Summary
Ghost of Yotei was revealed last month, which savedPlayStation’smost recent State of Play from becoming yet another snooze fest. In the game’s trailer, we saw that it will take place several hundred years afterGhost of Tsushima,it will feature a female protagonist this time around, and Sucker Punch explained afterwardexactly why the series is starting fresh.
Despite the fact thatGhost of Yoteiwill have very little to do with Ghost of Tsushima, what with Jin Sakai being long dead and buried, people have seemingly been playing the game in droves ahead of the game’s launch next year.
Ghost Of Yotei Reveal Causes Massive Ghost Of Tsushima Player Boost
According to outletTrueTrophies, which claims to track the weekly player numbers of every popular PS4 and PS5 game on the platforms, Ghost of Tsushima saw a whopping 53 percent player boost during the week after Ghost of Yotei was officially revealed, as the game rose from #35 in the charts to #26. That’s just 17.9 percent less thanThe Last of Us Part 1, which was recently released on PlayStation Plus Extra.
Unfortunately, we have no idea whether this massive boost is players simply returning, or newcomers to the series entirely. It’s possible that Ghost of Yotei’s reveal could have bumped Ghost of Tsushima up the backlogs of several people that were planning to get around to the game eventually, or it could be that the announcement inspired people to give the game a replay. It’s most likely a mixture of both.
Still, that’s a great sign that players are hungry for another entry in the Ghost series, and now all we have to do is wait for Sucker Punch to actually drop the date. I guess there are worse ways to spend the wait than play through Jin Sakai’s story a second or third time.
Ghost of Yotei
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Discover a bold, new story of a warrior in Japan who is on a mission of vengeance all her own.Set 300 years after the critically acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yōtei is standalone experience set in 1600s rural Japan. The story follows a haunted, lone mercenary named Atsu. Thirsty for revenge, she travels through the beautiful, rugged landscapes of northern Japan, hunting those who killed her family many years earlier.
