ranmafan
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So I just found out a bit of interesting information from a friend here in Japan about certain ps5 upgrades to games that as far as I know hasn’t been talked about. He decided to download His copy of “No Man’s Sky” on his PS5 to play with the ps5 upgrade. However he told me he had to pay a ¥100 fee in order to get the ps5 version. I thought this was strange as the upgrade is supposed to be completely free. So I checked the PlayStation store here in Japan and found this is true:
It says if you have the PS4 version you will need to pay ¥100 for the ps5 download version. This doesn’t just apply to those with the disk version as his PS4 version was digital originally. This is also true for Borderlands 3 as well. This as far as I know hasn’t been communicated by anyone from Sony or by any of the media and I fear this will become the norm in Japan. There used to be a ¥100 fee for Z rated games on PlayStation Plus until this month but that’s now gone. But this just seems so wrong. So a heads up to fellow gamers in Japan and who buy Japan based games. You might see such fees on these upgrades.
Update - please read post 26 for new info but it does appear that in at least one case, for borderlands 3, the ¥100 fee was added due to a Japanese law and a legal ruling of some sort. Here’s a link in Japanese that mentions it:
4gamer article on Borderlands 3 next gen upgrade in Japanese
the most important part is the paragraph with an * at the beginning
It says if you have the PS4 version you will need to pay ¥100 for the ps5 download version. This doesn’t just apply to those with the disk version as his PS4 version was digital originally. This is also true for Borderlands 3 as well. This as far as I know hasn’t been communicated by anyone from Sony or by any of the media and I fear this will become the norm in Japan. There used to be a ¥100 fee for Z rated games on PlayStation Plus until this month but that’s now gone. But this just seems so wrong. So a heads up to fellow gamers in Japan and who buy Japan based games. You might see such fees on these upgrades.
Update - please read post 26 for new info but it does appear that in at least one case, for borderlands 3, the ¥100 fee was added due to a Japanese law and a legal ruling of some sort. Here’s a link in Japanese that mentions it:
4gamer article on Borderlands 3 next gen upgrade in Japanese
the most important part is the paragraph with an * at the beginning
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