{"id":560618,"date":"2026-05-01T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:47:10","slug":"the-outer-worlds-will-offer-free-ps5-remaster-upgrade-amidst-delistings-and-price-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560618\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outer Worlds Will Offer Free PS5 Remaster Upgrade Amidst Delistings and Price Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Obsidian Entertainment has shared plans that detail how it’s going to handle The Outer Worlds<\/a>, the original RPG, going forward. They involve delistings of the base game on certain platforms and price drops, but on PS5 and PS4, the news is only positive.<\/p>\n

If you own the base version of The Outer Worlds on PS4 before 27th May 2026, you will get an automatic upgrade to the Spacer’s Choice Edition<\/a> on PS5.<\/p>\n

This is being done because the developer is removing the original version from most storefronts on the aforementioned date, except for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch \u2014 it seems to be a decision mostly affecting PC. As such, anyone who owns the base game on PS4 before the cut-off date is only benefiting from the changes.<\/p>\n

After 27th May, there are also going to be some permanent price drops. The latest Spacer’s Choice Edition on PS5 shall receive a $20 price cut, dropping the cost to $39.99.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Since the Spacer’s Choice Edition will soon be the default version of the game, Obsidian Entertainment is going back and patching the RPG some more. It released in a broken state on PS5 in 2023, and despite a few post-launch updates, it’s still not in the best condition.<\/p>\n

A new patch is live today, and a second, more significant one will arrive later in May. The latter will contain “performance fixes, lighting changes, a host of other quest and gameplay fixes”, and a new combat option: grenades.<\/p>\n

Learn more about today’s update and the future one in the patch notes on the developer’s forum page<\/a>. On PS5, you are looking for version 2.5.7.0 to update to.<\/p>\n

When it was first revealed, the Spacer’s Choice Edition of The Outer Worlds was pitched as a “remaster” that had “higher resolution graphics, a dynamic weather system, overhauled lighting and environments, improved performance and load times, enhanced details on characters, and much more”. It was meant to run at 60 frames-per-second with a 4K resolution, along with PS5 DualSense controller support.<\/p>\n

The hope will be it finally achieves all that once the second patch drops at the end of this month. It’ll have another new playerbase to satisfy, as anyone owning the PS4 base game gets the upgrade for free. Due to these flaws the Spacer’s Choice Edition opened to a 13-point drop on Metacritic<\/a> at launch. While the original version earned an 85, the Spacer’s Choice Edition dropped all the way down to a 72.<\/p>\n

Will you be taking advantage of this offer? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n

[source store.steampowered.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tRelated Games<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he’s found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obsidian Entertainment has shared plans that detail how it’s going to handle The Outer Worlds, the original RPG,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,192412,197,112,86,92062,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-private-division","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-the-outer-worlds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}