“However, to incentivize you to still sign in with a PSN account while playing those games, Sony says that it will “soon” be adding “in-game content unlocks” like outfits and resources.”

This is a half win.

Mildly surprised Sony actually budged on this. Of course, they really should have had this setup from the start. No one is going to like being forced to set up a PSN account to play a game, but I imagine a lot of people will do it for a free cosmetic skin or whatever in-game incentives they come up with.

Only to add it back once they’ve made their sales

Can’t imagine anyone is going to fall for it

Maybe there’s a chance those games will come to GOG now that there isn’t the psn requirement.

the steam page still shows 3rd party account requirement? or did I read wrong?

I’ve honestly wanted to play all of these but haven’t gotten around to them and also didn’t want to do the Sony account thing out of principle. I wonder how they’d perform on my Steam Deck OLED

Glad they came to their senses. I had trouble setting up one as I have/had a sony group account with no security info which is needed to reset the password. Turns out sony doesn’t filter periods from usernames from email. Just ended up adding a couple to my email address for a new account.

Nice, waiting paid off. I’m actually interested in picking up the new God of War and Horizon games now.

For now.