📋 SPECIFICATION

• 🎮 Title: ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE
• ⭐ Edition: Deluxe Edition
• 🎯 Platform: PlayStation 5
• 💿 Format: Physical Disc
• 🏢 Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
• 🛠️ Developer: Bandai Namco Aces
• ✈️ Genre: Flight Shooting / Action
• 👤 Single Player: Yes
• 🌐 Online Multiplayer: Yes
• 👥 Online Players: Up to 8 on PS5
• 🤝 Online Co-Op: Supported
• 🌍 Cross-Platform Play: Supported
• 🎮 DualSense Support: Vibration & Trigger Effects
• ⚡ PS5 Pro Enhanced: Yes
• 🎮 Remote Play: Supported
• 🌐 PS Plus: Required for Online Multiplayer
• 🛒 In-Game Purchases: Optional
• 📅 Release: October 2026

The official PlayStation listing confirms support for up to eight online players, optional online play, DualSense vibration and trigger effects, Remote Play and PS5 Pro enhancements. PlayStation Store

🎁 DELUXE EDITION CONTENT

The Deluxe Edition includes:

• 💿 ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE Base Game
• 🎨 Customizable Cosmetic Set
• 🎟️ PREMIUM ACE PASS PLUS Voucher

The cosmetic set includes multiplayer customization content, while the Premium ACE Pass Plus voucher unlocks the premium rewards track for the applicable season and instantly unlocks 30 Premium ACE Pass levels. Bandai Namco Europe

🎨 CUSTOMIZABLE COSMETIC SET

The Deluxe Edition’s additional cosmetic content includes:

• 👤 Tasha Costume Set for the multiplayer lobby
• ✈️ F-4E “MOBIUS SQUADRON” Skin
• ✈️ F/A-18C “TEAM ZVEZDA” Skin
• 🚀 Scarlet Missile Smoke Customization

The aircraft skins are intended for online multiplayer aircraft and become available for Campaign Mode after completing the campaign. Bandai Namco Europe

🎟️ PREMIUM ACE PASS PLUS

The included PREMIUM ACE PASS PLUS Voucher provides access to the premium rewards track for the applicable season.

It also provides an immediate 30-level Premium ACE Pass unlock, giving Deluxe Edition owners additional progression benefits. Bandai Namco Europe

✈️ BECOME “WINGS OF THEVE”

The campaign takes place in July 2029 after the Federation of Central Usea is overwhelmed by an invasion from the Republic of Sotoa.

With the military scattered and hope fading, you’re given the name “Wings of Theve”—the identity of a legendary ace associated with the FCU capital.

Together with three new comrades, your mission is to fight back and reclaim your homeland. Bandai Namco Store

🎯 HIGH-SPEED AERIAL COMBAT

ACE COMBAT 8 continues the franchise’s signature combination of spectacular military aviation and accessible arcade-style flight action.

Take control of powerful aircraft and experience:

• ✈️ High-Speed Dogfights
• 🎯 Missile Lock-Ons
• 💥 Large-Scale Aerial Battles
• 🚀 Powerful Weapons
• 🛩️ Fighter Jet Combat
• 🌥️ Dynamic Skies
• 🎯 Mission-Based Objectives
• 🎬 Cinematic Action Sequences

🌥️ AERIAL WARFARE IN LIVING SKIES

Campaign Mode introduces detailed dynamic multi-layered cloudscapes, creating dramatic aerial environments as battles unfold around you.

Weather, clouds and atmospheric conditions contribute to the visual spectacle while you manoeuvre through high-speed combat encounters. PlayStation Store

🎬 CINEMATIC SINGLE-PLAYER CAMPAIGN

The story extends beyond the cockpit with first-person narrative scenes exploring your pilot’s journey.

Between combat missions, you’ll interact with squad members and experience the human side of the conflict while progressing through the campaign. PlayStation Store

🌐 ACE COMBAT ONLINE

ACE COMBAT 8 introduces the largest online mode in the series.

Players can enter the franchise’s first dedicated online lobby, explore an air base using a customizable avatar and then sortie into multiplayer battles with pilots around the world.

Online features include:

• 🌐 Online Multiplayer
• 🤝 Co-Op Missions
• 🌍 Cross-Platform Play
• 👤 Customizable Avatar
• 🛩️ Online Air Base
• 🎮 Multiple Multiplayer Modes

Online multiplayer on PS5 requires PlayStation Plus. PlayStation

🎮 DUALSENSE CONTROLLER SUPPORT

The PS5 version supports both DualSense vibration and trigger effects, helping add additional physical feedback to the aerial combat experience. PlayStation Store

⚡ PS5 PRO ENHANCED

ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE is officially listed as PS5 Pro Enhanced, allowing compatible PS5 Pro hardware to take advantage of supported enhancements. PlayStation Store

💿 PHYSICAL PS5 EDITION

This product is the physical PlayStation 5 Deluxe Edition, making it ideal for players who prefer owning a physical game disc rather than purchasing the base game entirely digitally.

Bandai Namco confirms that the Deluxe Edition is offered as a physical disc release for PlayStation 5 in participating markets. Bandai Namco Europe

📦 WHAT’S INCLUDED

• 💿 1 × ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE – Deluxe Edition PS5 Physical Disc
• 🎨 Customizable Cosmetic Set
• 🎟️ PREMIUM ACE PASS PLUS Voucher