Dead Cells' Free PS5 Upgrade Promises Next-Gen Features This Week

Finally!…still, better late than never…

Need repeating : this is one of the best games on the PS4. Fantastic gameplay, wonderful pixel art, engaging game loop, great music and absolutely incredible support from the team.

Very glad to see it with a native PS5 version, İ hope it will bring even more people to it.

@Olmaz 100% agree. Its my fave metroidvania so far and i really cant wait for this beauty to drop..more people should check this out as it really is superb. I also have to add its shocking pushsquare never reviewed this game..maybe a before and after feature should be published 😉

A game that will get PS6 features on PS5? You probably meant "current-gen", not that stupid marketing BS that has been around since the PS3 era. I thought we went over this.

Great news, I was going to buy all DLCs and now it can be the physical version.

@Rhaoulos Is it though, 'cos the PS4 is still around - as in you can go to a shop or digital store front and buy a brand new, in box, PS4 Slim.

This gen is so confusing...

@sanderson72 PS4 is now last-gen, and PS5 is current-gen. There is no next-gen now.

A lot of the issue is with media outlets, including Pushsquare, incorrectly still referring to PS5 upgrades as 'next-gen'. You'd think that they at least would get their terminology correct. They should just say 'game x is getting a PS5 upgrade'

I wasn’t expecting this until August, so I’m over the moon that I can upgrade Dead Cells to the PS5 version for free this very week. With incredible combat, gorgeous pixel art and constant developer support, this is my all-time favourite indie game and now, following on from the recent Return to Castlevania DLC, I have a whole new reason to dive back in!

FPS Bump? Would be great to have 120 fps and no motion blur

@themightyant I totally get what you mean with the feeling of a lack of progression after some time, and this is where the free updates and the DLCs came in.
Between making the game fully customizable, new biomes, new weapons, new unlockables, new modes and so on, you really get enough variety to motivate you into playing again.

@themightyant in my oppinion it does mate.

Uncapped FPS to 120 with VRR would be so sweet

This is great. Didn’t finish it on Steam Deck but might pick it up on PS5 for the new features.

@themightyant I never got all the way through even once. I’d get past a couple bosses and then not sure what happened. I may have just shifted focus to another game.

I really enjoy the way the game feels to play though. Smoothest rogue style game I’ve ever played, anyhow!

@sanderson72
Next: being the first one after the present one or after the one just mentioned (from Cambridge dictionary).

"next-gen" is a marketing BS, regardless of the old gen still being around. It's like talking about today as "next Tuesday". It would sound incredibly dumb. The day a new gen is released, it should be considered current gen.

The only reason it was called next gen is because Sony and Microsoft wanted to have a much more powerful generation and invented that dumb term so stupid people would think it was revolutionary. Today (which still isn't called "next Tuesday" btw), it has no meaning whatsoever. Also a PC should be called "gen-after-next" if you still want to call your ps5 "next-gen".

One of the best games on PlayStation

Do you get the free upgrade with ps plus extra version and do the saves carry over if yes to both may have to give it another go as sold my disc copy but loved what I played of it

ya I'd like to know if saves can be transferred from PS4 to PS5 and if trophies will auto-pop or not. I can't start this game over again. The plat took too long.

@Rhaoulos it's getting old people are stating PS5 is next gen. That ship sailed PS6 is next gen and somehow doesn't seem that far away tbh.

Pretty neat they're going to give us next gen features from machines that don't exist yet on current gen hardware. We've only been in the current gen since November 2020, how are people still ignorantly using the "next gen" tag? Launch day is when it goes from next, to current. It doesn't matter what games are out, how long it's been out, whether you still don't have one yet, etc, the day it launches it becomes current.

@sanderson72 the PS4 factually being a last gen console has no bearing on the fact the PS5 is the current gen console and PS5 will be next. There's nothing confusing about that. The day a console launches it is now the CURRENT GEN; it is the primary focus for the company and developers. Power, games, features, length of time on shelf, etc mean jack *****. The day it launches, the old hardware becomes last gen and the new hardware is current. You as a consumer can almost never play, touch, or even own any next gen hardware.

@Rhaoulos @RobynAlecksys Yes, I understand the meaning of next thanks!

What I mean is that websites. including this one, seem to interchange their definition of 'current gen' and 'next gen', as is the case with this very topic.

Next gen now is PS6 (i.e. vapourware), current gen is PS5 and last gen is PS4. Seems fairly clear cut to me but when we keep seeing tag lines with 'next gen features' and the like, it muddies the water.
Also doesn't help with the amount of cross-gen titles still coming out almost 3 years after the tub o' lard released (does this make the PS4 last gen but current for software support?)

29th June, 1800 and still no sign of ps5 digital version, also Motion Twin have confirmed on their twitter that ps4 saves will not transfer 😮‍💨

@sanderson72 i get you as its not hard to understand. To be honest all current gen games should be using the features that have been the focal points of the ps5 such as haptic feed back etc. As much as i love my ps5 i do feel that devs are not tapping into its true potential and last gen is still holding back the promised ps5 quality. Maybe one day.

No ps4 to ps5 save transfer, what a massive shame, there's far too many other games to be played instead of starting all over again.