Rise of the Ronins Korean Release Cancelled Following Commentary Controversy
Pulled from PSN, along with marketing materials.
If, like ourselves, you're only passingly familiar with the complex, extremely fraught history between Japan and Korea, you might have missed the significance of specific comments made by Rise of the Ronin director Fumuhiko Yasuda in a behind-the-scenes trailer released last week. We certainly did, despite reporting on the thing, and so were surprised to learn that Sony has since cancelled the upcoming title's Korean release.
Officially, no reason has been given, but it's reportedly due to Yasuda's comments, which, let's not forget, were widely disseminated in an official trailer uploaded on PlayStation's YouTube account. Spotted by Eurogamer, several Korean outlets began reporting that the game had been pulled from the Korean PlayStation Store, along with accompanying promotional material, and the trailer removed from the PlayStation Korea YouTube account. As reported on the Korean-language community site Ruliweb, Sony Interactive Entertainment Korea confirmed in a statement that Rise of the Ronin won't be released in the region, either physically or digitally.
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