Alright lets think about this logically. What reason would Sony have to cancel Hideo Kojima's next game, the spiritual successor to the MGS franchise.
It was expensive garbage just like death stranding
He was going to blow the budget on frivolous bullshit like pictures of food and using celebrities like his own personal make a wish foundation for himself
>>747294210Giving Kojima a blank cheque with no oversight is a recipe for insolvency.
He spends wayyyy too much time on his games with not a lot to show for it and DS2 flopped.They weren’t willing to gamble on a new game (they should’ve, because another game is better than no game). They likely saw him as a money black hole
>>747294210SIE is run by an evil Dutchman who hates Asian people and has been cutting ties with every Asian studio that they owned or had been contracted under Shuhei Yoshida. The higher ups at Sony need to do something about that Nazi.
>>747294210It's easy to shit on Sony because they make all the wrong decisions, but Kojima was likely blowing hundreds of millions of dollars again and they decided it wasn't worth the risk
>>747294210Death Stranding 2 probably didn't pay off financially for Sony. Also, they might have tried to force him to live service it.
>>747294279>>747294287>>747294354>>747294384>>747294420> 400 million for Concord> 3.6 billion for BungieMoney isn't the issue. Race is the issue. You're all running damage control for Sony aren't you? Corporations aren't your friends you stupid faggots.
Not a snoy but why do people even care about this guy? All he does is pay c and b list celebrities to hang out with him and larp as white. There's no way metal gear solid has such a vice grip on all of you that you think for a second he deserves any of his success.
>>747294210Sony discovered why Konami got rid of him
I think everyone got sick of him using budget money to go meet american z-listers and take selfies with them then scan them. It makes him come off like some pathetic gooner.Plus DS1 and 2 are garbage tier games.
>>747294486>literally nothing but gigantic flops under Sony's umbrella>erm money isn't the issueNo, it is the issue, dumbass. Sony & Xbox are learning you can't throw unlimited money at auteurs and expect a viable product.It's almost as if losing exorbitant amounts of money affects future projects or something.
>>747294210>Even Kojima isn't gay enough for modern Sony
>>747294486Retarded polnigger, kill yourself.
Maybe he's just not pleasant to work with.
>>747294486>gain concord>drop kojimboDo you think anyone is running damage control for snoy? Seriously?
>>747294210Death Stranding 2 underperformed heavily and there must have been some interal conflict between Kojima and Sony that was never disclosed, probably since 2022 when Kojima partnered with Xbox to develop OD. While OD has shown steady development, we have yet to see a single video of what Physint may even look like and Sony is not happy about that.
>>747294210>"hey kojima sir, I know you are going with Xbox to do your silly little horror game, but can you give us something to us too? we kinda need something after Death Stranding 2 after all">"sure, i have this idea for an mgs inspr...">"great idea! use whatever you like to promote it, we will discuss stuff like budget and shit not important like that later">2 years after>"hey, i got the budget for the game we annouced, i'm already ready to move on from OD">checks absurd budget costs >"oof man, i'm kinda low in cash.... but hey, we can cancel it and you can make something else right?? hello??? kojima sir??? did you hang up??"
>>747294210He hasn't made a good game in over 20 years.
>>747294210Death Stranding 2 was a commercial failure. Normies can't handle good games
>>747294486kojima isn't my friend either retard
>>747294486You can't be racist towards asians, they're the global majority by a lot and have a long continuous history of human rights atrocities dating back thousands of years up until today
Kojima used the goodwill from MGS to rinse Sony, you could almost hear them smiling through gritted teeth reading through their announcement.He's going to pull off a trifecta now. Xbox are signing on to what may be the dumbest decision in the industry's history.
>>747294210Because Kojima was likely against the anti-physical media tactic Sony is pushing
>>747294210My guess is that their finances are even more shitty than what anyone thought possible.
>>747295138I dunno man, the jeeta seems to be cracking the whip. Maybe she's the tard wrangler Kojimbo needs after being allowed to run amok for a decade.
>>747294210Japs games are inferior, obviously
>>747294210>HERRO I MAKE SPY GAME STARRING FAIRED SIDEKICK FROM BURAKINGU BADDU AND SEXY NEWHAFFU IS VERY IMPOTANT PREASE GIBBU ME WAN BIRRION DORRAH BUDZETTO TO MAKE
>200 mirrion dorrar for unprofitabur passion project, prease.
I like Kojima, but maybe instead of meeting with American celebrities daily he could actually work on the actual games.
>>747294210trammy fucker
>>747294486Is that why Konami fired him too?
>>747294486>least schizo kojimble cultist
>>747294486you aren't white so fuck off
>>747294523he came up with something called "camera" maybe you've heard of it.
>>747294210Perfectly reasonable answers is that they’re projecting hard times ahead on account of this component crisis (ps6 is going to be over a 1000 dollars, it’s inevitable, and in turn it will inevitably sell like shit) so they’re tightening their coffers and making economies where possible. Stopping disc production is one such measure. Cutting funding for a project developed by a studio they don’t even own, that’ll make probably decent (but not astronomical) money back, is another measure.
>finally drop Double Fine so they're no longer donating to some prestige maybe-we'll-make-a-game-maybe-we-won't bullshit>save enough money to fund a studio that makes actual games on real schedules>flip the money right over to Kojima instead so he can do the same shitWhat the fuck are they thinking
>>747294210Because he spoke out about sony ending discs.
>>747294210Hermann heard PHYSINT isn't a live service and axed it
It's been 2 years and we still have nothing. Death Stranding took 4 years.
>>747295232Man, Asha is tiny. Now that I think about it, I’ve never seen a tall jeet.
>>747296960enjoy waiting another 2 years because sony tried to cancel this game
>>747294210herman hulst was jealous that kojima's projects make money so he fired him
How about giving Kojima a deadline and a budget.
>>747296874HERMAN HOLSTED BY HIS BALLS FROM THE CEILING AND PADDLED RELENTLESSLY BY SUMOSSONY MUST RETURN TO LAND OF RISING SUN
If he keeps going like this there won't be anyone paying him.
>>747294618Basically the same problem film studios learned at the end of the '70s.
>>747294536>Plus DS1 and 2 are garbage tier games.Filtered
>>747294210>sony need to cut cost>let go of some employee/team>danger hair admin checks list>hmm... >this one has Shaniqua in it and we were buddies back in tmblr days, good times>this one has contract with my Voice Actress(male) friend>this one is managing our Latinx specialist department, she's so funny in discord HahA! >oh ko.. Kojim.. Bo? Hu dis?>writes email to Kojimbo>you're terminated. Don't call back, we'll call you. KtnxbyeHe is not part of the clique.
>>747294210Playstation is broke.
>>747294210Kojima is making a game that people want to play, Sony is doing the opposite.
>>747294523He was the most popular auteur during the sixth and seventh generation of consoles. For every person that knew about Kenji Eno you had ten thousand that knew about Kojima. People bought Zone of the Enders just because it came with an MGS2 demo. He was "that guy". He was him. Then he screwed Phantom Pain up, and he hasn't recovered since.
kojima want to blow money on big actors
Logically he is a very eccentric guy who asks for a lot and has a very determined mindset and enough clout to not be totally replaced by the studio and after the studio fucked up too much they chose to cut him loose and just face the backlash. It has been a bad year for Sony pr they must have figured fuck it what's one more
>>747298339That fat Korean seems to be the kiss of death for vidya.
>>747294210too expensive and Death Rising 2 didn't meet expectationsLa Creatividad's luck is running out, he needs to do some gatcha or some other gimmick to recover the money sink from all of his celebrity cameos
>Konami>SonyMaybe it's Kojima's fault? We use the same logic for Jews...
>>747298157He's right about one of the two, at least.
> all those yous from racistsThe American games industry is crumbling beneath your feet and you deserve it. You deserve everything that comes your way.
The whole thing really doesn't make sense. If money and deadline are issues, how are you going to explain naughty dog's new game and that new horizon game?
>>747294486You raped them, they BIG mad.
>>747294618Concord and Marathon weren't made by auteurs. They were made by hack American game devs who only make FPS games because they are easy to make. Herman Hulst threw money at them because they are white owned and operated studios.
>>747298709TLOU2 sold 4 million copies in 3 days
The funniest part is that Physint is still coming to PS6 because Switch 2 is too weak and no one buys Xbox in Japan
>>747294210>>747298709well if you consider the shareholder takeover that's been happening the past couple of years in the industry, you might find it less surprising. Hideo Kojima is a game designer. Strauss Zelnick, isn't. The former made a name off of videogame development. The latter essentially bought his way into being CEO of Take Two. Etc
>>747294618I've met more earnest fans of Kojima than I have of nuHalo, so I still count this as a step-up for Xbox
>>747294210it's obviously because he didn't want to agree on botching facescans to make women look like tranniessony wants to please troons and kojima is the last man who makes good facescans
>>747294210They remembered he's Japanese and panicked
>>747299046Kojima hired actual trans people
>>747294210He wanted one too many expensive celebrities this time around and Sony can no longer justify his spending. Hideo Kojima will now syphon celebrity meetup funds from xbox instead. Both Sony and Kojima are fucking terrible. Both Kojima and Konami were fucking awful and deserved each other. Two things can be true at the same time, you do NOT have to pick one side and often times are both shit and there is no "good" side. it's all shit in this particular case.
>>747294210because death stranding was dogshit and kids have no fucking idea who kojima is.
>>747298469>tfw you know you're about to be fired since you promised the GOTY award to your publisher
>>747299114hunter Schafer is a baddie doe
>>747298823Their new game budget is about $600 million now and been in development for seven years.
I'm convinced the only people who ''enjoyed'' DS are coast office liberals who never interact with the lower classes. Who the fuck wants to play an ubereat simulator? ''Oh but you can admire the empty wasteland around you, look 4k rocks and dirt!''
>>747299131The most expensive Kojima game would still be less expensive than TLOU2.
>>747295421Yeah this. Kojima needs to be policed by someone. His best games were made when he had oppressive leadership like konami. Left on his own and you get DS2, an actual cuckold story
>>747294384>He spends wayyyy too much time on his games with not a lot to show for it?Death Stranding took like less than 4 years to come out despite being his staff needing to get siphoned from Konami and working on a new engine for them. Death Stranding id actually one of the games I feel is a good example of a well managed modern day AAA game.Death Stranding 2 took a long time, but so has literally every game in development when Covid hit.
>>747299386Fukushima himself admitted that he barely had any impact on the writing of MGS1 and 2.
>>747295050PT is 13 years old tho
>>747299410Actually DS2 took the same amount of time as 1.
>>747294210What kind of question is this? News broke out Sony canceled Kojima's game? When did this happened?>he spends too much time on his gamesLMAO Check the retard talking without any sense whatsoever of what he is talking about. Why do this? Why expose yourself as a retard on the internet?
>>747299495Was that before or after the Yakuza disappeared him?
>>747299568Before. He said this during the Making of MGS2 documentary.
>>747297040She's slightly taller than Todd though...
>>747294210I hope he dies this year, I'm tired of his bullshit.
>>747299134I would rather have him make his game and fail than be subject to whatever shit is supposed to replace him. and you know its shit worse off. the kids know who he is if they've ever heard of MGS
>>747294210he already talked about retire but still with ideas on his mind and it connect with the date sony told kojipro to fuck off.
>>747295232I want to fuck Asha big timeHow many xboxex series X do I need to buy for that?
>>747298408Which is really cause he's actually a really fucking great actor and improves every movie he's in.Train to Busan would be an objectively worse movie without him in it.
>>747299921Really strange* fuck
>>747295232Another Asha W xbox will dominate next gen
>>747298893Did you not hear the jeeta? She said exclusives are back on the menu. This is her fire test and her chance to gain gamers trust so if she goes back on any of her statements everyone will know she is Phil Spenser #2.
>>747296773Kojimbo funded his own studio and made one AA game that looks like AAA, and one actual AAA game in 10 yearsDouble Fine was costing just as much as an AAA studio, while launching only remasters and garbage that indie companies would do on 1/100 of their budgetThe math is simple here, Kojimbo isn't a Fumito Ueda type of guy, you might not like his games, but he always delivers the projects he promises.
>>747294210>What reason would Sony have to cancel Hideo Kojima's next gameThey probably ran out of money and looked at the death stranding 1&2 numbers.
>>747296960Sony cancelled it on June, so there was likely no progress or dev time invested on it at least until Xbox took as publisher. And surely add more three months there for things to take off againSo you can add more 6 months to that wait
Xebos does that Sony Physint
>>747294210Kojima spends too much cash. Yes, Sony is still trying to make live service games a thing and they will never stop trying.
>>747300153Xbox is what Sony Physint* dumbass
Call me an idiot, but what is exactly stopping Kojimbo to just go full PC Master Race? He doesn't need a advertisement campaign because he's Kojimbo. He wouldn't have a problem convincing investors because he's Kojimbo. What am I missing here?
>>747300371PCfags only buys simulators or shooters, not cinematic games.
>>747300214Somebody needs to pick Hulst by his neck, and slap him with pictures of lewd Marvel Rivals characters, until he finally understands that there's simply no way Sony can compete with thatHero shooter is a genre for coomers. If they want money, they should make more games like Helldivers, stuff for dudebros, a market that for some reason too much women in the industry, duh is now untapped>>747300371Security. If a game launch fumbles, his company is screwed. If the game launch fumbles and it was funded, only the publisher got fucked overAlthough his name brings enough traction that his games would hardlly not pay themselves, this is still a business, and big bets are for idiots
>>747294210Sony footed most of the bill for the Death Strandings and got basically nothing out of it. AAA third-party exclusives haven't been sustainable since like gen 7
>>747294210Kojima wanted a physical discsOr disagreement over exclusives
>>747296773Double Fine games flop harder and no one gives a shit about them. Kojima still has important industry connections and is influential. Imagine having your own Metal Gear successor from the main creator himself, it would at least sell x10 than the average Double Fine project.
>>747298709Horizon is the industry nepobaby, it's entire existence is owed to the fact that PlayStation is lead by the old head of Guerilla
>>747294210Death Stranding 2 sucked and he takes way too long on projects. After he was fired from Konami he knew he had to produce something quick, which he did, but now he's sitting on his laurels again, doing the same shit he did while at Konami (but a little more quiet and irrelevant)
I'm not that impressed with DS1 or 2. Both seem like some zany side projects rather than flagship titles that were expected of Kojima.And lately he's been more concerned about full body scans of american starlets than getting work done.Every time some flavor of the month movie or show shows up he's all over twitter hailing whoever is in them as the best actor/actress ever and immediately bullshitting up projects to get them to get into his scanning pod.Really creepy vibes out of this dude lately. He got to the age where he's just an old perv and everyone knows it.
>>747300659>Why didn't you say that? Of course we'll develop Horizon Rivals with the same cast from Hunter Gatherers!
>>747294210>What reason would Sony have to cancel Hideo Kojima's next game, the spiritual successor to the MGS franchise.
Sony was going to force him to cancel the PC version, Kojima said no
>>747300918>Both seem like some zany side projects rather than flagship titles that were expected of Kojima.The games are literally>cutscene cutscene cutscene>walk walk walk>corny dialogue and gay reasons why some things work / don't workThat's pretty much exactly what was expected of Kojima, and turns out it isn't particularly amazing
>please Sony-gumi I need $50mil cash to scan my favorite actress of this week it is necessary for big game
>>747301149He's a spinmaster. Just loves putting out trailers and starting projects and having people speculate.I remember how everyone was into the DS trailer and speculating about what it could all mean.It meant fuck all.
>>747294210Sony lost too much money on Marathon and developing Horizon GaaS and Fairgames.They need to avoid all expenses to keep the lights on
>>747294210Probably asked for millions to go on more dates with hollywood celebs so he can feel like the movie director he never was
>>747294486It's probably not race. It's most likely more of>urm I need this star actress to show her armpits or feetand sony went>nah bro, we not doing this anymore
>>747301439I'm not so sure. Kojima is doing that with the tranny actress now which seems exactly what Sony likes
Gratuitous Dakota fanning ass shots
>>747300918You’re just making some assumptions.Almost all of the DS female characters are literally a bunch of hags with the exception of the Asian ones.There is no genuine creepy moments with any of the female characters at all when they’re appearing in cutscenes, for most of parts, they’re acting like girl bosses. I would even say the that their onscreen times were boring and unnecessary.
>>747294210they need money for concord 2
>>747301515I'm talking about his general obsession about full body scanning whoever he sees in some streamslop that week.Clearly it's some sort of fetish to him.
>people conveniently forgetting that "covered in cum" option in the MGS4 photo mode with the B&B teamhe was always a massive perv, but this whole development with rounding up b-listers from Hollywood likely made him go nuts
>>747294210Not gay enough
>>747294210DS2 sold 2 million copies which is disastrous for a Sony AAA game with a star-studded cast and an expensive soundtrack.
>>747294210I think DS2 probably flopped
>>747294210Probably because Kojima took 6 years and $150 million to release mediocre DLC for Death Stranding
>>747294210If I was a higher up at Sony, I would call Hulst to the HQ and put his hands on the chopping board
>>747298408I really wanted to play that fat gook Yakuza ripoff
