The Last Of Us Part II Remastered will be arriving on PC this coming April 3, 2025. That news was revealed at last year’s Game Awards. The question hanging over that announcement though, is whether or not PC players will need to have a PSN account to connect to their Steam or Epic Games Store accounts to play it.
Now that pre-orders have officially gone live on Steam and EGS, we have the answer, and it’s not the one that players would’ve liked, but it’s the one that was to be expected: players are required to connect their PSN accounts in order to play The Last Of Us Part II Remastered when it launches.
Requiring players to connect their PSN accounts became a major issue first with Helldivers 2 at the beginning of last year, and has since become a talking point for each of PlayStation’s releases on PC.
PC players feel that they shouldn’t have to connect any third-party accounts for a game they’ve purchased on a different platform. Why should they need a PlayStation account to play a game they bought on Steam, especially for a game that’s entirely single-player?
Compounding the issue is that Steam and EGS are available in more countries globally than PSN, which cuts out a huge chunk of players who might’ve wanted to buy and play The Last Of Us Part II Remastered when it lands on PC.
Unfortunately the requirement doesn’t seem like it’ll be going anywhere anytime soon.
Source – [PlayStation]