Ghost of Tsushima on PC is now region-free and Steam Deck verified

While Sony’s PC initiatives have been mostly a success, one of the biggest controversies with the console maker’s recent PC ports has been its use of region locking as a result of their integration with the PlayStation Network. Fortunately, Sony seems to be backtracking on this somewhat, with an update to Ghost of Tsushima on PC removing the region-lock requirements while also adding official Steam Deck verification.

In a surprise update, the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima has gotten a highly appreciated patch. As mentioned, the biggest change with this update is the decoupling of Ghost of Tsushima’s base game from its Legends multiplayer mode, allowing all PC players across every region to now be able to purchase and play the game.

Beyond this, the other major improvement comes in the form of official Steam Deck Verification support, including a dedicated Steam Deck graphical preset for added ease-of-use.

Other ancillary changes and improvements arriving with the update include:

• Various user interface optimizations for Steam Deck
• Fixed a crash related to Steam Input
• Updated AMD FSR to version 3.1.4
• Various performance optimizations and stability improvements
• Fixed a crash on start-up that could occur on the Epic Games Store with some Bluetooth audio devices connected.

Sony’s PlayStation Network requirements on PC was not only a controversial decision, but one which actively prevented millions of potential players from purchasing the title even if they wanted to. As such, this latest change comes as a major and welcome surprise to PC players. Hopefully other PlayStation games on PC receive similar updates in the coming future.

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