Sony might not make you pay to improve Horizon Forbidden West after all. The company’s Interactive Entertainment leader Jim Ryan introduced that Forbidden West PS4 gamers gets to improve to the PS5 model for loose, as Sony promised final September. The tech giant “overlooked the mark” and could stand through its authentic pledge, Ryan said.

The extrade of coronary heart comes after Sony and Guerilla advised clients they had be restricted to the model of the sport they bought. If you began out on PS4, in different words, you’ll have to shop for every other replica to take gain of PS5 features.

Don’t anticipate a comparable concession for different PS4-to-PS5 upgrades. Ryan made clean that every one first-celebration cross-technology exclusives “shifting forward” might consist of a $10 improve choice for the PS5 edition. If you choose up the subsequent God of War in your PS4, you will nonetheless ought to pay for the PS5 release — you simply might not ought to pay almost as much.

This pricing might not have an effect on third-celebration studios, a number of that have presented loose PS5 updates (which include for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order). However, it does set expectations. Sony truly desires game enthusiasts to cowl the fees of PS5 updates, and releases like Forbidden West are the exceptions to that rule.