Bungie Tells PS5 Players To Stop Playing The PS4 Version Of Destiny 2 - Kotaku

Bungie, the workplace behind Destiny 2 and the older Halo games, has a nationalist work announcement for each of its PlayStation 5 guardians: Double cheque that you are really playing the PS5 mentation of the crippled and not the PS4 version! Don’t consciousness atrocious if you are playing the incorrect mentation though, Sony has done a unspeakable occupation with each of this stuff.

Destiny 2’s next-gen ports launched alongside the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles backmost successful 2020. While they weren’t new games, they were improved versions of the old-gen originals, with higher solution and 60fps support. They adjacent loaded faster and felt snappier wide than the PS4 oregon Xbox One versions. So astir players made the escaped leap to the next-gen editions of Destiny 2, assuming they owned a next-gen machine. On Xbox this was easy. You just…downloaded Destiny 2 connected your Xbox Series X and that was that. Over connected the PlayStation 5, things aren’t arsenic casual and it seems a “notable” fig of Destiny players connected Sony’s fancy caller console are still, successful 2022, really playing the aged PS4 larboard and not the fancier PS5 mentation of Bungie’s online shooter.

In its play blog post, This Week At Bungie, the workplace included a tiny PSA astir the situation, explaining that a “notable fig of PS5 players” were not playing the next-gen port, but were stuck playing the older, slower PS4 mentation of Destiny 2. To remedy this, Bungie pointed users toward a circumstantial webpage created by Sony to assistance explicate however to download and instal the close mentation of your circumstantial crippled connected PS5.

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While I’m definite this PSA volition assistance immoderate folks out, it’s yet different reminder of however Sony is acold down Microsoft and its Xbox Smart Delivery System. I and galore others joked astir Smart Delivery astatine the time. “What a silly buzzword! Who cares!” we said. Now, it’s go 1 of the champion things astir the Xbox ecosystem.

On Xbox, I ne'er deliberation astir this stuff. I conscionable deed download and the close mentation of the crippled installs connected my instrumentality and each the saves and everything just…work. On PS5, I person to excavation astir to instal the close mentation oregon successful immoderate cases, I person to install some games to transportation saves betwixt them. It each feels similar it’s held unneurotic with duct portion and doesn’t look similar a bully mode to grip immoderate of this. It shouldn’t instrumentality six steps to play the close crippled connected the close console!

And portion this contented volition go little and little of a occupation arsenic less and less games are released crossed some console generations, it makes maine tense astir however each this volition enactment connected the inevitable PlayStation 6.

Meanwhile, for those inactive playing Destiny 2 connected Xbox One oregon PS4, Bungie besides shared the quality that it’s shrinking the game’s representation footprint by compressing immoderate textures. It offered up immoderate examination shots to amusement however small the textures are affected by the caller strategy and it looks good. Anything to assistance marque games smaller and much businesslike sounds large to me!