More Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War details have leaked through in-game files of Call of Duty: Warzone as we near the title's reveal via the Battle Royale shooter, and they don't make for the best of reading. According to Charlie Intel, three different editions will be made available by Activision and if the descriptions of each are anything to go by, you won't be able to upgrade the base version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War for free.
We wouldn't take this as confirmation until the publisher has put out its reveal and the listings are live on the PlayStation Store, but the data does seem to strongly suggest that you'll need to spend extra cash if you want to get your hands on that elusive PlayStation 5 upgrade for free. A specific cross-gen version will be made available alongside the usual Ultimate Edition, and both of these make note of an upgrade to PS5 when the option becomes available. However, the base version of the game does not make any mention of that. The pricing details of these three editions haven't yet leaked, but you have to assume that the base version will be the cheapest of the lot.
If this is proven to be true, Activision will join 505 Games in becoming yet another company to blur the lines on how a free PS5 upgrade should be done. How do you react to this? Do you think it's fair to lock the PS5 upgrade behind a more expensive version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War? Let us know in the comments below.
[source charlieintel.com]
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Seems this is publishers crafty idea of getting around the free upgrade to next gen system, control publishers have come up with a BS speech of so called reason why and now Activision which isn't to anyone suprised it coming up with new ways to do it as well
Seems like this is the common trend with alot of publishers now . The best solution is to just wait for the next gen versions to come out and not buy any of these games on current platforms.
Ahh, the wonderful future of gaming. Don't you just love it? Get a good whiff, you'll be smelling a lot of this crap in the near future.
The whole cross-gen phase is always the worst part about a new generation. Just going to have to put up with this at launch and probably next year as well.
Or you can just wait for the PS5 version, problem solved.
Or, just have a little patience & just buy the PS5 version in the first place. That's what I did with Black Flag & Battlefield 4 at the PS4 launch. Its not hard.
They will probably be cheaper on PS4 anyway so an upgrade should only cost the difference between the two copies if Activision are playing fairly
Activision being extremely greedy and arrogant? Well color me shocked!
Simple, you just don’t buy the game, carry on with COD MW under the back compat mode if it works, and buy the next COD when they release a cheaper PS5 version, last thing you want to DJ is line EA and Activisions pockets!
It's only going to be expensive if you make it expensive for yourself. Lack of info for both systems I know but with the latest games you may as well wait for the next gen versions, I know I am!
Sooo not exactly a free upgrade then XD
At least this info is out before the release of the game, you now know not to buy the PS4 version & just wait for the PS5 version. That's what I'll do anyway.
Buy it on ps5 when it come out, or buy the physical ps4 version and sell it when ps5 version come out.
@Ichiban I remember when I preordered black flag on ps4 it came out before the ps4 console even did same with cod ghosts, so had two games I had sat on the shelf for a while.
Money grabbing *****! All they think about is money.. it used to be you would get a free upgrade if you had purchased the last gen versions no matter what version it was! Either they’ll make a killing with people paying for the more expensive version or micro transactions or both! Activision suck!
@Flurpsel exactly!
I’ll just hope the rumours are true and SOCOM is coming out on launch day with PS5! That’ll be me set
@iceno1 I would love that to be a reality I really would!! Or the old Desert Storm games they were GOOD childhood moments.
Absolute shocker, Activision have found a way to cash in on this too.
I am being a BOOMER here? But why on Earth do people expect to essentially get 2 games for the price of 1? If you want it on PS5, wait and buy it there.
Of course Activision does this as well. I won't buy then. I'm always on the fence about each new release anyway.
I'll be grabbing this Cod when it's a tenner in CEX tbh
@Salohcin I think what bothers people is that a lot of devs are offering the next gen upgrade for free. So it doesn't seem like it's such a hard thing to do.
When the Devs from Control (that has been out for quite a while) locked the upgrade behind the most expensive version of the game, it was quite weird. And now, I guess people feel like more and more companies will follow
Yeah, I guess you can see this as "2 for 1". But so many companies are going down the free upgrade road. Why would it be so hard for others to do the same? Specially in a game that's gonna have loads of season, add ons, skins etc
@jamberino93 ohhh I loved they games.. blast from the past right there.. they were amazing.. even Full Spectrum warrior was a great game.. graphically amazing at the time.. really need games like this again and call of duty seems like the only military game out.. ghost recon has lost the plot compared to OGR/GR2/Summit and graw series
@Salohcin that’s what’s gonna happen but console gen change shouldn’t be a big deal for big company’s just to supply a free upgrade for the new console.. money grabbing *****.. Activision, 2K and Ubisoft are scum of the earth these days.. micro transactions and dlc they rip the proper piss out of gamers.
@iceno1 They put time and effort to making these upgrades. And they are fully giving you the opportunity to only buy what you want. they aren't forcing you to buy one version then the other. You can wait to get the better version.
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