505 Games has taken to its website in a bid to try to explain why Control‘s next-gen upgrade will come at a cost.
As we detailed last week, those who’ve already purchased Control on Xbox One and PS4 will need to re-buy it as Control Ultimate Edition in September for the lone upgrade path to Xbox Series X and PS5.
“We spent several months exploring all of our launch options for Control Ultimate Edition and no decision was taken lightly. While it is challenging bringing any game to next gen platforms, we quickly realised it was even more difficult to upgrade our current user base to next gen with full parity across platforms with our year-old game,” 505 wrote.
“Every avenue we pursued, there was some form of blocker and those blockers meant that at least one group of players ended up being left out of the upgrade for various reasons. As of today, we can’t offer an upgrade to everyone, and leaving any one group out feels unfair. We understand that is not what you want to hear.”
It’s unclear what those “blockers” are — though we’d chalk up things like ray-tracing and the like there — but it’s also unclear why 505 Games hasn’t made the decision to upgrade those who’ve already purchased Control and its Season Pass to Control Ultimate Edition for free, thereby giving them the upgrade to Xbox Series X and PS5.
On the flipside, it’s understandable that the work required to provide next-gen features will come at a cost to developer Remedy and publisher 505 Games and that the latter would like to recoup some of that labour. Right? Sound off in the comments area, below.
Control is currently available on Windows PC via Epic Games Store, Xbox One and PS4; it heads to Steam alongside the AWE expansion on all platforms from 27 August.
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