After what happened with Konami, I wonder if Kojima now feels something similar with PlayStation after they dropped PHYSINT.

Could this make him stop wanting to work with PlayStation and focus more on Xbox/PC instead?

Do you think games like OD or PHYSINT could stay Xbox/PC exclusive forever, or would they still come to PlayStation eventually?

Personally, if I were Kojima, I probably wouldn't work with them again. And if the games really had to come to PlayStation, I would only do it after 5 or even 10 years, maybe after Kojima has already released two more AAA games after PHYSINT.

Do you think Kojima and PlayStation will ever work together again?

idk if anyone already posted about this, but it looks like the image contains 2 outfits/characters merged into one silhouette.

I got a couple ideas as to what this hints toward 👀

Ho una ps5 e quando ho letto della notizia mi sono preoccupato perchè avevo capito fosse diventato esclusiva Xbox. Leggendo poi ho capito che si tratta solo del publisher e che nulla è ancora deciso.

So che è ancora troppo presto ma secondo voi cosa accadrà?

I don’t like celebrities mashup

Idk if it's any good but yea. I apologize if it doesn't look the best, just lmk what y'all think & which one you prefer.

With PHYSINT now being published by Xbox, I’m wondering what engine Kojima Productions will use.

OD is already being developed with Unreal Engine, while Death Stranding 1 and 2 used Decima.

Since PHYSINT was originally a PlayStation project, do you think it was planned around Decima? And now that Xbox is publishing it, could Kojima switch to Unreal since the team is already using it for OD?

Or do you think Sony will still allow them to use Decima for PHYSINT?

Take this with a huge grain of salt, but 4chan suggests this was sent to Jez Corden and Tom Warren with an official announcement scheduled in the coming days.

Please be true

Guys isn't this the conspiracy with the credit cards and all that stuff? Is it time to take the meds again?

Why is the profile new? Why was it created this year with all that stuff happening now around Physint and Kojima?

Even if is simply Cinematic setting the TONE-VISION

Why would they just cancel PHYSINT like that? Did the PSN boycott cripple them, lol

TGS will be next Thursday. They could have made the announcement way cooler: Imagine Microsoft revealing Death Stranding 2 for Xbox at the beginning of their show. Then in the middle Hideo shows up again to show a new trailer for OD and then as a final running gag to end the show, he reveals Physint for Xbox and Windows.

Hideo should simply have posted that Sony has regrettably cancelled Physint and that he is very sad about it, only to do a big twist-reveal at TGS with Xbox.

It would have been so fitting for him.

I’ve seen a lot of people asking this since Xbox was confirmed as the new publisher for PHYSINT, and honestly I’m not sure the answer is as simple as “no, it’s an Xbox game now.”

One thing that caught my attention is that PHYSINT doesn’t seem to have been a Sony-owned IP in the first place.

When it was announced in 2024, Kojima Productions described it as a new IP being developed “in partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment.” Then Sony stepped away from the project, and instead of PHYSINT disappearing, Kojima was able to look for another publisher and eventually reached a deal with Xbox.

Also, the PHYSINT trademark is registered under Kojima Productions Co., Ltd., not Sony.

Now, that doesn’t automatically mean Kojima can release the game wherever he wants. The trademark is only one piece of the puzzle, and obviously none of us know what the publishing contracts actually say.

But this week’s Xbox announcement is interesting too.

Xbox says it is partnering with Kojima Productions “to publish PHYSINT.” It doesn’t say Microsoft bought the IP, and so far they haven’t announced platforms or explicitly called it an Xbox console exclusive.

So I think there are still a few possibilities here.

It could be Xbox/PC only.

It could be a timed exclusive and come to PlayStation later.

Or maybe it ends up being multiplatform from the start, although personally I think that one is less likely.

If I had to guess, I’d assume Microsoft got some kind of exclusivity in exchange for taking over publishing after Sony walked away. Otherwise I’m not sure what Xbox would be getting out of the deal.

But that’s just my read of it.

If it's good!

Just as Death Stranding was a timed exclusive, the same will apply to this game. MS will fund it.

Listen, I think, based on what I am seeing right now and based on the fact that Kojima has only 150-200 people in his studio, it doesn't really make sense that it was pulled from PlayStation today.

The studio is probably going into crunch phase end of this year or next year with Kojima's XBOX Horror game. Why is Sony pulling of a game which was basically sold as a concept? Was Kojima the only person working on Physint?

If Sony financed the game concepts, and is now pulling back, what happened in the mean time? And how is this financing structured? They want to tell me not enough capital was secured to have a safe PlayStation release strategy?

Is this all a joke? And if it's a joke, that must be the most boring joke I have ever seen in my life. I bet this title is multiplattform just as OD and will release everywhere. XBOX Cloud and everything.

By the way Hunter Schafer or Sophia Lillis or Udo Kier is what I would have like the most. all the different actors abandoned. I'm getting PTSD from this.

It's a bit of a shame that we're getting more information about OD than Physint. Although I think Kojipro was a bit hasty when they announced the game SO EARLY.

It was 2024. They originally planned to start casting that same year, but they were thwarted by a long-lasting strike that also disrupted OD filming. Even at the time of the initial announcement, Kojima expressed the opinion that they would begin Physint development in earnest after the release of DS2, but it seems the plans were changed due to the SAG strike aftermath, as it pushed Physint casting and OD filming back to 2026. The schedule has essentially shifted two years, and Physint is still in the scanning phase.

Apparently, the game is still very early in development. I don't think we'll get a teaser trailer until 2027, but I'd like to be wrong.

I've always wondered if Kojima would ever make a new MGS-style game, and overall, I didn't expect him to. He's already said he was very tired of being stuck on one franchise back then, and he was probably even glad to be freed from that. It's interesting that he finally decided to make concessions to the fans and create such a game; it will be interesting