10 Awesome PlayStation 5 Features You Should Be Using

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Got your hands on a PlayStation 5 at last? Sony’s console can do more than let you experience top-tier titles. To make the most of this powerful gaming system, check out these PS5 add-ons and hidden features.

PlayStation Plus is an optional premium subscription with a range of benefits, depending on how much you want to spend. The “Essential” base tier costs $9.99 per month and offers new monthly games (for as long as you remain subscribed), access to online multiplayer services, discounts in the PlayStation Store, cloud storage for saves, and access to the PlayStation Plus Collection, a curated library of PS4 favorites like Bloodborne, God of War, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.

For $14.99 a month you can unlock the “Extra” tier which provides all of the above, plus access to an all-you-can-eat game catalog of PS4 and PS5 titles. You’ll also get an Ubisoft+ Classics subscription, for accessing even more games. Sony’s game catalog regularly new titles and takes old ones away every month.

Lastly, $17.99 a month unlocks the “Premium” tier for access to game trials for brand new releases, the classics catalog featuring PS1, PS2, and PSP games that run natively, and some PS3 titles that run in the cloud. All tiers come with a week-long trial period before being billed, and all feature discounts for subscribing in three-month and twelve-month blocks.

While the Xbox Series consoles must use Microsoft’s proprietary expansion cards to increase internal storage, Sony’s PlayStation 5 features a user-upgradeable M.2 slot using which you can increase your PS5’s fast storage with an aftermarket NVMe drive. These are the same types of drives used commonly in PCs, which means you can shop around for the best deals and save some money.

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