With EA’s Dual Entitlement you can buy FIFA 21 on Xbox One or PS4 and upgrade to the next-gen version for free.
EA has announced that FIFA 21 will launch on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 9 2020, sliding it in at the tail end of the current console generation. Fortunately for those fans who are currently thinking more about the next-generation PS5 and Xbox Series X, FIFA 21 will be a part of EA’s new Dual Entitlement scheme.announcedFIFA 21PlayStation 4Xbox OnePS5Xbox Series X
With Dual Entitlement, players who purchase FIFA 21 on PS4 or Xbox One will be able to upgrade to the corresponding next-generation version free of charge. Basically, it sounds like EA’s version of Xbox Smart Delivery. Xbox Smart Delivery
At the moment, EA hasn’t confirmed a release date for the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of FIFA 21—news on that will be coming later in the year—but the free upgrade will be available from the release of FIFA 21 later this year until the release of FIFA 22 sometime in 2021.
In an FAQ, EA has detailed some rules around the upgrade that need to be followed but they appear to be fairly straightforward, the most important being that you can only upgrade from Xbox One to Xbox Series X or from PS4 to PS5—there’s no crossing platforms here.
