Ghost Of Tsushima Director's Cut no longer available on Steam in almost 180 countries due to PSN requirement
Ghost Of Tsushima Director's Cut no longer available on Steam in almost 180 countries due to PSN requirement
Ghost Of Tsushima will no longer launch on Steam in 180 countries where PSN is unavailable, despite PSN not being required for its singleplayer mode.
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i don't get sony, even if people wouldnlt care to create a psn account. They just sell a game is less countries, means less money. What's the benefit of it?
My hypothesis: They are preparing to compete with Steam, and to do so they need to have a compelling argument to make PC gamers consider their store instead of Steam. EPIC became relevant by giving free games for years; Sony will build an exclusives' portfolio and then launch its own store. As this store will be available only where PSN already is, they probably don't want to commit to keep the game working on these countries after migrating from Steam, so better to not sell now to avoid headaches later.
Ah. An EEE move by Sony? Embrace (Steam), Extend (add PSN requirement), Extinguish (bye Steam).
I don't think they can replace Steam, PC gamers trust Steam... a lot. But with the exclusives they can have an offer compelling enough to be real competition. Maybe offer the game on PC and their consoles for example (that would be neat).
It's a guess... with no real evidence to to it, but i wouldn't say it's impossible. The current interim CEO Hiroki Totoki has said they want to make more money on PC bringing more games to PC. Maybe he has bigger plans on that plattform. But only because you have a account on something doesn't really mean you buy games on that plattform. Don't know how much origin or ubisoft make money with their accounts, i'm sure it's way more on steam?
They may not be prepared to do business in those countries, or modify their service to meet those countries' legal requirements.
Of course they are not prepared, but then don't add a requirement for a game if you now prepared.
More money in tracking people in rich countries and selling their data maybe?
I don't think there is a real evidence to that at the moment. So far Sony is probably know for hmmm bad secrurity of data, but i don't know about selling data.
I don't think that the kind of data Sony (PSN) has enough value to be considered an asset.