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What you are describing definitely happens, but it is 100% up to the specific game dev implementation. Some games indeed require that weird dance with "launch p

What you are describing definitely happens, but it is 100% up to the specific game dev implementation. Some games indeed require that weird dance with "launch ps4 game on PS5, launch it, download ps5 version, launch ps5 version, etc." But plenty of PS4 games that got corresponding PS5 versions don't require that, and getting your PS4 saves on PS5 version of the game is as simple as just launching the PS5 version and continuing from there, without any dances surrounding PS4/PS5 version swapping (assuming you have your PS4 save files either locally or in the cloud). Which makes me reasonably believe that it isn't an issue inherent to PS5, but to how the specific games implemented that save file import functionality between PS4 and PS5. Despite that example you used being a bit flawed, I totally agree with the rest of the general points you've made.

ascagnel_ 5y ago
Some games have been patched to resolve the issue; however, that's something the developer needs to do (and QA), so it won't happen on every game. Compare it to what Microsoft does (developers get that functionality by default), and it's frustrating as a user. Along the same lines, Sony also has issued different title IDs for bundles vs. the base game. Horizon: Zero Dawn[0] is one such example; I had the disc version, beat that game, and then wanted to play the expansion when it was made available free-of-charge last year. However, the free version was a different title ID (CUSA10237) than the disc version (CUSA07326), and neither was updated to pull the save file from the other version, so I was stuck restarting the game from scratch instead, losing about 60h worth of progress. This isn't a hardware issue, it's entirely in that Sony hasn't made the proper investments in their backend or system software to make these transitions seamless.

ascagnel_ 5y ago

Some games have been patched to resolve the issue; however, that's something the developer needs to do (and QA), so it won't happen on every game. Compare it to what Microsoft does (developers get that functionality by default), and it's frustrating as a user. Along the same lines, Sony also has issued different title IDs for bundles vs. the base game. Horizon: Zero Dawn[0] is one such example; I had the disc version, beat that game, and then wanted to play the expansion when it was made available free-of-charge last year. However, the free version was a different title ID (CUSA10237) than the disc version (CUSA07326), and neither was updated to pull the save file from the other version, so I was stuck restarting the game from scratch instead, losing about 60h worth of progress. This isn't a hardware issue, it's entirely in that Sony hasn't made the proper investments in their backend or system software to make these transitions seamless.