Last week, Remedy Entertainment and 505 Games confirmed Control Ultimate Edition along with the final DLC expansion AWE. Many were annoyed that Remedy and 505 confirmed that only the Ultimate Edition owners will get free upgrades to the next-generation versions of Control.
In the statement, 505 Games stated the reasons were some sort of blocker that prevented them from upgrading the base game. Even if the player had access to all the DLC content.
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.
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.
Understandably, there are still some questions about what this means for those that already own Control on current gen consoles and we hope to clear this up.
505 did state that players can still play the game on PS5 and Xbox Series X through backward compatibility.
This likely won't satisfy many, especially those with the base game hoping for the upgrade.
Control is now available for PC, Xbox One, and PS4.
Adam Siddiqui,
Managing Editor, NoobFeed
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