Ghost of Yotei was revealed last month, which saved PlayStation's most recent State of Play from becoming yet another snooze fest. In the game's trailer, we saw that it will take place several hundred years after Ghost of Tsushima, it will feature a female protagonist this time around, and Sucker Punch explained afterward exactly why the series is starting fresh.
Despite the fact that Ghost of Yotei will have very little to do with Ghost of Tsushima, what with Jin Sakai being long dead and buried, people have seemingly been playing the game in droves ahead of the game's launch next year.
According to outlet TrueTrophies, which claims to track the weekly player numbers of every popular PS4 and PS5 game on the platforms, Ghost of Tsushima saw a whopping 53 percent player boost during the week after Ghost of Yotei was officially revealed, as the game rose from #35 in the charts to #26. That's just 17.9 percent less than The Last of Us Part 1, which was recently released on PlayStation Plus Extra.
Bringing back Jin Sakai for Ghost of Yotei would have robbed him of the ending he deserved.
Unfortunately, we have no idea whether...