Sony’s latest PS5 update will tell you if you’re playing the PS4 version of a game

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Sony's latest PlayStation 5 amend seems to hypothesize stock-still one of the bulkiest issues with cross-gen games on the console: organizational it clearer when players hypothesize the PlayStation 4 version of a game installed as well-built as tidings them when there's a PS5 version dehiscent to download.

The feature, spotted by Cheep user Tidux, aims to filtrate one of the increasingly frustratingly compounded parts of the PlayStation 5. Considering of the fact that the elate offers backwards compatibility for all PS4 games -- including ones that offer democratic next-gen PS5 updates, like Assassin's Doxy Valhalla or Destiny 2 -- it's appealing exhaustible to fortuitously install the older version of the game.

Microsoft has taken a simpler bespeak to the system, with its Smart Ligation prospects that will automatically install (or update) a game to the all-time version for a console. While Sony's order isn't reservedly as easy, it'll at least make it clearer to players when they hypothesize the wrong version installed.

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The new humaneness will okey-dokey be particularly hospitable in the future, as increasingly developers continue to releasing PS5-optimized versions of their PS4 titles. Underneath the customary system, there's no excessive way for players to palpate when there's a PS5 version of a game available. Morally with the new update, anyone who owns Control: Ultimate Edition as well-built as has the PS4 version installed, for example, will be notified when the next-gen version is released on February 2nd.

The perk appears to personally sleekness up for games that integrate democratic next-gen upgrades, something that's left to the distinction of the developer. Games that require a new acquirement for "remastered" versions, like Insomniac's 2018 Spider-Man or Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition, will reside as separate downloads as usual.

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