Asobo Studio's A Plague Tale: Innocence received its free next-gen upgrade yesterday, and the team has caused a bit of a stir on social media after explaining the cross-save process for the game on Xbox and PlayStation.
Like many other titles, A Plague Tale: Innocence utilises Smart Delivery on Xbox, meaning you get "automatic cross-progression" between Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, while PlayStation 5 owners have to jump through a slightly bigger hoop in order to access their PS4 save files on their PS5s.
As you can imagine, the replies to the tweet are filled with comments about Xbox Smart Delivery, with fans praising "how easy it makes everything", how it "just works", and how last year, it was written off by some as a "buzzword".
Jumping through a few hoops isn't the worst situation for PlayStation users, of course, but in the case of games like DOOM Eternal, which haven't incorporated cross-gen saves from PS4 to PS5 whatsoever, it makes us very, very thankful that Xbox decided to make Smart Delivery such a big part of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S's launches.
What are your thoughts on Smart Delivery in general? Tell us down in the comments section below.
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It's laughable how this feature was essentially mocked most of last summer and now watching PS5 users twisting in the breeze trying to access previous gen saves while Xbox players just load up the game. I've seen numerous people on Twitter talk about firing up an Xbox 360 game on their Series X and finding a 10 year old cloud save waiting on them
So yeah... "It just works" 🤣
It's great firing up a really old save and picking up where you left off all those years ago. Brings back memories of the game
All I can say is for the FF7 Remake PS4>PS5 save file transfer and upgrade, I had to guide my friend step-by-step as he didn't have a clue! Sums it up really.
@Generik yeah saw someone on a forum I frequent, trying to justify it saying its to do with how much more optimised the PS5s SSD is and PS4 saves couldnt work with it and it was MS and id's fault that his Doom eternal save wouldnt transfer over.
Couldnt possibly accept had they put the effort in they could ahve built a universal system.
Got to admit that at the start I thought it was just a “buzzword”, or a gimmick, but after hearing about all the hoops PlayStation users have to jump through I really appreciate it.
Hopefully this wins the vote for next month's gamepass club game. Looks interesting and heard good things about it.
I love Smart Delivery - it's just been the absolute best!
Download patch. Done. No hurdles.
No going to the Microsoft Store to "claim" the upgraded version.
No having to keep the old version to transfer save data using some kind of in-game tool, download the new version, complete and verify a successful save transfer, then deleting the old version.
As the saying goes, "it just works"!
I am also happy for this Plague Tale update. I started the game a little while ago but stopped due to just how sluggish the game felt at 30fps (and knowing that a Series X version was on the way). I just wanted to give it a try since it seemed to be highly reviewed by sites I visit.
60fps feels so much better - Series X and PS5 has spoiled me.
As someone who has owned both a PS5 and Series X, there is absolutely no contest between them in usability.
On PS5 I put a cross gen game in, have to tell it not to install the PS4 version every time I wanted to play it, fiddle through menu's to find my cloud saves and hope I don't have to boot the last gen game up to transfer, search through my entire library of games including disc based to find a game to play and no way to organise this mess
On Xbox just sign in and everything is where I already put it, or put a disc in, game automatically is the correct version and automatically gets my save file
Why are the graphics so horrible on Series X compared to One X???
@blinx01 I've only had issues with that game as well. My brother has a ps5 and I have the series x, and the things he had to do to continue playing were something else. The game's odd upgrade path didn't help either.
@carlos82 to be fair neither system is perfect. Xbox is better with saves and some things, PS better at others.
The automatic downloading of PS4 + PS5 versions was fixed a while back and is much clearer now in the UI which you are getting.
XSX|S also has a few annoyances too like downloading multiple copies of the games when you have multiple storage drives and not automatically updating all downloaded games, only a selection that they think you are going to play soon.
Thankfully both are still improving their software.
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