Confirming a leak that emerged before the game’s reveal, official listings have now verified that Black Ops Cold War has a “cross-gen” bundle: meaning you’ll have to pay more for a next-gen upgrade. And boy is the upgrade path complicated – although at least it’s all coming with cross-generation cross-play.
Pages on the PlayStation and Microsoft stores price the cross-gen bundle at £64.99, compared to the standard current-gen edition which costs £59.99. Buying the digital standard edition means you can later upgrade to the PS5 or Xbox Series X version through either the PlayStation Store or Microsoft Store, likely for a fee given the standard edition is cheaper than the cross-gen bundle.
When it comes to physical editions, things get a little more complicated: the standard physical PS4 version will be upgradable to the PS5 version through the PlayStation Store (probably still for a fee). The standard physical Xbox One version, however, cannot be upgraded to the Xbox Series X version – so you’ll have to buy the more expensive physical next-gen edition. Not that they look all that different.
