Upgrading your Control PS4 save to Control Ultimate Edition on PS5 is a bit of a hassle
Control Ultimate Edition publisher 505 Games has clarified how you can carry over your progress from the original version of Control on PlayStation 4 to the game’s newly-released Ultimate Edition on PlayStation 5.
Doing so is possible, but you’ll need to still have your PS4 in order to do it.
“Unfortunately, save data from the base PS4 game isn’t compatible with the PS5 Ultimate Edition,” a 505 Games customer service rep told Control fan cormack12, who posted the response on NeoGAF.
“The PS4 base game saves are compatible with the PS4 Ultimate Edition, however. Additionally, the PS4 Ultimate Edition is eligible for the free PS5 upgrade, in which the save data will be compatible.”
This means you’ll want to have the Ultimate Edition on your PS4 first to go log into so it can load your save – and then re-save it, I guess? – into a format the PS5 version of the Ultimate Edition will then work with.