Spider-Man Remastered Soon Available for Standalone Purchase

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Yesterday, Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog that Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered will soon be available for standalone purchase on the PlayStation Store. As a reminder, the remastered version of 2018's game was previously only available as part of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered can now be bought for $49.99. Regardless of the physical or digital nature of their entitlements, owners of the original game have the chance to upgrade to the remastered version for $10.

While some PlayStation users are happy at the news, others who were previously told the standalone purchase and upgrade path weren't possible feel quite differently.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered was released for PlayStation 5 as a launch title. It includes all of the DLCs released for the base game (The City That Never Sleeps) as well as the technical improvements brought by Miles Morales, such as near-instant load times, greatly improved graphics (with ray tracing support), and haptic feedback/adaptive triggers support for the DualSense controller.

In August 2022, Insomniac released the game on PC as part of Sony's plans to expand the presence of PlayStation games on the platform. It was the first port handled by Nixxes Software following the Dutch studio's acquisition by Sony. The result was very good, as I noted in my hands-on test.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered PC is yet another example of Nixxes' technical expertise. To begin with, it's the first Sony game on PC to support both AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (2.0) and NVIDIA's Deep Learning Super Sampling image reconstruction techniques at launch. Granted, it is also the first to include ray tracing support for reflections, whereas the previous