Silent Hills’ PT Demo is no longer available to download in any form.
This fan confirmed that you would not be able to redownload the demo onto a newly registered PS4 console.
Even if you had it in your library, you can't re-download P.T. from PSN on a new PS4. Just tried. So sad.
— Russ Frushtick (@RussFrushtick) May 6, 2015
While this fan confirmed that merely attempting to download it at all no longer works.
Rip p.T #PS4share pic.twitter.com/qvoIktKPPi
— John G (@TheAnimeBox) May 6, 2015
This follows confirmation from Guillermo Del Toro that Silent Hills was already cancelled, and the PT Demo was soon to be delisted.
While not a total shock, this comes as a surprising reveal, given that fans were under the impression that queueing the game in their PSN account would guarantee them a copy, even if they did not own a PlayStation 4 yet.
However, it must be said that this was not guaranteed by Konami or Sony. Consumers made this assumption based on information distributed informally online.
To be clear, while the PT Demo is still listed on PlayStation Network, if you try to download it, you will find that the files are no longer online. Hence, the game is no longer available.
@RussFrushtick @SamitSarkar well, yep. They killed it from the servers. Its on the list but no file to download. :/
— Jeremías Curci (@TheChopper1209) May 6, 2015
But, this isn't the end of it. Sharp eyes have noted that the demo is scheduled to stop working this December 13, 2015.
Not only pulled from PS store, P.T. on PS4 actually has a stop-working date. RT @C418: Uh-oh pic.twitter.com/ItOIKMPZbc
— David Ex Machina (@dd_toronto) May 6, 2015
It has not been a week since people started selling PlayStation 4 consoles for exorbitant prices just because it had PT Demo installed within. Now, these artificially overpriced consoles may even raise in price in the immediate future.
Truthfully, we knew that PT Demo was about to get delisted anyway. This move simply comes across as needlessly frustrating for fans, if not outright antagonistic.
