Following similar restrictions on Helldivers 2—and the ensuing backlash —reports have emerged that Sony will be restricting the sale of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, banning at least 132 countries from buying the game, according to package details in SteamDB . The long list of banned countries suggests that a PSN account will once again be mandatory for Fighting Souls, although the list of countries has shrunk to 132 countries from the 177 countries where Helldivers 2 was unavailable. The same restrictions are present for all versions of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls.

It was already previously confirmed that Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls would require a PSN account, thanks to the notice on the game's Steam page. Sony famously walked back the PSN account requirement for Helldivers 2 after community backlash, and it seems as though the community is reacting strongly to the news of regional restrictions for Fighting Souls, so it's still possible that Sony could reverse course ahead of the game's August 6 release date. This news is the latest in PlayStation's growing list of bad news, which recently included the announcement that Sony would no longer be producing physical games media as of January 2027—a move that's been widely criticized, as well as by the Video Game History Foundation —and the recent news that Sony will effectively no longer be porting its single-player games to PC .