![]() Last year we made a commitment to deliver free upgrades for our cross-gen launch titles, which included Horizon Forbidden West. ![]() However, it's abundantly clear that the offerings we confirmed in our pre-order kickoff missed the mark. ![]() Thursday was to be a celebration of Horizon Forbidden West and the amazing team at Guerrilla working to deliver it on February 18, 2022. Sony, much like Nintendo see their first party games as having an intrinsic value and a pedigree that "allows" them to pull this kind of stuff and its disheartening in the same way that Nintendo charging full price for what amounts to minor upgrades to Wii U ports is disheartening. I see it more as "Nintendo-esque", frankly but the Ubi/Activision comparison isn't totally off. As a Playstation 5 owner, it doesn't affect me as I'll be buying the PS5 versions and don't care about access to the PS4 release but for an army of PS4 owners that are looking to upgrade to a PS5 eventually, it would have been such an easy win to offer the upgrade as further incentive to jump to that new console as opposed to charging what amounts to a $20 premium. In the end, I think this is par course for their new release first party games moving forward. I wasn't paying that game much attention but the recent Ghost of Tsushima upgrade path wasn't great, either (had it been $20 for the expansion and upgrade, I wouldn't have issue but the extra $10 for a minimal upgrade is problematic). They did the same with MLB The Show, apparently. The trend of collector's editions and steelbooks without actual physical copies of the game is uniquely absurd. ![]() ![]() It's definitely disappointing to see the "for the players" brand taking Ubisoft/Activision style approaches to a lot of this stuff. ![]()
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