Sony Pulls Gran Turismo 7 Release in Russia - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 April 2022 / 4,578 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Polyphony Digital have released Gran Turismo 7 worldwide today for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
However, the company has pulled the game in Russia on the PlayStation Store as its listing has a "pending confirmation" release date.
Eurogamer reports Sony pulled the game from the Russian PlayStation Store on Thursday night, mere hours before its release.
Sony has become one of many companies to pull its products from sale in Russia and some companies have been donating money to humanitarian organizations.
CD Projekt Red is working with its partners to suspend all digital sales and physical stock deliveries of its games in Russia and Belarus due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The company has also pledged to donate 1 million Polish złoty ($230,000 USD) to the Polish humanitarian group Polska Akcja Humanitarna.
The Pokémon Company International is donating $200,000 to GlobalGiving to provide humanitarian relief in Ukraine.
Ukraine-based developer GSC Game World announced it has paused development on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl, due to the invasion. The studio is focused on helping its employees and families.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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It's funny how companies are quick to pull sale of goods from Russians because of a War they didn't ask for initiated by their corrupt government, yet these same companies bend over backwards for China who's government is just as, if not worse than Russia's.
Are they doing this in the hope people will revolt against their governemnt eventually? Yes i'm sure that will go down well against putin.
What's crazy is that major sanctions were put together months ago, which makes me think the idea of any kind of negotiation or agreement with russia was never going to be taken seriously.
Too bad most companies haven't got the balls to do the same to other countries that do terrible things
Fck u putin!
Ruining neighbors and your people's lives
I wonder how long it'll be before Sony pulls all products and services as Microsoft just did.
Simple, because its the Sony popular game of the moment, so they manage to be on the news as supporting Ukraine, and at the same time keep profiting from the rest. They are taking one for the team, while not doing much damage to their revenue. Its only business.
that sounds like a kindergarten response.
Unfortunately, unlike yourself I am not a fanboy of a piece of plastic, I call it as I see it. Sorry to hurt your feelings for a piece of plastic.
sony sells all kinds of electronics in russia, Microsoft which is a way bigger company pulled all new products, sony can do the same, GT7 is a small drop in the bucket of what sony sells in russia.
But it is, when the competition has done far more. Its not that Sony is bad, its just that its not as good as Microsoft in this matter.
You wouldn't expect a company that sells games for the highest prices to lose any profits out of the goodness of their hearts.
As long as they can get away with, Sony is greedy and Russia has a lot of PlayStation.
This way they can say they are supporting Ukraine, but at the same time not losing much profits.
If you don't believe Sony is greedy then look at the prices of their ps5 games.
This is not fair to all the Russian gamers. Most if not all Russian gamers do not want the war, and have nothing to do with it.
True but its putin fault for the outcomes that local russians have to suffer cause of him
