@JapaneseSonic I totally agree. All the other games getting "free upgrades" aren't really getting upgrades at all. They are simply being made to run as they are on PS5. Very little work going into them. As a side effect of being on a system multiple times more powerful than PS4, they might run at higher framerates or resolutions. But that's not taking much if any work on the developer's part to accomplish. For Spider-Man (and to an extent, Control) they are reworking a lot of the graphical elements and introducing new effects. They are actually putting effort into this. I wouldn't expect that to come for free on a 2 year old game. The most that I'll accuse them of is not releasing the first game as a standalone remastered title. But chances are, if you REALLY want to play through that game remastered, you probably haven't played it at all yet and you'll want the whole package including Miles anyway. Also I bet after 6 months they do release it standalone. But overall, there's nothing wrong with how Sony is handling this. Nobody complained about GTA V hopping from PS3 to PS4 and asking full price... And the improvements there were not as drastic as they potentially are here.
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Re: Reaction: Spider-Man PS5 Debacle Shows Sony Is Out of Touch
@JapaneseSonic
I totally agree. All the other games getting "free upgrades" aren't really getting upgrades at all. They are simply being made to run as they are on PS5. Very little work going into them. As a side effect of being on a system multiple times more powerful than PS4, they might run at higher framerates or resolutions. But that's not taking much if any work on the developer's part to accomplish. For Spider-Man (and to an extent, Control) they are reworking a lot of the graphical elements and introducing new effects. They are actually putting effort into this. I wouldn't expect that to come for free on a 2 year old game. The most that I'll accuse them of is not releasing the first game as a standalone remastered title. But chances are, if you REALLY want to play through that game remastered, you probably haven't played it at all yet and you'll want the whole package including Miles anyway. Also I bet after 6 months they do release it standalone. But overall, there's nothing wrong with how Sony is handling this. Nobody complained about GTA V hopping from PS3 to PS4 and asking full price... And the improvements there were not as drastic as they potentially are here.