Nioh 2 PS4 Patch Adds Cross-Save Support for PS5

This should had been an OS feature. Silly that every game needs to implement their own cloud transfer scheme.

@velio84 it depends on what you enjoyed about those two games in particular.
As they do share some similarities for sure, but if the key thing you liked about dark souls 3 and demon souls was the level design and lore.
You may find this game lacking a bit in that regard as even though it has a rich story it’s told in a fairly disjointed manner.
Where Nioh shines however is gameplay and combat, so if the parts you enjoyed about dark souls and demon souls was challenging bosses etc. You will very much enjoy your time.
I enjoyed dark souls 3, but loved Nioh 2 as the gameplay and character designs spoke to me personally more.
And I wasn’t the type of dark souls player that got lost in the lore 😅

@Tharsman I thought it was an OS thing but with backwards compatibility? Please correct me if I’m wrong anyone 😅
Since this is a “new title” with tweaks made on the developers end I wouldn’t expect Sony to take that into consideration in developing their transfer system.
However if I was wrong and you can’t transfers via backwards compatibility then I will agree with you

@velio84 I played through all the Dark Souls games and Demon Souls few times. Nioh obviosly has a completely different settings If you like Japanese history and mythology you will enjoy that. About the gameplay i think these games are just as hard as the dark souls game or sometimes even harder. definitely way harder than Demon's Souls. Combat is different and more complex so you need to learn and use different stances with different weapons, weapon techniques, stamina (KI) managment..very cool and enjoyable. You get similar epic boss fights, same frustrations and same joy and happiness if you're succeeded.. Amazing games just give it a go you won't regret it!

@velio84 yeah maybe not as Nioh’s combat does the heavy lifting in regards to the games quality the combat mechanics are quite deep, that being said you don’t need to memorise everything I got by just fine not knowing everything.

But yeah if God of War’s combat was a turn off maybe give this a miss, athough nioh 1 was on ps plus who know maybe down the line nioh 2 will be so you can sample it at no extra cost 😇

Does Nioh 1 have the same feature?

@Nalodart so far, if the game has a native PS5 upgrade, it will not use PSN cloud saves because they are simply two separate games, with separate achievements, and completely disconnected other than some store mean to redeem it for free (sometimes.)

Cloud saves will work on the back compat versions but you will never be able to copy that progress to the optimized version unless the game maker comes up with their own scheme to do so.

Also worth keeping in mind that so far, every game that implements these sync schemes don't sync trophies. If you start the game on the PS4 version and move to the new PS5 native version, you will have to re-earn those trophies.

@Tharsman yes thanks for clarifying, that’s what I thought.
So only games with official ps5 upgrades needs a separate scheme the developers have to implement.
Which to be honest kinda makes sense, out of interest does Xbox carry saves over via their OS even for upgraded games?
I’m wondering if it’s even feasible.

@Nalodart yes, Xbox carries saves back and forth, so long the game is using smart delivery.

You could even start playing on Series X, then continue on your old Xbox One (let's say you moved it to the office room) and then go back to the living room Series X. Every time you launch the game it will check for cloud save data automatically and sync.

So, it's very possible.

Smart delivery games in Xbox also are sharing the trophy lists, so they are also always in sync and the same progress.

@Tharsman that sounds great but do most games use this smart delivery?
Xbox always seemed a bit ahead when in came to online infrastructure lol

@velio84 None of the other responses mentioned it from what I see, so I’ll say this -

Nioh is the love child of Diablo and Dark Souls.

I’m not making that up, the devs literally referenced diablo before the first game. So while you have bonfires (shrines) and other dark-souls like mechanics, you also have the loot of a game like diablo, and finding the right gear with the right bonuses is definitely part of the game, where in a souls-like the gear is often just fashion-souls.

@Nalodart so far, yes, smart delivery is being used a lot. Every first party game uses it, as well as (so far) Ubisoft and Sega games. Even Control, if you get the Ultimate Edition, uses Smart Delivery.

It's actually easier to list the games that don't use it.

In my experience, it's mostly been EA and Take Two going around smart delivery with their sports games. Oh and Call of Duty Cold War didn't support it either. So, the usual nickel and dimers, basically. Sony is about to join the list as The Show 21 for Xbox wont support smart delivery either (nor offer upgrade paths for PS4->PS5 other than buying the whole thing all over again.)

Will the trophies carry over? Because I'm like far into this and don't fancy starting again and had to do this with some other ps5 games like watch dogs legion for example, thanks