Cloud Saves not showing on Steam from PS4 version

[EtherEli]

Hello all,

I started the game on PS5 with the PS4 disc and have manually saved and logged into my R* Social account and enabled cloud saves in settings. But, I just bought the game on Steam and when I get to the start menu and choose Load, I get a message that there are no save slots.

Is there any fiddling I have to do beyond logging into my social account on both platforms?

[eli_GO]

Saves from one platform are only valid for that same platform, i.e. PS4 to PS5, XBOX One to XBOX Series and, for example, from Epic Games to Steam in the case of PC. Any saved games you have on PS4/PS5 will only be transferred between them because they are part of the same family.

[EtherEli]

Oh, that’s a bummer

[TheDizzle78]

Originally posted by eli_GO:

Saves from one platform are only valid for that same platform, i.e. PS4 to PS5, XBOX One to XBOX Series and, for example, from Epic Games to Steam in the case of PC. Any saved games you have on PS4/PS5 will only be transferred between them because they are part of the same family.

Some games have cross platform saves, like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, but those are decided by the devs and not part of Steam cloud service.

[EtherEli]

Originally posted by TheDizzle78:

Originally posted by eli_GO:

Saves from one platform are only valid for that same platform, i.e. PS4 to PS5, XBOX One to XBOX Series and, for example, from Epic Games to Steam in the case of PC. Any saved games you have on PS4/PS5 will only be transferred between them because they are part of the same family.

Some games have cross platform saves, like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, but those are decided by the devs and not part of Steam cloud service.

Yeah, I just thought because I logged into R* social and there was a setting in-game to enable could saves that they would transfer to any platform I logged into my R* account with. Like it seems odd it can transfer save files within the same platform family but not across platforms if the cloud save is through the publisher and not the platform itself (ie my save game isn’t with PSN or PS+, it’s with R*, and I can log into my R* account on both PSN and PC devices).

I can accept there might be technical reasons why it isn’t that way but it seems the same to me, from the end user side, as logging into my CDPR account for Cyberpunk and Witcher or my Larian account for Baldur’s Gate. Hell, I’ve been doing this across PC and Switch since 2020 with Hades, so it’s surprising Rockstar/Take-Two can’t pull it off. Or won’t, more likely.

I get why they don’t for their online games but for just my single player saves, it seems weird, and at this point I’m still in the return window for my Steam copy and I’m debating refunding it since I’d be starting from scratch otherwise, so why not just stick with my PlayStation game exclusively.