Hogwarts Legacy next gen is £70 – doesn’t seem to have free upgrades

metro.co.uk:

Pre-order listings for the Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy price it at £70 for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S and £60 for everything else.

It looks like Warner Bros. could be joining Sony and Take-Two in the ‘£70 for new games’ camp. Following the Hogwarts Legacy State of Play last week, pre-orders for the long-awaited Harry Potter roleplaying game have gone live at various retailers.

At UK store GAME, it’s listed as £69.99 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S and £59.99 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. There’s no listing for the Nintendo Switch version (which was very quietly announced via the official website), but it’s safe to assume it’ll cost £59.99 as well.

American retailers like Best Buy also have it down as $69.99 for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S and $59.99 for the other three platforms. However, places like Smyths have the game listed at £59.99 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S so it’s very likely that these prices are placeholders. There’s also no word on how much it’ll be on PC.

We won’t know for certain how much Hogwarts Legacy will cost until digital pre-orders go up. If Warner Bros. does plan on charging £70 for the game, however, this will probably apply to Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League as well.

The listings may have also revealed that there will be no upgrade path for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users. If you look at the box art for the Xbox versions, you won’t find the Smart Delivery logo in the top right corner, which denotes which games come with a free copy of the current gen version (if you bought it on Xbox One) or last gen version (if you bought it on Xbox Series X/S).

There’s also the fact that Xbox games with free upgrades tend to come packaged together anyway. A look