alt Hacker NewsPlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in
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Pretty remarkable. There are only three reasons I intend to buy a PS5 and Kojima games are one of them.
This is very strange given the long-standing relationship between the two parties.
Surprised Valve didn't try to step in. There was a comment from a former Valve employee that they had tried to recruit Kojima for an earlier project (probably Death Stranding) but got outbid.
Give them hell, Kojima. I will buy PHYSINT on any platform that has the guts to release it.
I mean every time that Kojima made a game it turned out to be something that people talk about for years on. But the second it gets slightly more ambitious investors get their panties in the knot about it even though throughout history Kojima's products made a massive return. This split will also, in my opinion, lead to Kojima losing access to Decima engine, which sucks in a whole different way.
who actually owns the physint IP — kojima productions or sony? if sony paid for preproduction that handoff gets messy fast
decima was sony's though — xbox port means new engine, that's the real delay
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While PlayStation is on a streak of one bad decision after the other, I'd give them benefit of the doubt here.
Kojima likes to work unhinged on grand ideas with a tall budget which may stick or not stick at all. So may be Sony didn't like the direction of Physint and decided to dump it.
While Sony may be wrong in judging the game in its early stage, the replacement publisher, Microsoft, has solid track record of terrible taste at creating exclusives.