Despite releasing to PS5 in 2020,The Last of Us Part 2is only just about coming to PC. On the one hand, it will be the remastered version when it is released (it’s up to you to decide whether a four-and-half-year-old game even needs remastering). However, if you’re planning to get your gritty zombie action on via Steam or Epic Games Store, you won’t be able to escape Sony’s clutch.
As noted byVGC, if you want to playThe Last of Us Part 2on PC, you’ll need to connect a PlayStation Network account to do so. Indeed, if you look on the game’sSteam page, you can see it says so on the right-hand column.
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This is despite two things:
It seems Sony has learned nothing
As the report from VGC also points out, having to have a separate account in order to play through Steam or Epic renders the game useless in countries that don’t have PSN. Obviously, this means a lot of people around the world won’t be able to playThe Last of Us Part 2(remastered or not) when it comes to PC this April.
While Sony has reneged on this decision in the past – doing a complete U-turn when it tried to introduce it to the aforementionedHelldiver 2– thecompany also admittedit was “still learning what is best for PC players.” However, this doesn’t appear to be the case if Sony goes forward with PSN requirements for a PC port of a single-player game.
There was also the incident in September 2024 when amod forGod of WarRagnarökremoved the PlayStation Network requirement altogether. This alone should show how unpopular it is. Will Sony relent forThe Last of Us Part 2? It seems well within its best interests to do so. Sadly, I have no influence over that decision.
