After months of waiting, PS5 owners who don’t have a PS4, Xbox One / Series X | S or no PC, finally try Yakuza: Like a Dragon. However, for some PS5 users it is painful to discover SEGA’s excellent RPG.
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Yakuza: Like a dragon is one of those titles released on both PS4 and PS5, benefiting from a free update system that allows you to switch from the first version of the game to the second without having to spend extra dollars. The problem is that some PS5 owners are currently unable to run this update.
As the site reports Press square, PS5 users downgrading the PS4 version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon are currently unable to download and install the update to downgrade the PS4 version to PS5. The menu of the console and the PlayStation Store only invites you to buy the game for 59.99 dollars. There is no option to do the next generation update. We were able to check for this bug on a PS5 when we tried several times today to update the PS4 version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Return to normal TBD
Note that this issue only affects owners of a dematerialized version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Indeed, Indeed, people with a physical PS4 version are invited to upgrade to the PS5 version without encountering any bug.
At the time these lines are written, SEGA has not yet understood the situation. The causes of this error or the return to normal have not yet been mentioned by the Japanese publisher. As a reminder: Yakuza: Like a Dragon benefits from the free update from PS4 to PS5. However, backups cannot be transferred from one version to another.