Gaming News This is one of the rare PS5 exclusives of 2024 and will be withheld from an entire country: Sony has confirmed this political decision!
Sensation of Sony’s latest State of Play, Rise of the Ronin, will unfortunately not be available to players in South Korea. A strange decision that Sony has confirmed and that would follow the controversial statements made by the game director about a historical figure of Japan.
Rise of the Ronin is not available in South Korea
This is one of Sony’s key exclusives scheduled for 2024. Rise of the Ronin is anticipated by many players and could well be a success when it releases next March. However, the new Team Ninja game will not be available in one country: South Korea. A decision confirmed by a Sony spokesperson D’IGN
On the other hand, we learn that the game has not been canceled in the country, but was never originally planned, contr ary to recently circulated information. “Rise of the Ronin’s release in South Korea was never officially announced. We can confirm that the title will not be sold or released physically or digitally in South Korea.
Unavailability with unclear details
Nevertheless, according to IGN, several Western media outlets have announced the cancellation of the release of Rise of the Ronin in South Korea various blogs in the country. According to these sources, which have no real basis, the game was canceled even though the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) – the equivalent of PEGI – had previously rated it. However, the GRAC rating cannot indicate cancellation, as previous titles have already been evaluated without ever being released in South Korea, such as the PS4 version of
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However, there is a Korean version of the game. The front page on the Indonesian Playstation Store shows, for example, the implementation of Korean texts. Additionally, the software would have been featured on the Korean Playstation blog in 2022, although that page has since been deleted.
Finally, rumors suggest that the game’s cancellation came after director Fumuhiko Yasuda’s statements. Last week, a making-of video posted on Playstation Japan’s YouTube account showed the director praising Shōin Yoshida, a controversial Japanese historical figure.
Even though it was a different time and a different world, I think he can be compared to Socrates. I wanted to portray his teachings and life from the moment I started working on Rise of the Ronin. Not only was he a philosopher, he also emphasized the importance of action.
Shōin Yoshida was a 19th-century imperialist intellectual who initiated a strategy to conquer several territories – including Korea – in order to strengthen Japan’s military strength. A controversial figure who remembers the difficult Japanese past and the colonization of Korea. In view of his statements and the reactions they caused, Sony has therefore decided to cancel the release of Rise of the Ronin in South Korea. However, we have to be content with the official version of the giant, which states that it was never planned to release the game on Korean territory.
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