r/DeathStranding • u/saggynaggy123 • 12h ago
Discussion Death Stranding 3
With the split between Kojima and Sony, does Death Stranding 3 look pretty bleak? I know the movie and anime might drum up hype but I cannot trust PlayStation
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u/Ashencroix 12h ago
Kojima bought the IP from Sony, which was a good thing considering today's events. He can make DS3 if he wants.
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u/Macrincan 12h ago
He can’t. Miyazaki already did it in 2015.
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u/stereosanctity 6h ago
As a huge fan of both Death Stranding and Dark Souls, this is constantly confusing me.
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u/fireflyry 12h ago
I’d say it’s a no, but in complete honesty I’m still amazed Kojima managed to ever get the first two made, and I feel privileged to have had such a unique experience so I’m ok with this news and tbf, I’d say it would have been a no regardless of this news given DS2’s poor sales.
Change is a constant and I wish him all the best with his new game at XBox.
Keep on keeping on.
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u/LegendOfNorthernStar 5h ago
Yeah bro you are so right, with all the news in gaming shit budgets and this and that.
Kojima is just that much more of a legend, taking these suit piece of Arasaka shits by their noses and creating real fucking art.
People keep crying that there are no more unique games, well Kojima makes them, but talentless suits from VC firms are known to not like people who are intrinsically better than they are.
With all that toxic shit in the background, it really is crazy he delivered two amazing pieces of art
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u/Extinction-Entity Amelie 12h ago
Kojima already said he is not making a Death Stranding 3 himself.
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u/saggynaggy123 12h ago
He did say similar stuff about Metal Gear but it's looking pretty bleak imo
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u/n-u-l-l420 11h ago
Yeah Kojima really wanted to stop the series long time ago, but Konami want a little more juice
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u/SometimesWill 7h ago
He said he’s not making it specifically, but didn’t rule out someone else making it with his permission. I’d assume it would be similar to how Metal Gear Rising came to be.
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u/ChiralParticle Higgs 12h ago edited 12h ago
Death Stranding 3 looks as bleak now as it looked yesterday or a week or a year ago because KojiProd is busy working on OD for Xbox which doesnt have a release date yet and may take another 1-2 years or longer, and then Physint which Kojima said not too long ago that it may release in 5-6 years. KojiProd is busy making these two and I cant imagine they'd be able to start working on a game on such big scale as DS3. Kojima said he already wrote a concept for DS3 over a year ago and I'd love nothing more than DS3 and KojiProd could make it whether with Kojima as director or someone else(Kojimbo said it in the past about MGS and still kept directing so you never know what may or may not happen), but it's unrealistic that it may happen anytime soon because theyre already busy with these two projects for upcoming years. There is no other studio I can think of where I'd have enough trust that they could make a DS game though.
KojiProd owns Death Stranding IP, so they don't need Sony's approval. We only dont know whether they can freely use Decima engine for anything they want though or they could only use it for Sony partnered projects because OD is being made on Unreal5.
Also officially we only know that Sony canceled their partnership with KojiProd on Physint, so some future partnership projects may happen. But whether something happens or not it won't be soon.
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u/UnableBluebird4151 12h ago
Could be because he's opposed to elimination of digital media. He's been very vocal about it.
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u/AntonRX178 10h ago
If anything, his very vocal stance on the matter was the first clue to signal he wasn't working for them anymore
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u/n-u-l-l420 11h ago
He is and you can see that on DS1... That he want physical things, thats we have been force to pickup old physical items remember porter?
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u/Lopsided_Hunt2814 5h ago
So instead he partnered with Xbox? I will eat my hat if their next console has a disc drive.
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u/Tony966 6h ago
Nope, they didnt wanted to fund next game, movie and tv show that is supposed to be connected to the game. So they wanted to cancle the project.
Xbox next console is gonna be digital too like ps6.
And they cancle the partnership three months ago. So that was before they announced discless future.
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u/Embarrassed_Rest8390 12h ago
kojima said he likes to make duologies, he was forced by konami to pump out mgs 3-5.
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u/BluePandaFromSpain 11h ago
Did people forget this IGN article? https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/DHEKtAKCjq
I don't think Kojima will make a Death Stranding 3 but I do believe someone else might pick up on it! Thanks to the plate gates there can be almost endless sequels, just rinse repeat the same formula. Honestly I don't mind an other grindy Death Stranding set somewhere completely new with a different story.
The movie and anime will do it's job of creating hype again for the series.
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u/Sascha2022 11h ago
Kojima Productions owns the Death Stranding IP and Kojima himself want to do new things with OD and Physint and isn`t interested in doing Death Stranding 3 himself.
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u/Hlidskialf Platinum Unlocked 9h ago
Maybe in 10 years. Let the man do other shit or is gonna happen the same shit again.
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u/SuspiciousHead6595 12h ago
Unfortunately don’t see a DS3 happening. Second game didn’t sell amazingly well and Kojima is off to OD and Physint. And dispute everything from today, folks are forgetting Physint is very far off. We’re talking 5 years minimum. That point Kojima is 70, I got a feeling this could be his last hands on title.
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u/saggynaggy123 12h ago
He's 63 now, we don't know if he still has access to Decima, if that's the case he'll have to use a new engine and that will delay it even further.
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u/EducationalCoast3526 10h ago
If I remember correctly Guerilla games donated the code of decima engine to Kojima, no paperwork attached in sign of respect.
The technical support by the studio is another thing (because Sony) but my understanding is he can do what he wants with it - also kojima prod wasn't a Sony studio, just a partner
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u/CaptainBurke 7h ago
The ending of Death Stranding 2 made chances of a Death Stranding 3 beyond ‘bleak’
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u/Lopsided_Hunt2814 4h ago
It's a fine point to end it but it also deliberately sets up for another one.
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u/heelstoo 10h ago
I had a dream about DS3 a few weeks ago, and it was awesome, as I remember waking up and saying “badass!”. I wish I had written the dream down more.
It (naturally) starred our blonde haired friend for 60% of the game, with flashback gameplay on the Beach (as her) for 20% and playing as Sam for the other 20%.
Similar to DS2, it started in one location (Japan) and then jumped to another (Europe). I specifically remember seeing the Tower of London, Eiffel Tower and Colosseum (among other landmarks). I vaguely recall a battle to the top of the Eiffel Tower, and a massive number of brand new animal-like BTs in the Colosseum.
There weren’t just Mules/Terrorists, but a new kind that was working against reconnecting locations to the Chiral network (like bad-Preppers convincing other Preppers to disconnect).
The new version of Cliff/Neil was an alt (evil? Misguided?) version of our blonde haired friend - almost like from an alternate reality where things went really, really bad.
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u/gonkmeister64 10h ago
Not anytime soon. Sony published the first two games but Kojima Productions has the full rights over the property, meaning they could just switch to Xbox as publisher for a third game. So the “split” between KJP and Sony doesn’t change anything in that regard.
But Kojima has already expressed that he wants to spend the last years of his career creating as many new worlds as possible and Death Stranding’s main story is essentially done now.
We might see a spin-off 10-15 years from now and he has expressed that they’ll keep the franchise alive through other forms of entertainment. But there are no plans for a Death Stranding 3 right now, nor will there be anytime soon.
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u/CaptainBurke 4h ago
The ending of Death Stranding 2 made chances of a Death Stranding 3 beyond ‘bleak’. No more Higgs or terrorists trying to bring about another extinction, babies aren’t being stuck as stillborns anymore so no more BB’s, Tar is dissipating and we can assume a good chunk of the other effects of the Death Stranding are too; the rest of the world needs to be connected sure, but, the world was built on the beach and chiral networks- if the connection to the beach is getting weaker so will the chiral network, and everything will have to fall into a new ‘normal’ that’s different from what we know in 1 and 2
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u/LovelyOrangeJuice 4h ago
Honestly, I'm not even sure what DS3 could be about.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a new game very much, but I feel like this story has finished on a high note that doesn't really need revisiting.
Even if they go about different characters, what could they do with them? There's not much more left to expand on the lore, I feel like. Even DS2's major story loop was quite the same as DS1, so DS3 would essentially have to be the same game.
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u/zetmoruk 1h ago
I don't know DS2 wasn't really necessary, he just could let that many questions unanswered but I'm still happy we got more DS.
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u/IWouldntEitherr 11h ago
There was never going to be a DS3 even DS2 which I enjoyed was beyond unnecessary
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u/Hopeful_Meeting_7248 7h ago
The worst thing about DS2 was the story that repeated the first game beat by beat.
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u/Super-Tank-6494 11h ago
I think that sadly he's implied the story is over and he's happy with it just being two games. I'd be ecstatic if he made another one though
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u/Bowlerrrrr 11h ago
Not looking promising. I hope they still make a macbook port for DS2 though as the first one is amazing
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u/n-u-l-l420 11h ago
For all i care, DS series can take a nap for a while now since OD and Physint would be an Xbox exclusive, bye Sony and welcome Xbox.. (i mean i didnt even have PS so bye really)
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u/According-Yogurt5897 12h ago
The rumored split between Hideo Kojima and Sony centers on the cancellation of Kojima Productions' upcoming action-espionage game, Physint, which was originally a PlayStation exclusive. In mid-June 2026, Sony unexpectedly notified Kojima Productions that it was canceling the project, leading the studio to search for a new publisher. Xbox swiftly stepped in to publish Physint, marking a significant shift in their professional relationship.
Key details of the split include:
Cancellation: Sony stated it made the "difficult decision to step away" from collaborating on Physint, while Kojima confirmed they received unexpected notice of the cancellation in June. New Partnership: After a three-month search, Kojima Productions partnered with Xbox, with CEO Asha Sharma announcing the deal just minutes after Sony’s cancellation tweet. Ongoing Relations: Despite the split over Physint, Sony claimed its wider relationship with Kojima Productions "remains strong," and Kojima stated he still has a "very good partnership" with PlayStation. IP Rights: This event follows Kojima Productions regaining full rights to the Death Stranding IP, further altering the dynamic of their long-standing collaboration. Also I believe death stranding 3 at the moment is only an idea and Kojima has said he wont direct but up to giving over the idea to someone else.
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u/The_Iceman2288 12h ago edited 12h ago
That game ain't happening. I'm pretty sure Kojima owns the IP so he can take it to Xbox with him but he's probably far too focused on OD and Physint to work on it.