium tiers of Sony&#8217;s subscription service on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.\u00a0 For further comparison, the original\u00a0Horizon Zero Dawn\u00a0released on February 28, 2017. The base version never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,38752,26669],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-608374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-forbidden","9":"category-horizon"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}