According to gaming section of the popular cybersecurity & computing forums Exploit, a group of hackers managed to get their hands on the upcoming PS5 game’s project Ghost of Yōtei by hacking one of their developer’s PC. They’ve managed to download a whole game’s database of the game which is not yet officially released to the public. The game is meant to be released for Sony’s PlayStation 5 console only, to attract PlayStation fans, and also all those gamers from another platforms to hopefully switch to PS5 and buy a console because of this game.
Because of not yet cleared reason why, they have leaked the game’s complete project files, including its ISO publicly on the forums, which attracted bunch of players who were waiting the 2nd release of their favorite Ghost of Tsushima since 2020. This of course means that once something gets leaked online, it’s impossible to erase it from forever because the game already started to spread for download all over warez websites, torrents and similar sites.
So, once imagined to be a PlayStation 5 exclusive only game, now the Ghost of Yōtei is also possible to run on the PC with Windows or Mac machines using the PS5Emux PlayStation 5 emulator software. Developers of this emulator are working to make it compatible to even smartphone operating systems (Android and iOS), which will once completed, make the Ghost of Yōtei to spread even more to mobile devices too.
The only thing which the game developers could do for now to make the game more secretelly and unique again to attract their players is to add some more quests, maps, areas, and such new things which are not included in the project files what has been hacked and leaked. They have already confirmed they are working on new things in the game, which will include much more content when gets released then contained in the hacked files. Also some new weapons, skins, and unique characters are coming too.
According to this, maybe gamers of the franchise got even more lucky because this scandal made their coders to think outside of the box and spiked their creativity even more to produce some unique content in the game’s upcoming release which was never seen in its sequel Ghost of Tsushima.
If the current leaked game Ghost of Yōtei manage to reach high amount of mentioned game’s franchise players, there is also a plan to re-title the upcoming 2025 release of the game according to the developers. They have promised to give all possible effort to make the upcoming release as unique as possible so that the fans and gamers will get completely different and highly more rich content inside the game then the current one which got hacked and leaked.
So this makes us all very impatient of waiting for unplanned masterpiece of this upcoming action-adventure saga. Stay tuned for more updates how things are going of current state of Ghost of Yōtei.