A free next-gen patch for The Witcher 3 launches on December 14th, giving the aging open-world a boost if you’re playing on a PS5, Xbox Series X/S, or high-end PC.
SKU is a shipping and retail thing. It’s a unique identifier for products shipped. It has nothing to do with software versions and so forth.
Witcher 3 has a seperate entry for PS5 because they also ship a separate PS5 version.
Thing is, if I put the PS4 version of the game into the drive, and download the updates, the game I have is exactly the same as the PS5 physical. And no, it’s not downloading the entire game again.
It is a patch. Not a completely different version of the game.
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No, it is a patch:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23505545/the-witcher-3-next-gen-update-ps5-xbox-pc-hands-on
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP9000-CUSA10249_00-THELASTOFUSPART2 this game has a next-gen patch for ps5 to get higher framerates: ref https://blog.playstation.com/2021/05/19/the-last-of-us-part-ii-performance-patch-for-ps5/
note how it says [ps4]
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP4497-PPSA10408_00-00000000000000N1 this game has a next-gen SKU for ps5, to access ps5 feature sets, that they misnamed as a “patch”. note how it says [ps4] [ps5]
You’re the one mixing your terminology, bud.
SKU is a shipping and retail thing. It’s a unique identifier for products shipped. It has nothing to do with software versions and so forth.
Witcher 3 has a seperate entry for PS5 because they also ship a separate PS5 version.
Thing is, if I put the PS4 version of the game into the drive, and download the updates, the game I have is exactly the same as the PS5 physical. And no, it’s not downloading the entire game again.
It is a patch. Not a completely different version of the game.