Single-player saves won't transfer in cross-gen games
A $10 fee to go from a current-gen game to a next-gen upgrade might sound enticing on paper, until you realize that you won't be able to bring your single-player save progress with you.
To ease the transition into the next-gen, both PS4 and Xbox One offer ways of upgrading cross-gen games on the cheap. And while games like Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghosts will allow players to transfer their multiplayer stats between generations, single-player data will be lost when moving between generations.
A Kotaku report specifies that a number of fall releases will not allow players to import their single-player save progress. These titles include Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Assassin's Creed 4. Considering that the latter is largely built on a single-player experience, the lack of cross-gen save files might be an important detail to consider.
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A $10 fee to go from a current-gen game to a next-gen upgrade might sound enticing on paper, until you realize that you won't be able to bring your single-player save progress with you.-
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PS1 to PS2, GameCube to Wii
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That isn't quite the same thing though. Especially if all it does is look to see if a save is present. It would be entirely different if it had to load actual game assets.
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I think you're missing it? They're indicating that if you have the XBox 360 version of BF4, the save game won't transfer over to the XBox One version. It is the same game but on a new system.
My Tetris cart carried over the save file regardless of what generation the game was played on. I did not have to delete my GB save to play on the GBA; it was compatible and carried over regardless of what system I plopped the cart into.
Now, I don't expect cross-gen compatibility for games. However, to say that I wasn't bringing my saved game over cross generation is wrong. It clearly did. The difference in scenario is that my cartridge could hold the save file, while a disc obviously cannot do so. Considering the cloud save options for both systems you think this still wouldn't be an issue, but whatever.-
But you didn't use the old save with a GBA release cart of Tetris. That's the comparison here.
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How do you know the raw data in the save file isn't the same raw data, encapsulated in a different platform-specific header and/or DRM encryption scheme?
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Because it won't transfer over and presumably if it were that simple, it would.
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Who cares, dont you always play through a great game again when you update your graphics card.
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AC4 is most definitely not.
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I care ... I would have bought AC4 for 360, but I figured the saves wouldn't transfer to XBone, so I'm getting it with my XBone instead.
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That said, it doesn't bother me that much ... GTAV should tide me over for awhile.
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Because this is the first time they're trying to entice upgrading to the next generation with cheap upgrade fees?
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I'm not really upset, I figured the saves wouldn't transfer.
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Dude. You have so much anger! homeboyJim brought up a valid point: since these publishers are allowing gamers to upgrade current-gen versions of certain games to next-gen versions, it makes since to presume that save data might carry over as well. It's not a deal breaker, just kind of a bummer.
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Its news because of the upgrade program. That has never been done before either.
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meh, who cares.
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So even PSN+ users with Cloud Saving won't be able to transfer progress? Huh....
If true that really doesn't make sense to me....PS4 will still have PSN+ correct?-
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Huh, yup still not making sense, since I would think that the next gen consoles versions would just come with flashier graphics/better performance. I wouldn't think that would change the way the save file is formatted. Ah well. All this was curiosity anyway, no plans on getting a console as long as my PC holds up.
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Same here. 500 bucks goes a long way for PC upgrades.
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Least of my worries
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