It's a pretty exciting week if you're a fan of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, as the game is receiving a next-gen upgrade for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, but unfortunately (and bizarrely), it comes with quite a few catches on Xbox.
The biggest of these is that if you bought Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 physically for Xbox One, there's seemingly no way of accessing that next-gen upgrade, other than buying the entire game all over again (thanks TheGamer).
Strangely, the same can't be said of the PlayStation 4 version, so this appears to be limited to Xbox alone.
"If you’ve purchased a digital version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One or a disc version on PlayStation 4, you’ll be able to upgrade your version of the game within the same console family and bring your game progress with you!"
There's still bad news for digital owners of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 as well, as if you haven't bought the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game, you'll be required to pay an extra $10 in order to get access to the Series X and S upgrade.
It's a weird strategy all around, especially as Activision's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time upgrade was free for all current owners on Xbox One, but it is what it is. For those who get access to it, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 on Xbox Series X/S will see the game jumping to 120 FPS at 1080P, or 60 FPS in native 4K, along with other graphical upgrades including sharper dynamic shadows and reflections, enhanced skater textures and much more.
What are your thoughts on these upgrade limitations for Tony Hawk? Let us know down below.
[source support.activision.com, via thegamer.com]
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Activision is gonna Activision... They love to make things as convoluted and stupid as possible...
Oh DEAR. That's not good.
Was it because the game doesn't support Smart Delivery?
A great game but god do I despise Activision...
Seems every good release they have is a fluke in spite of the abysmal management policies at the company.
Not impressed...
£10 extra for a next-gen upgrade when most other publishers are offering a free upgrade? No thanks.
Is this a bug or a feature?
Can't they fix this or was it by design on purpose?
@Nightcrawler71 Activison is weird they've done it for Crash, but not for this or Call of duty. Gotta pay for Kotick's Bonuses I guess.
Why not disc version of Xbox? Hopefully this is a mistake that they can fix.
This will get enough backlash if its not a technical issue they will probably reverse it.
In a very odd way this is kinda hilarious after all the 'smart delivery' for the win comments over the past weeks - but in truth its very odd and will surely be fixed some how down the line. With the xbox being so much easier to upgrade than the playstation the only reason can be Sony have paid them to do this? Perhaps a 1 year exclusive deal perhaps?
Stupid delivery
The disk version makes no sense at all when they are doing it for the PS4 disk version apparently. But $10 more when I paid $40 last summer doesn't strike me as end of the world.
It's just the Deluxe price I didn't feel necessary to get back then to get a few additional clothing items. If they had said Deluxe version AND Next Gen upgrade, I would have gotten it without question.
I'll be spending the $10. My wife adores the game and plays it a lot. I want to see the next gen as well...
Thrashers skate or die >>>>>> any thps
Every time I read a new Activision news story, I feel more and more glad that I've completely boycotted them since 2009.
@MarzoriuM lmao. Was about to say - the smug smart delivery articles don’t look so clever now.
Its £10 more for the smart delivery option even on digital so I don't see what the problem is
So why did Activision support Smart Delivery for Crash 4 but decide not to with this and to charge for an upgrade as well?
And even stranger, with COD Cold War, you could pay the upgrade fee for the disc version, so I don't understand why they aren't doing the same here?
Activision showing people that you shouldn't assume anything in life, especially from a company who likes to make a quick buck whenever they can.
@pepsilover2008 This instance makes no sense though. Call of Duty's next gen version could be purchased physically or digitally. Yes, the cross-gen version was $10 extra, but what has happened with Tony Hawk is almost completely different.
The digital version is the same, but people who bought it physically on Xbox being the only people not to be able to upgrade it is quite possibly the most baffling thing of this generation and we're only a 4 months in.
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