UPDATE:

Despite an image circulating on forums, Konami has now confirmed to IGN that it did not issue any kind of patch or update that deactivates Silent Hills P.T. on PS4 consoles where it was already installed.

A Konami representative provided the following statement to IGN:

"After our investigation we can confirm that there have been no Konami or PlayStation Network(PSN) update that would have affected or prevent access to the game."

As it stands, P.T. can still no longer be downloaded from the PlayStation Store, but will remain functional if you already had it installed prior to its 2015 removal.Original story follows:

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A report of a new patch rendering P.T. unplayable, even if the game is already installed on your PlayStation 4, is circulating the internet. Reddit post from user PopulusTrichocapra was posted on r/SilentHill a few days ago, claiming that they couldn’t access P.T. (the “Playable Teaser” for the unreleased Silent Hills game) on their PS4 with an accompanying screenshot of the locked game. The picture shows that this is version 1.01 of P.T., that the latest update occurred on October 22, 2018, and that the application is ineligible to start up.IGN checked our own PS4s with P.T. loaded and were not prompted to download any kind of update when accessing the game, with no update appearing even when we searched for one. The game, which remains fully playable on our consoles, is appearing as version 1.00 - many commenters on the Reddit thread are giving similar reports.Because the date of PopulusTrichocapra’s alleged P.T. update is displayed in the day/month/year format (as opposed to the US month/day/year format), it’s probable they live in a different geographical region, suggesting this patch could be releasing in waves to various specific regions. This report should be taken with a grain of salt considering there’s not much evidence outside of the thread that a P.T. kill patch is making the rounds. IGN has reached out to Konami for comment.P.T. was quietly announced and released in 2014, though once players downloaded the free demo they discovered the frightening experience was really a teaser for what would have been Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills. By the beginning of September, it had been downloaded over 1 million times. After Kojima’s falling out with Konami, Silent Hills was canceled and P.T. was removed from the PlayStation Store. It can no longer be downloaded by users who used to have a copy of the teaser, and can only be accessed by those who have a PS4 that still has a copy, or one that has had its data transferred to a new system.

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