One of the first big releases of 2024 is a remaster of a game that isn’t even four years old.The Last Of Us Part 2 Remasteredlaunches on January 19, giving you the chance to experience the sequel again with enhanced visuals forPS5, or play it for the first time if it’s been sitting in your backlog. Thankfully, if you already own the game and you fancy replaying the remaster, you won’t have to pay $50. you may just upgrade the copy you already own for $10.
Naughty Dogconfirmed The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered will be available via a $10 upgrade track pretty quickly after news of the remaster’s release was made official. Fans started to criticize the studio for remastering a game so soon after its initial release, and the upgrade addendum significantly softened the blow. If you do already own a copy of The Last Of Us Part 2 onPS4, now all you need to know in time for January 19 is how you get your $10 upgrade.
Digital Or Physical
It’s not too complex but if, like me, you have activated a $10 cross-gen upgrade before, it can be a little tricky. There are differences depending on whether you own a digital or physical copy of the original game, and there’s also the often tangled mess that is bringing your save with you should you want it. I still have flashbacks to trying to bring myCrash 4save from my PS4 to my PS5, and then again withFinal Fantasy 7 Remakewhen it was time to play the Yuffie DLC.
If it’s a digital copy of The Last Of Us Part 2 you’ll be upgrading, all you’ll need to do ishead to the remaster’s store page from January 19 and pay $10 for the upgrade. Triple-check before pressing anything that your PS5 is aware you have bought a copy of the sequel in the past. Go in guns blazing and you may well end up with a brand new digital copy of the remaster, paying $50 for the privilege even though it could have cost you just $10.
The process is slightly more involved if you’re upgrading a physical copy of The Last Of Us Part 2. While you will again need to go to the remaster’s PS Store page,the game’s disc will need to be in the console before you can purchase the $10 upgrade, just to make sure you still have it. Bad news for those of you with physical copies of the game who opted for a digital-only console this gen.
Transferring Your Save
Even though many of you will likely be starting the game all over again, you will have the opportunity to import your save should you wish to. Naughty Dog has confirmed that’s possible but hasn’t outlined details on how to make that happen. Hopefully, that means the save will be imported automatically and be there waiting for you when you load up the remastered version of the game for the first time.
That may well be dependent on where your save file is being kept, though. If you played through The Last Of Us Part 2 on PS4 and haven’t played it since on your PS5, it will likely be a case of retrieving the save yourself, especially if you played on a physical copy. If you still have your PS4 and it’s connected to the same WiFi as your PS5,you may transfer data from your old console to your new one wirelessly.
The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered launches on PS5 on June 07, 2025, and it will be a lot more than just a better-looking version of the sequel. Naughty Dog has also added a roguelike mode to the game and included lost levels that were cut from the original. That’s a lot of additional content for $10, and something to tide us over while we wait to seeKaitlyn Dever’s Abby in the TV adaptation’s second season.
