Overview
- Multiple outlets using SteamDB reported over the weekend of July 4–6, 2026 that Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is marked as not available for purchase or activation in 132 countries on Steam.
- The blocked countries largely overlap with territories where PlayStation Network is not supported, and reporters say the likely cause is a required PSN account link on PC to enable crossplay with PS5 players.
- Neither Sony Interactive Entertainment nor developer Arc System Works has publicly confirmed the restriction, and the game still has an open beta scheduled for July 24–26 and a full launch on August 6, 2026.
- Players in affected regions report inconsistent Steam behavior such as error messages or still-seeing the store page, raising worries about access for competitive fighters from countries like Pakistan, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic.
- The case echoes the 2024 Helldivers 2 episode when a PSN linking policy made a game unplayable in many regions before Sony reversed course, leaving open the possibility of a similar policy change and wider implications for Sony's PC strategy and PR.