PlayStation 5 Now Warns You If You’re About to Play the Last-Gen (PS4) Version of a Game

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PlayStation 5 owners have discovered that Sony’s next-gen console will now warn you if you’re about to play the PS4 version of a game. The addition has been confirmed by Tidux, who tweeted a screenshot of the following warning: “Confirm game version. You’re about to play the PS4 version of this game. Do you want to switch to the PS5 version?”



Sony was presumably encouraged to add this dialog after Call of Duty: Black Ops players on PS5 found themselves playing the last-gen version of the game without knowing it. As Eurogamer explained in its coverage last...

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