FIFA 22 doesn't offer a free next-gen upgrade to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S

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FIFA 22 South Korean won't offer a free next-gen upgrade for those who purchase the standard edition of the game.

Finished the erstwhile weekend, the FIFA 22 release date was undraped for the first fourth dimension, with the gamy overdue to launch this October on some live and current-gen consoles alike. In a new FAQ posted on the official FIFA website, EA reveals that only those who purchase the Ultimate Edition of FIFA 22 will qualify for a free upgrade to future-gen consoles.

This Ultimate Edition of FIFA 22 is priced at $99.99/£89.99, so it's passing to set you back a funfair bit if you want to purchase the newly game happening both last and current-gen systems. This is the only way to udder yourself a free upgrade of FIFA 22 for PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S, so if you buy out the standard edition of the biz on PS4 or Xbox One, you'll motive to pay for it all again to get a native side by side-gen version of the lame on any console. Players will too need to give slightly more for the close-gen standard edition, which comes in at $10/£10 more than it's last-gen counterpart.

This is a completed turnaround from finish year's FIFA 21, which offered an solely free next-gen upgrade. Atomic number 102 affair the version of the game that players purchased with 2020's FIFA 21, everyone was guaranteed a next-gen upgrade for the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S versions, substance there wasn't a need to shell out much money for the upgrade.

Over on the FIFA subreddit, nonpareil drug user has worked out that if you combine the EA Wager discount and the 10% off bonus for pre-ordering the Ultimate Variant of FIFA 22 through FIFA 21, you'll stupefy a combined 20% off the Ultimate Edition of FIFA 22. The drug user notes that this has worked for the past tierce iterations of FIFA, and it's back once more this twelvemonth.

EA finally revealed FIFA 22 just yesterday on July 11. As you can see in the functionary reveal lagger for the next iteration of the sports sim honorable below, Kylian Mbappé is the chief cover superstar for FIFA 22, with Heung-Min Son, Phil Foden, David Alaba, Trent Alexander-Arnold, and Christian Pulisic joining the young superstar connected the hide of certain versions. There's shortly to hold back until FIFA 22 launches on October 1 later this twelvemonth.

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