It seems Sony has not adopted a unified improve programme for PS4 games migrating to PS5.
One of the Xbox Series X’s largest benefits is the Smart Delivery service, a platform function that ensures gamers purchase one copy of the game to personal it on any Xbox console they’ve now and sooner or later. Many anticipated Sony to have an analogous scheme for PS5, however this will likely not really be the plan.
Following this week’s information that Madden NFL 21 will offer the same upgrade path across PS5 and Xbox Series X, Japanese website Gamespark contacted SIE Japan to make clear whether or not gamers can count on a Smarty Delivery-style answer on PS5.
According to native PR (as translated by @Bk2128), Sony is leaving it as much as publishers to determine how and when to supply cross-gen upgrades. In different phrases, there doesn’t seem like any unified system, that means publishers are free to set the principles and limitations.
Another attention-grabbing wrinkle to this information is that EA confirmed within the Madden NFL 21 press launch that house owners of the bodily model of the game on PS4 will be unable to improve to the digital model, in case they go for the disc-less PS5 Digital Edition.
This isn’t notably shocking, seeing as EA can’t confirm possession of a bodily copy with out the existence of the disc. It is, nevertheless, attention-grabbing that every platform holder has its personal method to cross-gen upgrades.
It’s additionally price conserving in thoughts that Microsoft doesn’t mandate Smart Delivery, so publishers who signal on there’ll probably supply the identical courtesy to PS4/PS5 house owners.
