On PT’s 8th birthday, the person who delisted it speaks out: ‘I wish it had gone differently’
Eight years after its release, the person who claims to have been tasked with pulling Konami’s P.T. from PlayStation servers has spoken about the experience for the first time.
P.T. was a critically-acclaimed playable teaser for Hideo Kojima’s cancelled Silent Hills game, which was released as part of a surprise drop during Gamescom 2014.
The fan-favourite game demo was released under the developer pseudonym ‘7780s Studio’, and required the community of players to work together in order to solve its puzzles, and reveal its true purpose as a teaser for Silent Hills by Kojima.
Ultimately, the Silent Hills project was cancelled by Konami following Kojima’s departure from the company the following year. Controversially, P.T. was pulled from the PlayStation Store soon after and even the ability to re-download it blocked. Years later, it was made unplayable on PS5.
To this day, many dedicated fans have kept the game on their console hard drives, as it’s impossible to access the teaser any other way.
After Kojima acknowledged the 8-year anniversary of P.T. on Twitter on Friday, former Konami brand manager Pearl Lai responded by claiming she had both been responsible for setting up the surprise release of the game on the PlayStation Store, and also putting in the call to have it removed.
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“Fun fact: since I was the [first-party] lead at the time at Konami, I helped get this product set up on the storefronts, fake publisher and everything,” she wrote. “And I was the one who had to call Sony and ask them to take it down and block redownloads. That was a super fun conversation”.
Lai went on to answer many fan questions around P.T.’s removal,
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