Only the new ‘Control Ultimate Edition’ will get Upgrades of next gen


Remedy makes an ‘Ultimate’ version of for Control that includes the honestly brilliant main game, start-up patches and season pass extensions. The $ 40 package will be available on Steam – meaning the title is no longer an Epic Games Store exclusive to PC – PS4 and Xbox One. If you buy the game on console, you will also get a “next-gen-optimized version” for PS5 or Xbox Series X when it is available later this year.

There’s just one problem: existing Control owners are excluded from that compliment upgrade to next gen. The free upgrade path to Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 version of Control is only available for Master Ultimate Edition, “publisher 505 Games confirmed in a blog post. So if you’ve already spent $ 60 on the base game and $ 25 on the season pass, you’ll have to spend another $ 40 – bringing your grand total to $ 125 – to play both the original as following gene-optimized versions Ultimate Edition is a lot of offer for newcomers, but just feels a little difficult for early adopters who tolerate the game’s randomly inconsistent performance on console.