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Bungie says ‘notable number of PS5 players are playing the PS4 version of Destiny 2 on their current-generation console’
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Swipeyowifelike
Member
We're they using disc or did they download it?
Rendered Tangent
Banned
I have only ever downloaded digitally on ps5, so I can't honestly speak on what happens with a disc.
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Reminds me of Amazon Prime where you previously had to select UDH or HD. Just give me UHD cause l want the best picture doh.
Synless
Member
If it were that simple then there wouldn’t be a large number of people who have the ps4 version downloaded instead. Fact of the matter is, it should be more intuitive for people and it isn’t. So yeah, it’s Sony’s issue.
DaGwaphics
Member
That is weird. Hopefully they get that fixed before the slim gets released.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
PlayStation improved greatly remember psn? Now we’ve having a conversation that ps plus is better than gamepass.
Pedro Motta
Member
Filthy casuals.
dreamstation
Member
Funny but whenever I buy a PS4/PS5 game it always gives me the "download PS5 version" option
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playsaves3
Member
Did they ever add the option to uncap the resolution mode on a vrr screen?
Eddie-Griffin
Banned
720TV's are rare in stores these days, sometimes you may find them boxed on shelves if they are 32inch or less, maybe 40, but those are usually where they put the 1080's these days.
Best Buy and Walmart have done a good job removing their 720p supply.
Oddvintagechap
Member
not even, a 1080p tv their cousin had in their garage the past 3 years.
offering to download a PS4 app when the a native PS5 app is available is incredibly stupid and this is Sony’s fault. It is obvious that this issue has already been pointed out for years, so they must have some pretty bad dependencies that would make efactoring that part of the store a pain in the ass, so they leave it like that.
As a developer, I understand why they would prefer not to touch it, as a consumer, fuck this shit.
As a developer, I understand why they would prefer not to touch it, as a consumer, fuck this shit.
sainraja
Member
What game in particular are you having this issue with?
I haven't had any issues like that when using a PS5 disc. The issue is definitely there with PS4 game discs, where people upgrade via the upgrade voucher. With the PSN store, as the poster you are responding to is saying, you get presented with both options and you choose which you want to install. Not saying this is ideal. It can definitely be better.
If what you are saying is in relation to a PS5 disc, then I wonder if it just that particular disc and how the system recognizes it?
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EDMIX
Member
Agreed.
I support the idea of choice as let the consumer decide. Lots of logical reasons exist why someone would want to actually play one version over the other.
Its even more odd that anyone would even consider this "confusing", are some of you really telling me you don't understand 5 comes after 4 or? lol Are some of you serious? You don't need some new tech do tell you a fucking 5 represents the PS5 after the PS4, this is a level of slow like those that sued McDonalds as if they didn't know fast food made them fat.
Shit, if only we had some way of the company solving this for us, wouldn't want to use them brainz...
sainraja
Member
Many games have two versions right now. They can't hide the PS4 version from existing on the PS4 as the system is backwards compatible. They need to focus on improving the workflow for playing a game that has been upgraded by the player.
The system is doing what it is suppose to do....play the PS4 version from the PS4 disc and if that version isn't found install it. The logic there needs to change.
The system is doing what it is suppose to do....play the PS4 version from the PS4 disc and if that version isn't found install it. The logic there needs to change.
hemo memo
Gold Member
Horizon Forbidden West PS5 version/disc.
Mibu no ookami
Member
Preach, just preach. It's quite scary.
Mibu no ookami
Member
There's a lot of things that Sony SHOULD do. Their UI is crap, but the question is WHY is it crap.
These people aren't oblivious, so my thinking is that there is a disconnect.
The PS5 UI feels significantly worse than the PS4 UI (imo). This is the problem when you decide to entirely revamp a UI instead of iterate on it.
This should be fairly easy and simple given the evolution PlayStation over the years.
Compare XMB to what we have now and it is just overly engineered garbage with fewer features... The hardware is advancing but the software isn't.
BreakOut
Member
Download.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
It defaults to the PS5 version and has done so for over a year now. You have to manually select the PS4 version.
TwiztidElf
Member
Can't believe this took to page 3 for someone to say.
Folks be saving space on the SSD for other PS5 games.
ZehDon
Gold Member
Huh. For all the PR bullshit that floated around launch, it honestly surprises me that it's Xbox's "Smart Delivery" that turned out to be kind of not bullshit. I honestly never thought this could be a problem and kind of wrote off "Smart Delivery" as non-sense. Yet, here we are. Strange times.
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BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Yep, It's pretty dumb that I have to choose what version to install on my PS5. I have a PS5. Of course I want that version. One should have to go way out of their way to even install the PS4 version.
Zekra Dezivad
Member
I love to have the possibility to select wich version I want to download, sometimes I play the ps4 version to use my DS4s, to do some trophy hunting or to play right from my USB HDD saving SSD space. I find it very useful.
kapshin
Member
I like that you can do either but it should opt for the best version. There are some games that the PS4 version was better on PS5? Elden ring or cyberpunk I think not sure.
Edit add: this is a video game fan message board, not every average consumer would know what we do, but they should still get the best experience for what they pay for/use.
Are you an expert in everything in life? Not likely neither am I. People know and are better at different things. I went to college and have a good job,that doesn't make me better than someone that went to trade school and is an expert electrician, I can't do what they do either
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Guilty Gear Strive kept installing the PS4 version by default when I switched to PS5. I caught it before playing but it's definitely a link to work out. FFXIV is also super confusing because there are like 5 or 6 editions in the drop down to choose from but you can only play the version you are licensed for.
sainraja
Member
That's odd. If you had upgraded to the PS5 version and purchased the PS4 version then the issue you are describing matches what everyone else is saying. I haven't heard of it happening with a PS5 disc game.
I mean, it doesn't do that on mine.
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DaedalusGrim
Banned
You would have to be pretty dumb to be playing the ps4 version believing it to be the ps5 one, js.
Drizzlehell
Banned
I don't get this argument. When you buy a cross-gen title, the first option you get after checkout is to download the PS5 version, and it's the only version that gets this dedicated download button during the purchase process. And then when you download the game from your library, you're first being taken to a separate screen that lets you choose between versions.
You'd really have to be a brainlet to somehow accidentally download the PS4 version at this point.
AGRacing
Member
To this day whenever I put my original Ghost of Tsushima PS4 disc into my PS5 (after purchasing the PS5 upgrade) it tries to install the PS4 version. If I restart the system with the disc in... it tries to install the PS4 version...
After 2 years of using both I do think I'd judge the Microsoft solution to be superior. I'd judge the Sony approach as "shoulder shrug".
After 2 years of using both I do think I'd judge the Microsoft solution to be superior. I'd judge the Sony approach as "shoulder shrug".
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ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Thats a little harsh on the Playstation players.
sendit
Member
I'm ashamed to have a friend that did this.
The same thing happens to me so annoying and alot of the times the icon looks exactly the same too.
Georges Chiellins
Member
Not joking here, but that's me.
The house I live in was fully furnished, so TV's not mine. Old LG from early 2010s. Not a smart TV. 1080p only and only 2 hdmi ports.
Since I got my PS5, I've only beaten two games on it. Both are PS4 games
Maneater and Days Gone.
01011001
Banned
Not joking here, but that's me.
The house I live in was fully furnished, so TV's not mine. Old LG from early 2010s. Not a smart TV. 1080p only and only 2 hdmi ports.
Since I got my PS5, I've only beaten two games on it. Both are PS4 games
jesus christ, get a $500 4k TV and throw that shit out
Georges Chiellins
Member
Couldn't care less.jesus christ, get a $500 4k TV and throw that shit out
Also, in SA, TVs are expensive and a hassle to get (as an expat', I don't want to go through the hassle of getting a TV licence... yes you can't buy a TV here without a licence).
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I'm pretty sure it always said "PS4" on PS4 games.