Remember how Sony sneakily added a PSN account requirement to Helldivers 2 after launch, thereby making it unplayable in the long list countries PSN still hasn’t been rolled out to? And then Sony region-restricted a bunch of PC ports in those same countries, like God of War Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us 2 Remastered? And then remember how people complained so much that was all undone?
Apparently Sony forgot the last step, because upcoming tag fighter Marvel Tōkon has been region-restricted on Steam in 132 countries that don’t have access to PSN.
I say that was all undone, but for some reason Until Dawn remains region-restricted. Fortunately, nobody cares about Until Dawn. Marvel Tōkon, on the other hand, has excited a bunch of players, and obviously appeals to the global fighting game community in countries where the genre’s particularly big like Pakistan. Wouldn’t you know it, Pakistan is on the region-restricted list. So is the Dominican Republic, Morocco, Egypt, Fiji, Jamaica, Monaco, and Vatican City, where I guess they’ll just have to keep playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
Rack up another loss for Sony, fresh off PR disasters like its retreat from physical sales, the U-turn on singleplayer games coming to PC, and doubling down on AI, which it thinks can “unleash the creativity of studios and further enhance the PlayStation experience.”