Ghosts of Tsushima PC release delisted from Steam in 170 countries

What you need to know

• The PC release of Ghosts of Tsushima: DIRECTOR’S CUT, the definitive version of the award-winning 2020 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by PlayStation maker Sony, has been delisted from Steam in over 170 countries.
• This news comes after Helldivers 2, another game published by Sony, was heavily review bombed when Sony tried to reintroduce a PSN account linking requirement despite selling the game in non-PSN regions.
• Sony reversed its decision, but not before Helldivers 2 was delisted from the same non-PSN countries that Ghosts of Tsushima is also now unavailable to purchase in.
• The news also comes after Sucker Punch announced PSN account linking would only be necessary for users playing the co-op multiplayer mode Legends, and a few days before Ghosts of Tsushima’s scheduled May 16 launch on Steam.
• At the time of writing, it’s unclear if Sony or Valve — Steam’s developer — chose to halt sales of the game in these regions.

One week ago, the popular PC and PS5 co-op shooter Helldivers 2 went into a review bombing uproar when PlayStation publisher Sony announced plans to reintroduce a PlayStation Network (PSN) account linking requirement despite the fact that the game was sold in over 170 countries where PSN isn’t available. Though Sony reversed its decision, the game was (and still is) delisted from Steam in those regions — and now, the impending PC release of PlayStation’s Ghosts of Tsushima has been as well.

SteamDB data shows that earlier on Friday, sales of the port of developer Sucker Punch’s award-winning action title were halted in non-PSN countries in an update to its backend. Notably, this news comes after Sucker Punch publicly announced players would only need to link their Steam account to a PSN one for Ghosts of Tsushima’s co-op multiplayer mode Legends, and also less than week before the PC release’s scheduled May 16 launch.