Activision may have clarified that Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2’s PS4 and PS5 versions will be simple ports as opposed to full remasters, but fans remained excited about their arrival nonetheless. Unfortunately, Call of Duty: Black Ops fans have become less than thrilled thanks to the notion that they could be paying for DLC maps again, which is a real possibility following some recent store updates.
Prior to this potential discovery, PlayStation fans were thrilled at the idea of having access to these beloved gems. While the remaster of Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 3 (2023)’s collection of classic, remastered MW2 maps meant those games lived on via the newer PlayStation consoles, the first two Black Ops games have remained isolated. Sure, PC players have been accessing them just fine, and backwards compatibility meant Xbox users were in the clear, too, but PlayStation fans? If they wanted to play BO2 or BO1, they had to dust off their PS3 consoles. These ports, then, are long overdue, but the cost attached to them could prove very controversial.
Because of the PS3’s complicated architecture, the PS4 was not...
