https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/09/xbox-and-kojima-productions-expand-partnership-to-publish-physint/PS5 NO LONGER RECIEVING PHYSINT OR ODASHA SHARMA IS KOJIMA'S NEW BEST FRIEND
This has just been a brutal week for sony hasn't it
>>747288498What else happened this week?
Is sony really losing so much PR in Japan that kojima would rather side with xbox?
>xboxSo it's confirmed cancelled?
>>747288394So it's a shmup confirmed?
>>747288557They didn't cancel OD despite everything else, so that seems unlikely.
>>747288529you miss the last two day?
>>747288534Sony is stripping copper out of the walls and are so desperate for one of their live services to work they're sacrificing other games for it.Reminder Fairgames$ and Horizon live service aren't cancelled yet.
>>747288716Are yu fucking kididng me? WHY WON'T SONY CANCLE HIDEO KOJIMA?HUHOH WAIT THEY NEED TO FUND MARATHON RIGHTFUCKSONY
I might actually buy the new Xbox at this rate
The real reason for this is because Microsoft is helping him push into the film industry. Everything else is secondary.
>>747288962Why? It'll be on PC day 1 if it's coming to Xbox.
>>747288664I haven't been on this board in a month
>>747289051What made you return?
>>747289008yeah, who ever heard of Sony in the film industry.Kojima is 63 years old btw
>>747289008But Sony is already in the Film industry?
>>747288962They updated custom boot load up for starting up the Xbox. I'm rooting for Gears of War e-day to win GOTY. I want that game to crash the video game industry for how much Xbox tax they get from video game reviewer outlet bias.
>>747289105>>747289115Clearly they weren't good enough for him (he was asking for too much money)
>>747289105He's just a kid waiting for his big break
>>747288716>Tell our developers we're cancelling physical games effective immediately*a month later*>Hey Hulst, I put in the cancellation notice for that Physint game just like you said>"...You did what?"Xbox swoop
>>747288394yay pc version :)
Man Fairgame$ better be fucking good, Snoy.
>>747289086I saw this news on my feed
Sony's Direct was ALL ASSSony is now THREATENING THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS Nintendo and Xbox are WINNING once GTA is out it's over for gaystation
PC then
>>747289217That ship has long sailed, if he didn't become a director in the 2000s there's no way in hell he'll be one in the 20s+.Independent film maybe but he's a westaboo who want's his bug Scorsese tier project.
>>747289198C'mon man. Gears is gears. They're fine games, but there's nothing extraordinary about them to stand out from other games. Especially since GTA6 is a lock for GOTY this year.
>>747288394>Moviegoyslop for trashboxLol
I thought xbox was doing away with woke?
>>747288394another reason to fucking hate xboxshould've just let it die
>>747289242
>>747288534What do you expect? Everyone knew as soon as SEI moved HQ to California it was going to be game over.
GOY PASS DAY ONE
>>747288394kinda figured that it would get a PC version since both death strandings did but this is pretty surprising
>>747288394What the actual fuck is Playstation doing man they're on a generational run of killing goodwill this year.
>>747288394It's called PHYSint of course Sony doesn't want it
there must be something wrong with kojima if both konami and sony drop him
>>747289018I think they’re bringing back full exclusivity soon for select titles
>>747290416No, it's just spreadsheet management striking again
>>747289771>What the actual fuck is Playstation doing manI mean, it's no mystery. They openly said that they think their fanbase is complete cattle that will continue to buy their products no matter what they do.
>>747288394Meaning multiplat, meaning people will actually play it. Not that it'll be good. It'll be another fart-huffing Cuckjimbo shitfest.
>>747290416japanese publishers are insanely retarded
>>747289771They can live off GTA/sportslop money
>yfw not Sony
The last Sony console I boughted was a PS3.
>>747288394You think this wont be released on PS5/PS6? As far as i know, the multiplat plans haven't changed with Asha, so this is good news for everyone, having zero negative effect on snoys.
>>747290416they can't handle Kojima's insanitykinda like SE and Nomura
I'm gonna be honest with you guys.I want to suck on Asha's toes.She's unironically saving xbox by making so many good decisions.
>>747288716>game was unexpectedly cancelled in mid-June, literally days before the Bungie layoffsMarathon flopped THAT badly, huh?
>>747291185>As far as i know, the multiplat plans haven't changed with AshaThey cancelled Gears E Day PS5 under her so quick and haphazardly they were accidentally sending physical storefronts PS5 box art and uploading PS5 branded trailers.Since she took over I don't believe they've actually announced any games with PS5 versions, there was Senua and State of Decay 3 getting their platforms but those turned out to be because they were selling the studios anyway.They've also stopped uploading trailers with PS5,etc logos to their Youtube channels. It's possible Fable is the last game they ship to PS5 that isn't stuff like CoD or Minecraft
>>747288394But why?OD has been in development for years now with nothing to show still.I guess M$ just like getting scammed by japs
>>747288394it's gonna flop but atleast it's gonna be on pc
>>747288394>Microsoft says "no thanks" to buying the money-furnace known as Bungie, only for Sony to scoop them up right after out of spite>Sony says "no thanks" to further projects with the money-furnace known as Hideo Kojima, only for Microsoft to scoop him up right after out of spite
Aporogize
He was squandering the budget on burgers and pissing away time with actors again
>>747291249SE sure does like putting Nomura in top positions considering how much they can't handle him
>>747291625They released this plague
>>747291625
>>747291646They were literally hoping for a new MGS tier franchise they could own 100% instead they got Kojima's arthouse project 2 times.
Every time I see someone call Kojima a parasite over stealing funding from konami, sony, and xboner, i just hear code talker goingVOCAL CHORD PARASITESWOLBACHIAMALE TO FEMALEHAMBURGERS
>>747291646Game hasn't started yetHe submitted a budget for burgers and Hollywood friends and they said no
>>747291348It's struggling to even hit 3000 concurrent players at this point. You tell me.
>>747289771Enough people bought those lazy black ops 1/2 ports after ending physical media that they feel comfortable enough to give the middle finger to anyone who is not gta, cod, and sportsball games
>>747288557XBOX is the one saving it, Sony wanted to cancel it.
>>747291764This time for sure
>>747288394/v/isters, do we frame this as Xbox cucking Playstation, or is it Sony pumping and dumping Kojima?
>>747291789>>747291646
legitimately what does sony have left, GTA isnt even an exclusive. they're just setting the ps6 up to flop
Now that sony is out Asha will demand lewdness for money. The 80’s Kojima is back.
>>747289242There's like a 40% chance this is actually what happened and some middleman was too embarrassed to admit he made a mistake so they doubled down on letting go of Kojima.
>>747291917Dr Uckmann's latest masterpiece of course!
Fucking love both Death Strandings but DS2 has only sold about 10% of DS1, that is a MAJOR redflag, it shows that player retention in the franchise failed BAD.Sony making a business decision here
>>747291917GTA may as well be exclusive for how irrelevant xbox is honestly That said ps6 will bomb, almost 0 reason to own PS now
>>747291820That's exactly what Sony also said with the Bungie buyout and their hopes at a new Halo with Destiny.They own first party shit like Guerilla, Naughty Dog and Insomiac but desu idk if they actually make system sellers. People seem to shit on them here but /v/'s taste aren't "everyone">>747292037Holy shit that's real bad.
Death stranding sicked because Sony neutered it. Sexbox Kojima will be untethered.
>>747292037Nobody was willing to even consider buying a PS5 for DS2.
They just need to poach a few more Sony Devs and they will rule the ps6 gen.
>>747291917>What does Sony have left?No competition. Basketball Americans will pick up the next PlayStation solely for the next CoD/Madden/2K because Xbox basically doesn’t exist anymore and PCs are $1,000+.
>Kojimbo-san wait, we can still come to an agreeme—
>>747292037It's really honestly a miracle that Death Stranding 1 sold as well as it ambiguously did. I guess novelty/curiosity factor helped it a lot, similar to Suicide Squad 2016.>>747292190>picrelSorry, Nintendo already scooped up a ton of JS' devs who didn't join Asobi.
>>747292037I mean, that's 2 million sales versus 19 million. DS1 had a massive Covid boost going November 2019, and was a very perfect chill and relax sort of lockdown game for the period. It's hardly the only series with impossible growth boosts for that period, plus trailers were constantly being posted all the time and had the whole bizarre speculation train going in since people were so hype for Kojima getting a finished game out the door. Meanwhile, what did the sequel get? Fuckin.. State of Plays and people "knowing what to expect", hoping zany trailers at the SoPs alone could sell the game. It was always kinda fucked, the marketing probably wasn't even a fraction of the effort and the player number lockdown boost was never going to be there. Follow that up with word of mouth post release that DS2 is largely an easier retread of the previous game "but more" with a less well received story on top, and a ton of people simply didn't bother to check back in given how long the first one already was for their fill.
>Kojima tries to go 5 minutes without pissing off his publishers
>>747288394+9001 Izzat
>>747292293DS1 sold well because of Covid, it was a mediocre release until then
>Bought a Series X at launch for $500>spend years having everyone shit on me for getting it instead of a PS5>Sony just completely shooting itself in the foot this whole year>Still get GTA6 and the Metal Gear successorWho's laughing now
xbox going to censor shit out of it
>>747288716>they cancelled Kojima games in favor of Concord and Marathon We need a final solution to Sony California.
>>747288394WHAT WAS SONY THINKING? ASS
But will it still release on playstation? I dont like the xbox controller. Its too cramped
>>747292287Sandfall Interacticr got Charlie Cox and Andy Serkis in their game and their money comes from the publisher whose most successful game up until then was Sifu. What the fuck is Kojimbo’s excuse?
>>747291646Burgers are a need and no amount of money spent on them is wasted.
>>747289771they can do whatever the FUCK they want as long as GTA6 moves enough PS5/6 units for their stocks to spike like a heroin overdose. And the stocks will move. The fix is already in at this point. There's no way GTA6 won't sell enough for the shareholders to not be happy and since PS5 is now the "default" normie console that's all that matters.
>>747289198If you think Gears is beating either GTA or Zelda you're deluding yourself.
>>747291917They are a brand of consoles like Apple at this point. They are genuinely going to shove all the GTA money into a billion GAAS games to try to hit big.
>>747292598Marathon's EoS is 100% going to be announced adjacent to sales reports for GTA6, to help soften the blow for Sony's investors and shareholders.
While a dumb move, personally I think Kojima is highly overrated.
>>747291461FH6 is coming to PS5 next year.
>"In a May 2025 interview with French magazine Le Film Français, Kojima stated that the game, still in its early development phase, was expected to require at least another five to six years of work before completion.[7] In August, Kojima revealed in an interview with IndieWire that he's the only person working on Physint at the moment, as the project is still in its conceptual stage. "I'm doing Physint entirely by myself, because it's still at the concept stage," he said, emphasizing that actual development hasn't begun yet."Microsoft will cancel this too, it literally doesn't exist.
>>747292561Dude, they got a movie deal before the game was even out. The director's father obviously gave him the money.
>>747292598Yeah Sony's current consoles might as well be a GTA 6 playing machines atp. and I really doubt normies are gonna miss out on it.
>>747292420xbox has been better for like two gens now, it's just that nobody cares. They've been trying to redeem themselves ever since the kinect with shit like game pass and disc to digital, and yet their competitiors don't feel any pressure to actually compete with them.
>>747292718Yes however the cult of personality is very real and primed to buy this even if it's a pale imitation of MGS
>>747292778death stranding 2 literally came out last year a month later. yeah no fucking duh this one hadn't fully started production yet, and THAT took 4 and a half years just to build on top of the first.
>>747288394Is GTA 6 that much of a good game? It feels like the PS5 exists only for that one game, sony has literaly nothing else, and it seems like they don't even care, they are 100% relying on a single game to carry the whole generation.
>>747292786That’s suprisingly not uncommon. El Paso, Elsewhere also got picked up for a movie starring Lakekeith Stanfield and that’s a Max Payne clone that maybe 20 people played.
>>747292832Xbox is selling like shit atm, the iron is hot but they keep shitting themselves because of dumb ass corpo shit look how many studios they bought out only to lay them off or shutter them afte they did 1 game, I doubt Kojima's gonna get special treatment, he may have the prestige but I doubt he hold that much influence.
>>747289771No internal desire to fund or provide support for anything that isnt a 2 billion dollar niggercattle magnet like GTA 6.
>>747288394I hope this nigga isn't washed, it's up to him to save xbox
>>747288716>Horizon live servicelmao, when will this shitty forced franchise die?
>>747292930I think they'd let him waste away quietly before they set the fanboy crosshairs on themselves, especially seeing the response to sony and xbox's new pandering-filled direction. They've got a golden opportunity going into next gen with all the shitty decision making and bad blood on sony's end, it's the exact opposite of what happened with the kinect, and look at all the good that did for playstation.
>>747288394Genuinely what the fuck is Sony doing? they keep pouring money into online shit that doesn't work ever and unnecessary remakes of games that are barely aged while throwing away good franchises.They deadass gave Xbox 2 highly anticipated games that are most likely exclusive
Imagine if Xbox moves to Japan like a reverse SIEHow would you react?
>>747293058*India
>>747293057they got absolutely financially raped by Herman Hulst's push for live services and the acquisition of Bungie.
>>747292883Its a pure normie appeal generational game atp, I guess its akin to how well Avengers Endgame did, yeah its sorta impressive and it does well with most critics but its aimed at the general populace and considered an event every time a new one comes out. Its the safest bet on a console game selling next to like CoD (although that's series has seen better days now) and whatever else sports game EA and 2K bothers making anymore.
He probably wanted physical copies and they wouldn’t budge
Death Stranding 2 was so fucking bad, Sony just sees now what Konami saw earlier. Now Xbox can babysit him. Not defending Sony otherwise, they've been happily torpedoing their own reputation for the lulz, 100% corporate sabotage going on right now.
>>747288716Him being upfront about the cancelation from Sony on social media is something else. I don't recall he even bothered to explain what happened when he was fired from Konami.
We don't need him. We'll do just fine without him.
>>747292883>they are 100% relying on a single game to carry the whole generation.A ton of third-parties were also initially planning on assuming it would buoy their games this generation, but the constant delays eventually made it clear to more and more devs over time that they had to swallow their pride and ultimately accept PC and/or Nintendo as legitimate platforms for day-and-date releases too.Square Enix finally getting the memo for longtime Sony staples like FF7 and Kingdom Hearts was basically the Last Chopper out of Snoygon. Imagine going to 90s or early 2000s Playstation HQ and telling them "yeah you guys fucked up so hard that a Final Fantasy 7 remake and the next major Kingdom Hearts games are also releasing day-one on a Nintendo system".
I wonder if the studio still uses Decima Engine for this now that Sony has cut ties with him.
>>747288716Fairgames reportedly actually has a re-debut trailer in the works under a completely different name too. God everyone at Sony needs to be murdered yesterday.
>>747288394It's fucking over.I'm so glad I lived long enough to see the death of PlayStation.
>post >yfw you didn't buy a PS5 or any playstation past the PS2
>>747288716>genre-defining action-espionage title>physintohhh it's gonna be like that retarded gay tenet movie
>>747293224Nah, he wanted it on PC.
>>747293276It's really grim when something like Final Fantasy 7 (arguable the best one) doesn't even have that appeal and weight it did in the 90's jfc.
>>747289461>valve achievements
Marathon SAVEEE MEEE
Kojima has been using his publishers as slush to fund his degenerate lifestyle of trying to cozy up to other celebrities for decades. When the accountants finally audit his activities you know the only logical recourse is to eject him.
>>747291584>>747291625>mgs 4 and 5 break even in less than 1 dayKonami fags really retarded.
>>747288716Why would sonys jap ceo do this
>>747288716What's with this retarded fanfiction? The Horizon spin-off is getting reworked into a non-live-service Monster Hunter clone: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/horizon-multiplayer-game-being-rebooted-to-remove-live-service-next-mainline-horizon-game-years-away-report-says/
>>747293320They have a perpetual license to use it, so yes.They also retain full ownership of all IP.Kojima isn't stupid.He learned from his mistake with Konami.
This is going to be another WB drops Nolan before the Odyssey situation
>>747288394>release both death stranding games which were always going to have niche appeal at most>cancel the espionage cinematic action game that would probably resemble metal gear and be more normalfag friendly They have some real geniuses working at snoy. I hope Physint is a huge success on xbox/PC. I don’t even like Kojima that much, but I fucking hate snoy.
>>747293490Nolan makes his movies on time and under budget. This is never coming out.
>>747293436I honestly believe this. There’s never any trailers for new games or anything. Even that ILL game or Blackmyth have small teams but something to show for the time they take
Unironically make me excited for next State of Play, imagine have nothing to show
>>747293527When this game comes out in 2032 nobody will giv
>people are just now realizing Death Stranding 2 lost moneyNo shit they're canceling on Kojima. They failed to put a tard wrangler on "la creativad" and got burned. Konami was actually right about him, Sony just took too long to realize it.
>>747292883GTA4 "saved" PS3 back in the day, when people weren't just buying the console but also finally playing on it, and have them buy some other games. My guess is Sony thinks GTA6 will do the same for PS5 this time, where people will actually use the goddamn ecosystem instead of buying the console and leaving it gathering dust.
>>747293563I don't have to imagine it, i can just watch their last one
>>747293563>imagine have nothing to showHave they tried television?
>>747293563I want them to yet again announce negative games, Last of Us 3 cancelled. Druckmann making games for Amazon Luna
>>747290923As most normal people.
>>747293623The game is monetized as fuck too, they’re 100% relying on it.
>>747293490>WB drops NolanNolan dropped WB after the HBOMax fiasco
>>747293484Okay now that's smart. Say what you want about Guerilla Games but Decima is a legit game engine. At least it's better than having Physint to just be another goddamn Unreal Engine game.
>>747293563So just like last week’s?
>>747293612I knew death stranding would be over after 2 but couldn't imagine sony admitting the partnership with kojima is a waste of time.
>>747290923>>747293676Sameall though my brother gave his PS4 to me I really didn't touch it that much
>>747288394It's a good thing Sony forgot Bend Studios exists because they'd have turned the devs into glue by now.
>>747288716Holy shit. That's next level retardation. Kojimbo alone is worth more than all current sony first party studios together for fucks sake.That said I have no idea why Kojimbo even needs sony or microsoft. DS was a very successful game.
>>747293661>State of Play exclusively showcasing the canceled games That'd be hilarious.
>PhysintWill the sequel be called Magstr?
>>747293676Op to that post, thanks, istg that's the last Sony console that actually felt like the right variety blend of Jap and Western titles.
>Sony's big announced that was supposed to overshadow Nintendo Direct was cancelling their partnership with KojimaBAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAt least they might have been correct in that it overshadowed the nintendo direct but not in a good way for them.
>>747293563Sony will stop showing State of Plays soon
>>747288394Holy shit how much money was Kojima burning with that shit?
>>747293796dont tempt kojima cause thats something he would do
>>747293612Compared to stuff like Concord and Marathon, Death Stranding 2 ain't exactly that much of a money sink desu.
>>747288394This is industrial sabotage, Kojima needs to be blacklisted.
>>747289242he's doesn't know english very well so it's very possible this is what happened
>>747293809In fact I believe the PS6 will be cancelled and they will exit the console market entirely
>>747288716>Xbox making a good decisionHell has frozen over
>>747293584>nobody will givSeething so hard about snoy losing a potential MGS caliber game that he couldn’t even finish his sentence lol.
>>747293796>Dexstr>MCs name is Dexter
>>747288394So the Xbox is getting shitty movie games too?>>747292835Kojima's cult of personality is non-existent now.He's the MGS man and ever since MGSV, both him and the series are essentially "literally-who" tier gaming trivia rather than anything that can really move units. Even the remakes of MGS games aren't selling like hotcakes. I really don't get this Kojima cock-sucking. He hasn't made a good game since the 6th or 7th gen and that was BECAUSE he had people tard-wrangle him to not make something retarded.I'm not simping for Sony and their perpetually retarded live-service push rather than making good single player games but it's not 2015 anymore. Kojima isn't a household name anymore and his cultural influence and pull is meaningless at this point. Even on this board, no one talks about Kojima outside of mocking him.
>>747293790it would be a long state of play
>>747292425Yeah, censor all the Cali-troon shit Snoy put in it.
>>747288716so Q2 ended and Sony hit the panic button for financial relief after marathon and saros flopped
Nobody posted the Playstation cope post yet>An update from PlayStation Studios: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to step away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT. We continue to have great admiration for Hideo Kojima's vision for the game.>Our relationship remains strong after three decades of industry-leading, genre-defining creative cooperation, and we look forward to continued close collaboration with Hideo Kojima and his award-winning independent studio in the future.Imagine losing a Kojima game for Marathon and Concord kekhttps://xcancel.com/PlayStation/status/2097875212427735146#m
>>747293804Do you think they’ll make even more false flag threads where they pretend to be disappointed Kirby or Zelda fans? This has been such a rough week for them. Eric in particular should have a wellness check done on him.
>>747288394A reminder that this woman wants your money
>>747293916Yeah but this one is the MGS successor for real this time trust me bro it's the one we've all been waiting for
>>747293969Sony really fucked over this gen trying to chase live service, I hope they realized this for the ps6 but I know I'm seeing at least one new live service game announced alongside it
excellent it will be on pc that means, progress
>ANGRY NEWS! XBOX STEALS KOJIMA!It’s funny how OP tells you thoughtless mongs how to feel >BASED NEWS! SONY FIRES KOJIMA AND THEN MICROSOFT PICKS UP THE TABsee how easy that is?
>>747288394It's bound to be a movie game still but it's good that it's coming to PC at least. Snoy won't port any of their new games anymore. As if that's a loss lol.
Kojima needs someone to put him in place with his use of resources. First he made Konami almost bankrupt now this
KOJIMA KNOWS ITGAMESPLAY BESTON THE XBOX BABY
>>747293612The thing is that DS1 did so well, that he got a blank check for DS2 which did awful. Yet, they were too scared of letting him go to Xbox with OD that they push Physint out of the back of his dome, and never pretended to even think that Kojima would still go with the blank check mentality. More so when they have been giving those to anyone and flopping even harder than DS2That's 100% a retarded move by Sony regardless of Kojumbo flopping, because OD and Physint are what people wanted out of Kojima after he left Konami but he focused so much in DS that he got lost in the sauce, those two might be a make it or break it for Kojima. If OD is as good as people thought the Silent Hills was going to be, Xbox just made the gamble of the decadeFunnily enough, Xbox just dropped that they are having a presentation in the Tokyo Game Show.
>>747294018>Our relationship remains strongthat's not how Kojima sees it
>>747288716THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING STAT- NO, BACKWATER SHACK OF ZONYfilename
>>747288716>Kojimbo is giving Sony another Metal Gear when Konami doesn't want easy money>NAHHHH FUCK THAT WE GOTTA KEEP BURNING MONEY ON LIVE SERVICE SLOP LIKE FLOPATHON BY BUNGLE!Holy shit, Sony is genuinely retarded. LMAO.At least this confirms a PC port, unlike when Sony (retardedly!) pulled from PC because they thought PC players would buy a PS5+ instead of just waiting for the PC port instead of doing day-one ports if they wanted that easy $70+tip.>>747291348We've known that since March when it collapsed from like 80,000 to 40,000 and then halfed that during season 2 to 20,000 (10,000 before the free-weekend) EACH season halves the maximum and it's already hitting 2,000 players max daily on Steam where 70% of the sales were.Keep up with the news, nagga.
What the fuck is going on with Sony?Did they put something in their water?>>747293804LMAO
>>747294052and she's gonna get it. Problem?
The current sony execs are all Nintendo loyalists who are still angry about the SNES CD ROM. They infiltrated the company and worked their way up to the top. Its the only explanation that makes sense
>>747294118I wonder what hollywood actors kojima will get paid to hang with this time
>>747293894I actually realized that the game is never actually coming out.>>747292420This isn't a Series X game.
>>747294018Well what's the fuzz then, they are stating that they will keep working with Kojima. Seems like an amicable split clearly to me.
>>747290459MS would be fucking dumb to think Kojima super fans are going to buy a console for his game when they know a PC port is happening.I know they're ran by Jeets now but they SURELY aren't THAT retarded.
>>747293969>10 canceled games>4 more potentially cancelled games>marathon might be closing down soon crazy numbers
>publish a game that makes 150 to 200 million dollars>"we can't sustain shit like this! Cancel the successor to Metal Gear!" Sony is so awesome man. They are genuinely incapable of doing anything other than chasing live service shit (even after they publicly stated they learned their lesson) and continue to milk retarded story game boomers. How hard is it to fucking publish games and then push them onto your giant platform. Jesus christ. also Death Stranding 2 selling less than DS1 is a fucking crime. That is Sony's fault and a statement on the PS5 as a system. I also love hearing about how it apparently costs Kojimbo fifty million dollars to cast name-brand, a-list talent like a bunch of actors nobody has really ever heard of and that guy from The Walking Dead. Dude he's such a starfucker, he's hanging out with.....uh.....Tommie Earl Jenkins?Phyisnt is still a big mystery but people fucking love horror games. I think OD is going to be a big deal for Kojimbo and for Xbox.
>>747294157>>"In a May 2025 interview with French magazine Le Film Français, Kojima stated that the game, still in its early development phase, was expected to require at least another five to six years of work before completion.[7] In August, Kojima revealed in an interview with IndieWire that he's the only person working on Physint at the moment, as the project is still in its conceptual stage. "I'm doing Physint entirely by myself, because it's still at the concept stage," he said, emphasizing that actual development hasn't begun yet."This game isn't happening.
It's almost like Kojimbo is the problem when he makes game just to hang out with shit celebrities
>>747294157I see r/marathonhate is here
>>747294159it’s called moving to california and going full retard
>>747289018>>747294234They are for sure double dipping, but I don't think they will exclude PC
>>747288534Moving from consoles to make games for pc never ended well for any company in long term
>>747294164>old nintendo execs changed their own children’s last names and orgins, then sent them to work for their enemies >all this over CDs and FF7kino
Why are game companies still announcing games that are 6+ years away from release? This one didn't even go through development hell, it literally doesn't exist.
>>747288394A game so good Sony turns it down and Xbox picks it up.
If you punted on Death Stranding 1 and 2 I feel sorry for you, but I have incredible news: It's not too late.
I thought last year was the most profitable year in all of Sony's history? They should be rolling in money. What's with all these cancelled studios and games?
>>747294280He is, it was a ticking bomb
>>747294131Yeah, Physint is pretty much the commercial project that should do fine, considering Kojima's MGS reputation and it being supposedly a spiritual successor of it. I don't get Sony's mindset here. It's not like DS2 was THAT much of a flop; it sold like 2 million copies last I checked.
Less game I don't know whyMaking live service but no one want to buy...
>>747293916>Kojima isn't a household name anymoreThe nips still absolutely love Kojima and Xbox are always trying to break into the Japanese market. Xbox are killing 3 birds with one stone.
>>747294351i have 1 but i've yet to play it, i remember people saying 2 just doesn't hit the same. does it really improve on anything
>>747288716Reminder that if you are a snoy in 2017+9 you literally hate videogames.
Does this mean that the upcoming Death Stranding movie is canceled? I think they haven't even started filming or anything yet.
>>747290923Same. I gotta emulate Bloodborne, the only fucking thing on the PS4 since Uncharted 4 hit Steam.
>>747294260Everything I learn about this situation makes me think this is mostly just two retards fighting each other. How do you only have one person working on a game you revealed a year ago?
>>747293797I wouldn't even own that one if not for the fact I was trading in a shitload of DVDs I didn't care about and got one for store credit because I wanted to play R&C A Crack in Time.
>>747288394If Sony is letting Microsoft have it that doesn't speak well of the project.
>>747288716daamn sony is on the chopping block
>>747294118As a metal gear fag that refuses to buy anymore snoy consoles this is actually great news for me. I wouldn’t have been able to play this on pc if it had remained on snoystation now i can. Rare xbox W.
>>747294380Their problem is that this game is at least 6 years away.>>747294436Probably because they rushed to announce the idea for a game.
>>747294475yeah just look at the amazing games sony has been releasing lately, they clearly know what a good game looks like
What kind of retarded thing is Kojima trying to do with this game that caused this? Lmao
>>747288394The first console with negative amounts of games, impressive!
>>747294475>Sony has standards!>*unironically publishes Concord*
>>747294423>In addition to OD and PHYSINT, this relationship will also extend beyond games, with XBOX and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS collaborating across film and television to bring new stories to broader audiences. Doesn't look like it
>>747294423They said they're still going to work with him in the future and movie sony and video game sony are two separate entities, so I'd assume it's still on
>>747294475no, its the reverseSony keeps games like God of War Laufey and Marathonso we know whatever games they're giving up are absolute bangers
Why are people pretending that Sony is an american company? It's as japanese are Nintendo. Microsoft is the true outsider fraud yet you people betray videogames as a medium itself by supporting them?
>>747294532I doubt anyone call tell if this game is good or not when it doesn't have anything to show.
>>747294380That's Astrobot tier numbers that's awful.
>>747294532Even sony slop is better than death stranding 2
>>747294532Sony may as well be as dense as WB executives atp on how fast they can lose filmakers goodwill and their own money
>>747294568>SIE moved to california a decade agobro, give it up
>>747294475>Bought Bungie for 4 gorillions rupees
>>747294561>>747294564I see thanks, hope they keep Sarnoski as a director during this transition.
>>747288394xbox will can this shit a year from now, death stranding 2 flopping was proof his name carries nothing anymore
>Sony makes a difficult but necessary economic decision>Xbox makes a dumb desperate decision So nothing new then
>>747293764They haven't turned them into glue yet because Bend can be a good support studio. They did Uncharted: Golden Abyss and the God of War PSP titles, after all.Sucks their "break out of support studio jail" title/Days Gone was kind of mediocre, but what can you do?
>>747294475LOLmy fucking sides today
>>747294568Because they are dumbass rightoid migatards who only want to buy American
>>747294552I think it's largely that DS2 sold 2 million copies up to June this year when they cut him loose, after DS1 sold 20 million since 2019. They figured cash more chips on live service and he wasn't in it to win it for them now, so he became a liability.
>>747293460MGSV was just as expensive as TW3, Kojima's budgets are not as high as people think they are.
>>747294552Hire actors, be expensive, and take his time making it is my guess. On some level I can't really blame sony for this retardation
Snoycope is all time high
>>747294532What good games has Microsoft released in the past 15 years?
>>747294654Physint (and OD) will be released on PC day 1 now. Sony retards kept Death Stranding 2 off PC for a year and handicapped it.
>>747294674Clearly the move was turning DS3 or Psyinth in a live service game then.
>>747294695TW3 was actually a good and finished game unlike mgsv
This is an Alan wake 2 situation waiting to happen. Game reviews great but sells like dog water
>>747288394I get xbox is backed by the microsoft windows infinite money printer but like playstation was the "Default" for console gaming since xbox one era completely fucked the brand what the hells happening where they can't let la creativad put out some weirdshit people will buy because cause his names on it.
>>747294695konami just bitches cause kojima spent a lot of their money on the fox engine
>>747288394Not surprised Sony didn't want a game called PHYSINT. If there's two things Sony hates, it's PHYSical media and INTelligent business decisions.
>>747291867>Xbox cucking Playstation, Depends on if Koijima still has it, and if it leads to any talent defection. >or is it Sony pumping and dumping Kojima?Is not this. Sony gave more than reasonable support.Check what sony does with the money they would have spent on Koijima. Who the fuck do they have? Who do they go after?
Cali is where the money is so snoy will never fail.It isnt about games it's about the message
>>747292562My brother.
>>747293776>That said I have no idea why Kojimbo even needs sony or microsoft. DS was a very successful game.DS cost money that Kojima didn't have. It's why the IP is owned by Sony (IIRC) and his contract stipulated that there WOULD be a PC port and it wasn't console exclusive.All "independent" studios do this, because running a studio/paying employees, keeping the lights on, etc. etc. etc. COSTS MONEY. Money they DO NOT HAVE even with the 30% cut platform holders (MS, Nintendo, Sony, Valve) have for the games.One bad sales run (read: not GTA numbers) means the studios go under. It's why they hunt for publishers to buy them up (become second/third party studios) so they can keep the lights on.Kojima has "cachet" in that he is a big name, so he has some leeway in that publishers will fund his studio and development, but he's still on a leash to release something and have it be successful enough for the investment to pay off. It's why despite DS1 being a great success for Sony, he isn't truly independent because he didn't get like 40-60% of the money Sony got off it.
>>747294764Xbox does the right thing for once by firing all the parasite in company
>>747294747it not releasing on pc at first gave anyone with a brain enough time to realise the game was dogshit and not fall for fomo. this is coming from a retard that fell for it and bought it day 1
>>747294781Just post the twitter screencap son
>>747294159They were already going full retard when they started censoring everything post-california but I think Concord really fucking broke the last strand of sanity they had.>kill discs (while being one of the companies behind Blu-ray in the first place)>openly antagonize customers by throwing legalese>double down on live service crap>pull back from PC releases (they were shit to begin with, forcing PSN logins)>drop kojimboAt this point, a shotgun to the face is nothing. They're putting themselves in front of the Junon cannon by now.
Dude should just move to Valve. It was rumored back in the day that Gaben wanted to hire him after he was fired from Konami but Sony outbid him. Kojima working at Valve would've been so funny. It's not like Valve cares about losing money (or doing anything) lmao.
>>747294774Kojimob was a konami exec you retard
>>747294758TW3 had plenty of cut content, does that make it unfinished?
most game cancellations are the right choice. i bet sony wishes they would've cancelled more games, too.
>>747294757>*wins by watching Sony burn and giving Fallout back to Obsidian*
>>747293776There is more to game development than just making it, especially the kind of game kojima makes. You need a lot of adminitrative work, to handle talent, licenses, legalities, contact, localization etc. These big publisher already have the system in place. If Kojima can tone down his scope he can probably self publish/settle on smaller publisher like Suda51 did but this is Kojima.
>>747294840>double down on live service crapWhy are people repeating this when they're doing the exact opposite?
>most game cancellations are the right choice. i bet sony wishes they would've cancelled more games, too.
>>747294871People don't realize how many games get cancelled all the time, in every company
>>747294846What would his role be at Valve, the mascot? Valve don't make games anymore.
>>747294052>reminderShe cute. She can have my money.
>>747294758>TW3 was actually a good and finished gamehalf of its shit was broken at launch, maybe not to the memetic level of cyberpunk but cdprojekt cannot release a finished, unbroken product to save their lives
>>747294863No because it actually came across as a coherent game that finished the story. Unlike mgsv that was entirely pointless
>>747294938i'm not defending sony, i literally just said they should've cancelled more of the stupid slop they actually ended up releasing.
>>747293236Konami's firing was messy and a NDA. I doubt Sony has that leash on him since he's an independent studio/creator. He can go "yeah, they cancelled it so I had to look for other publishers" unlike Konami where he would've been sued for talking about internal shit as "former" employee (of the time).
There better be literal fucking audible booing at The Game Awards when Cuckmann shows up on stage showing that bald bitch game, or even worse the Playstation Studios logo appears and reveals yet another live service.
>>747288394suffa sony suffa
>>747294410DS1 is great but DS2 opens up so so so much more. Better word, better story, so much more to do, so much more variety. DS1 is spartan by comparison. Both great games.
>>747294934Fair enough, they killed like seven live service projects, but killing Destiny 2 in particular is certainly a retarded move.
>>747288394no fucking way LMAO. XBROS WERE BACK
>>747295018>NEXT GUY!
>>747295029In reality ds2 is entirely just a boring truck simulator
>>747288394I really hope they didn't make any long term binding deals with MS.Swapping to them to get it published is good business given how violently Sony has been trying to kill their gaming business, but signing anything long term with MS is usually the beginning of the end for most studios.
>I"LL MAKE A THOUSAND CONCORDS BEFORE I TOUCH APE ESCAPE AGAIN
>>747295018I wonder if Geoff loves Kojima that much to antagonize Sony, he was openly seething at Konami when everything went down back in the day.
>>747294654COPE and SEETHE.
>>747293483That's even worse. Spending MORE money in a desperate attempt to save a bad idea by making it a MH ripoff with the same ugly-as-sin character designs? Just fucking cancel that shit.
>>747295075Scalebound getting banished to the Canceled Games realm probably stung Platinum and Kamiya
>>747288394Wow, Sony is doing something smart for once. I guess those UPS simulator games soured them on Kojima. lol
>>747294934because despite trying to CANCEL a lot of shit, we don't actually have a lot else to look at for the foreseeable future now but wolverine, intergalactic, and fairgames if that didn't get silently cancelled too, all the while finally forcing a full halt of destiny 2 development without much forewarning to cash everything in all hands on deck for marathon. like, the fact that they haven't killed marathon is a miracle in its own right, but it's still feeling like they want to squeeze every bit of blood from the stone they can get away with before they realize even that will be fruitless.
>>747295172Scalebound always looked shit anyway
>>747294938Yes snoy, canceling concord would have been the right move
>>747289105>>747289226Fucking zoomzooms pass him by.. IT WAS HIS TURN
>>747295142Horizon is a success like it or not, they have had 2 main games that sold millions and even a Lego game dude. This shit is gonna nuke MH when it comes out.
>>747294410By the time DS2 is a thing, the novelty is gone. In hindsight Kojima should've made PHYSINT right away after DS1 desu. Let the expanded stuff on DS come from the other media instead.
>>747291258Next slopbox needs to not have a gay ass online account registration to use it offline and actually whole games on disc inorder to get me to ever go back to their hardware. Do that and playstation can rest in piss.
>>747295086They're not doing that either. Sony is moving away from live service games.
>>747295073Only if you spend all your time in the fucking truck. I did like it for huge loads of cargo and for picking up random bits and bobs but it's probably the least fun option. It's just the most practical (outside of the monorail, when available) for carrying heaps of shit.
>>747293483My guy it never ends well when a game changes from live service to something else mid development you will see the scars all over the place
Sony would rather keep this garbage over kojimakino?
Time to buy a Xbox I guess
>>747288394holy fuck sony is so patheticFOCUS ON THE GAMESWhat the fuck are they doing?
>>747294072It's crazy people can't see things for what they are. The most relevant MGS game is a giant shitpost (albeit a fun one) by Platinum made in 2013, that Kojima was barely involved in. Death Stranding 2 actually (not figuratively) flopping is proof enough that this doesn't matter since NO ONE cares about Kojima's trash at this point. >>747294568Because Sony has been in california for a decade now, which is the end of Sony actually making decent games and the beginning of Sony a becoming shitty movie game and live service game maker and getting rid of the Japanese studios that make good games. It's like they're American or something.>>747294401No they fucking don't, especially since he makes movie games for Americans and westoids and has done so for a decade now. Primarily tying himself to the Sony ecosystem in that time has made him out to be the American he wishes to be.
>>747294131>Xbox just dropped that they are having a presentation in the Tokyo Game Show.phil fumbled japan after killing tango, we'll see if asha can get some meaningful support besides just bankrolling yakuza and persona
>>747295242coffinboard is fun but desu I was a walk everywhere boy in 1 and 2's map is just not as interesting for that. Too open with too obvious a path everywhere and not nearly enough BT zones.
>>747295242It's pointless not using the truck. There isn't a single location you can't reach in every camp has a convenient ramp for it unlike ds1
>>747292037Oof. I love DS1, but while I own DS2, I still haven't played it. Didn't realize it the numbers were that low.
>>747295294They are bringing back Scalebound, source: Asha is my mommy.
>all the xbots gloating that they get the third installment of THIS as their exclusiveLOL
>game awards opening>Pig on screen alone>Guys.... Geoff and Kojima are no longer friends
>>747295280They added Live TV at the very end of last month to the PS5 as a forced part of your menu so you can watch ad-ridden free online cable. They don't want to be a game thing anymore, they're doing literally everything they can possibly try to do to pray they don't have their footing rot out from underneath them as the company's money plummets outside of GTA6 hype stocks.
>>747288394XChads we are so fucking back
The entire western part of the company should do that rooftop seppuku thing from ghost in the shell at this point. Look at Capcom. There is just no excuse for this. Western piggu must face corporate extradition and atonement
>>747295280>focus on the kojimbo slop that won't release for another 6 years
>>747288557Nintendo will save it and force Kojima to work under a budget.
>>747288716>Reminder Fairgames$ and Horizon live service aren't cancelled yet.it lowkey washttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMUJT64WDWI
>>747295294they just need to keep getting multiplatform games from studios like capcom, s-e or bamco, what else do you want them to do? no japanese studio is gonna make an xbox exclusive.
>>747288394Sony: "Hey let's tell Hideo Kojima to go fuck himself and cancel his passion project, we're Sony We know what people want"
>>747294660>>Sony makes a difficult but necessary economic decision>buys bungie for 4 billion USD
I Actually bought a PS5 just for Physint thanks to metal gear obsession, fuck my life
The writing was on the wall when they told all of their first-party studios to work on live service slop, and then ended up cancelling those projects anyway because somehow Bungie of all companies said that they were being retarded by doing that, which is why we haven't got a single Naughty Dog game this generation outside of remakes and remasters of The Last of Us. This is the WORST case scenario for them.
>>747295294Xbox can't even succeed with Sony shooting itself in America and have a reputation of fucking with Japanese devs and screwing them over since the 360 days. No shit the Japan isn't going to become team Xbox now. They aren't Team Sony either ever since they became an American brand. Japan is basically Nintendo's turf (along with PC) at this point.
>>747294475It's on preproduction, it's almost certainly cost related, due to Kojima wanting to use A list actors like Robert Pattinson and wanting to merge film with games more.That plus Death Stranding 2 not selling as much as expected.It's just Konami 2.0, in that in retrospective you can make the argument that it's Kojima's fault due to his ambition, and wanting to hang out with Hollywood actors, but when you look at the product, let's use MGS V and PT as an example, the game was both a financial success and the product was of good quality. MGS V recovered all of the investment on day 1, and PT despite being made and released without Konami's permission went viral immediately and became one if not the most anticipated upcoming game, until it got cancelled.A stealth game, which Physint is, which will be a Metal Gear spiritual successor, with 10+ years of no original MGS games by Konami (Survive doesn't count) means it will almost certainly be a huge success.Even more now I expect, Kojimbo worked his ass off to make V a success despite all the internal turmoil at Konami, with a unique and never repeated marketing campaign, I expect that he will try to once again have one over the people who doubted him, in this case Sony. This unironically has turned me from cautious (as I didn't personally like DS 2) to pretty excited for Physint.
>>747295437Why would you buy a PS5 in 2026 when it's more expensive that it has ever been? The only time it was "sensible" to buy that shit was when it got to 350 during Black Friday a couple of years ago.
>>747295437deserved
>>747295428>keep funding Bungie for another 100 million more
>>747294871>>747294947I think the real issue is announcing games that are 5+ years away
>>747289198E-Day has literal bulldykes bossing you around, there's no way that game is gonna succeed.
>>747288716>Horizon live service aren't cancelled yet.According to Schrier they cancelled the live service part of the game and are retooling it to just be a multiplayer monster hunter with no live service elements.But he also said Sony is not impressed with the current state of the game and have until end of year to present something that will impress them or it's cancelled.
>>747295320Congratulations on building so much infrastructure and keeping your bridge links so high anon but that's just not true. There's no way you're going through the mountains and through that wildfire area in a fucking truck. Not without building a lot of stuff. Once I had done the BT kaiju battles a dozen or so times I was over BTs as a whole. I just want to deliver.
>>747295437I bought the optical reader in anticipation for GTA 6:(
>>747295490The game is 6 years away and it's by fucking Microsoft. It's never happening.
>>747288529Crappy State of PlayEveryone shitting on WolverineNintendo waving their dick around and owning the headlinesNow this
>>747293236He was a Konami employee and probably got hit with a fucking brutal NDA. He doesn't work for Sony, so I guess it's harder for Sony to control the message here.
>>747295490>mgsv was good quality
>>747295437aww dude
>>747295495>shuts down destiny to try force people to buy maraflop
Physint, featuring Asha's feet scene
Yeah sony is on a generational fuck up somehowGreat for us PC players
>>747288716What a bunch of morons
It's funny because GTA6 will save Sony from their own mistakes.
>>747295560>marathon is promised 10 seasons!
>>747295437Dumb either way, the game was setting up for PS6
>>7472939161.You not liking anything after snake eater is a YOU problem.2.Cultural relevance is a terrible measure of quality.3. Believing in the Fukushima theory makes anything else you have to say about Kojima a complete waste of time. https://thesnakesoup.org/editorial-articles/curious-case-tomokazu-fukushima/
>>747295437you can honestly sell for a profit because sony has done nothing but keep raising the price
>>747291646Unironically better than the live service slop Sony has been putting out.
>>747288716Wait WHAT they wanted to cancel a kojimbo game for more live service crap?whatthe fuuuuuuuck i get that kojima games in the past have been niche but they were abstract enough to justify getting thembut this is just sad sony
>>747295437You can sell it and buy an xboxit's way more cheaper lol
Why would they even do this? Is not like Death Stranding was a failure sure not for everyone but it found it's fanbase.....now they had a Metal Gear spiritual successor in the bag and just said "nope cancel it" wtf
>>747294052She also wants the white dick
>>747293540I don’t understand where this narrative that Kojima is an unproductive overspender comes from. Like just looking at the sheer number of games the guy has delivered over the years would instantly dismiss this fantasy, but people still persist in parroting it. At the most he was half a year late on MGS5, but there’s quite literally no fucking evidence he’s ever gone overbudget, and I’ve looked.
>>747295648sony genuinely thinks live service makes money lmao
>>747292598GTAVI won't more more units. It's likely that the game has a high attach ratio. But don't expect another 100M units sold. Take in mind GTAV boosted the PS3 only for a month. Despite the PS3 offering a bundle with the PS3 slim.
>>747295490>A stealth game, which Physint is, which will be a Metal Gear spiritual successor, with 10+ years of no original MGS games by Konami (Survive doesn't count) means it will almost certainly be a huge success.No one cares about Metal Gear anymore dude. The most popular Metal Gear game is Metal Gear Revengence, a fucking Platinum game and all the re-releases of MGS games are mild to moderate successes that aren't even talked about a week after release (look at the MGS4 ) is proof enough of that.
>>747295589Sadly yeah, it's another Spiderman situation.They deadass dropped like 6 awful movies with only one trilogy that did somewhat well, but 2 spiderman movies made so fucking money they outright don't care. their rockstar deal will probably fund 7 concords
>>747295686>No one cares about Metal Gear>The most popular Metal Gear game is Metal Gear RevengenceSometimes i hate you guys and how hard you try to ragebait
>>747295128Sony is way too big of a target. This isn't taking a shot at Konami in Japan, rather taking a shot at a massive corporate entity encompassing various different medias and services.
>>747295619no, they want more games like Wolverine, Spider-man 2, God of War Laundry, lesbian samurai, and Bald Space lady. Kojima didn't fit into their culture.
>>747295729Kojima NOT going woke wasn't on my bingo listBased
>>747293969>More cancelled games than exclusives
>>747295537>There's no way you're going through the mountains and through that wildfire area in a fucking truck.I drive the orders from Evo Devo, Geo, and Paleo in 1 in a truck and those trucks were much worse. The mountain in 2 is a clean slop straight up in comparison.https://youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Yhttps://youtu.be/t28hDMg0_Bk
kojima was also against the no disc policy of sonya loti mean think about mgs 1 without the physical case the whole meryl codec joke would not have been possible
>>747295667he takes pictures with famous people visiting his studio like once a month, that clearly takes all his time.
>>747293969>was already out of date because Dark Outlaw Games was shut down months agoI'm excited to see how it changes by 2027
>it's not even in production yet>it's barely an idea in kojima'swhy the fuck did they even announce this to begin with?
>>747295437Not the worst financial decision. You can sell it for a profit this time around.
>>747295747What are you talking about? Kojima is woke af
You know whatIf they forced Arrowhead to make a sequel to Magicka I would buy itbut until then fuck sony
>>747288716Sounds like the opposite. Sony's dropping Kojima and Kojima's forced to go to Microslop because he has no choice and Microslop is desperate for something they can point to and put on their system. That's two companies that have unceremoniously dumped this guy so maybe he himself is the problem. Probably because all he cares about is making movie games with ballooned budges so he can hang around C-list at best Hollywood hasbeens and try and suck Hunter Schaefer's girlcock.
>>747295791>Kojima is woke afHave yet to see a blue haired fat black trans person in a kojima game you fucking retarded fuck
>>747295667He’s made two games since he started his studio.The first game has taken four years, the second one had taken 5-6. It is completely unrealistic. For example, Blackmyth had taken 6 years to make and had only seven developers in the beginning.
>>747295720Rules of nature is a kino meme to this day, no other shitjima game has the same impact. Truth hurts.
>>747295789Just for the promise of having one single fucking game
>They would rather fund capeshit like spooderman negro morales edition and emasculated wolverine over kojimaHoly shit lmao
I think Sony's gaming division will completely die out in the next couple of years
>>747295835Thats not even a kojima game are you retarded?
