PlayStation: No more Free PS5 updates from PS4 for own games

The untitled Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse follow up is a forthcoming American computer-animated superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales/ Spider-Man, created by Columbia Photo as well as Sony Pictures Computer animation in association with Wonder, as well as distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) as well as is embeded in a shared multiverse of alternating cosmos called the Spider-Verse. The movie is being routed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson from a screenplay by David Callaham, Phil Lord, as well as Christopher Miller. Shameik Moore voices Morales, starring alongside Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, and also Issa Rae.

Sony started creating a sequel to Into the Spider-Verse prior to that film's launch in 2018, with the writing as well as directing team attached. It was readied to concentrate on the connection in between Morales as well as Steinfeld's Gwen Stacy/ Spider-Woman. The film was formally introduced in November 2019, as well as computer animation work started in June 2020. The film is set up to be released in the USA on October 7, 2022, delayed from a preliminary April 2022 date because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A female-focused spin-off movie is likewise in development.

In case you missed it, PlayStation recently announced that not all versions of the next sequel of the video game Horizon forbidden ​​would include a free PS4 to PS5 update route. That is, before even more recently he reversed the course and announced that anyone who buys a forbidden West for PlayStation 4 could be updated to the PlayStation 5 version for free. And although that could be good news, in general, for the fanatics of horizonte forbidden, the announcement also came with a great warning that, in the future, exclusive titles of first generation between generations, such as Horizonte West prohibited is - no Offer this same update for free. Instead, it will be an update pay for the physical and digital versions of these videogames.

Last year we promised to offer free updates for our launching titles between generations, which included horizonte forbidden, said Jim Ryan, president and executive director of Sony Interactive Entertainment. While the deep impact of the pandemic prompted _ewest forbidden out of the launch window that we initially imagine, we will maintain our offer: players buying Horizonte West forbidden_ ​​in PlayStation 4 can be updated to the PlayStation 5 version for free.

I also want to confirm today that, in the future, the first generation exclusive titles of PLAYSTATION (recently launched at PS4 and PS5), both digital and physical, will offer a $ 10 USD digital update option from PS4 to PS5, continued Ryan. . This will apply to the next God of War and Gran Turismo 7, and any other exclusive PS4 and PS5 cross-generation title published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

As for Horizonte forbidden, the next title will be launched for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on February 18, 2022. Neither the next God of War, apparently titled _dios of war: Ragnarok, nor gran Tourism 7 has a final launch date Until now. You can check all our previous PlayStation coverage in general here.

What do you think about the confirmation that PS4 to PS5 updates will be a cost paid in the future for PlayStation's own titles? Are you still waiting for the launch of titles as the next God of War and gran tourism 7 regardless of that? Let us know in the comments or do not hesitate to contact me directly on Twitter in @rollinbishop to talk about everything related to games.