PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X: Saved Games, Import and More

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X

Comparisons are inevitable. Now that there is less and less for us to see the new consoles on store shelves, many users will be reviewing the differences between PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X for a possible purchase.

What about my saved games?

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Something that players have demanded with special interest is backward compatibility. Being able to play the games you already have at home is extremely important for many, especially those who have endless collections of games on their shelves.

But it is one thing to replay a game on your new console, and another is to be able to continue the game where you left off. That’s where the saved games stored in each player’s profiles come into play, a detail that Microsoft seems to have quite controlled and that Sony might not have paid much attention to.

The mess of saved games

It all starts with Spider-Man . The fantastic PS4 game will have a remastered version for PlayStation 5, and after many questions, Insomniac Games had to clarify that the saved games of the original version of PS4 could not be loaded in the remastered version of PS5.

This obviously generated a sea of ​​doubts, and although the developers have clarified that Spider-Man: Miles Morales will allow importing saved games in its cross-gen version, it does not seem that this is the general trend that we find in PlayStation 5.

Not at least in DiRT 5 , where Codemasters has confirmed that game saves in the game cannot be passed from one generation to another (only creations can be imported into Playgrounds). Considering that the game comes out on November 6 and that PlayStation 5 does so on November 19, many users may prefer to wait to play on PS5 so as not to lose all the progress by changing consoles.

Microsoft, meanwhile, in the cloud

But things at Microsoft work differently. As the company itself has explained, all the saved games of the games you enjoy on Xbox One can be loaded onto Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in a completely transparent way.

The function is a way to complete the excellent Smart Delivery features , which will allow you to play on one console or another no matter when you buy the game, and it will take care of loading the games regardless of the generation, so you can even continue that old game of Kameo that you left forgotten on your old Xbox 360. It is certainly one more demonstration of the pampered attention that Microsoft has paid to its new consoles and in everything that has to do with backward compatibility.