Physint

[OM3G4_247]

It's been confirmed that Physint will now be published by Xbox instead of PlayStation.



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PlayStation also confirmed this



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Now the biggest question I have on my mind is if this will be an Xbox Exclusive or not, since Xbox has become more aggressive with releasing exclusive titles recently.

The community responded about as well as you'd imagine it would:







Kojima himself has also been vocal about the end of physical media, which aligns with the timeline of events when the deal with Sony started to weaken.
It's not confirmed if this was the cause, but the correlation is too close to ignore.



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[DarkPrince]

Someone at Sony realised Kojima wasn't making a GaaS game so they cut ties

Keep speed running to failure Sony. It's just crazy the amount of terrible decisions this company is making at the moment.

 

[OM3G4_247]

Someone at Sony realised Kojima wasn't making a GaaS game so they cut ties

Keep speed running to failure Sony. It's just crazy the amount of terrible decisions this company is making at the moment.

Hubris on a whole new level from PlayStation!

This was honestly not on my bingo card for this year, I would never have guessed that PlayStation would make these idiotic choices this year.
It honestly seems to me like PlayStation is actively trying to see how much they can push players before their bottom line feels it.

No joke, I'm actually starting to think this is research to see just how much they can get away with, because it just seems more reasonable.
The alternative is that people in positions of power at PlayStation are making these kinds of choices and think it's actually a good idea.
If that's the case, then it just means PlayStation is currently being managed by people who have a room-temperature IQ, which is somehow way worse, but would frankly explain a lot.

Then again, PlayStation also seems to have something against attractive women in the new games they publish, while Kojima uses the excuse that a female character "breathes through her skin" to explain why an attractive women is in a bikini on the battlefield.

At least now, we will hopefully also have Physint on PC, whereas if it were published by PlayStation, that probably would not have happened.
Maybe it also means the female characters won't look like they came from a Lindsay Clancy support rally.

 

[Cathal]

Fact that they tried to play it off as mutual decision just for Kojima to tell everyone the decision was a blindside is funny as ****.

The Japanese are strong about relationships in corporate spheres. This is definitely not something that's going to be forgotten.

 

[Evil_Villain]

While I agree on Sony being complete dimwits lately, I'm also not a huge fan of the pseudo intellectual kojima games either, and after death stranding 2 can't say it's a surprising decision.

To be fair I've been out the loop and hadn't even heard of this game until now,

But they need to keep it real and say the game is boring amd kojima is wasting their time instead of this fake mutual understanding.

 

[DarkPrince]

"Sony pulled out of an upcoming game by Hideo Kojima because of concerns over budget, potential profitability and exclusivity"

"One major factor behind the decision was the commercial performance of Kojima's previous two games, Death Stranding and its sequel, which didn't meet PlayStation's revenue expectations"

"the new project has also missed deadlines and was on track to be well over budget despite being years away from release. In addition, PlayStation was reluctant to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in another game that wouldn't remain permanently exclusive to the company's own hardware. Both Death Stranding games were "timed" PlayStation exclusives that were later released on other platforms. Kojima's closely held studio, Kojima Productions, retained ownership of the franchises"

Sounds like Kojima.

 

[OM3G4_247]

"Sony pulled out of an upcoming game by Hideo Kojima because of concerns over budget, potential profitability and exclusivity"

"One major factor behind the decision was the commercial performance of Kojima's previous two games, Death Stranding and its sequel, which didn't meet PlayStation's revenue expectations"

"the new project has also missed deadlines and was on track to be well over budget despite being years away from release. In addition, PlayStation was reluctant to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in another game that wouldn't remain permanently exclusive to the company's own hardware. Both Death Stranding games were "timed" PlayStation exclusives that were later released on other platforms. Kojima's closely held studio, Kojima Productions, retained ownership of the franchises"

Sounds like Kojima.

Kojima honestly rather wanted to be a movie director and it shows.
I read "The Creative Gene" and it it he mentions how the first thing he tried to make as a kid was a zombie movie that he tried to charge people to watch.
That's why moves like trying to get Kurt Russell to voice Snake in MGS V really should be no surprise.

He's big on reading books and watching movies and draws a ton of inspiration from them.
But with big Hollywood names, comes big price tags.

I know he likes it, but honestly in terms of gameplay, I don't think it's worth the tradeoff.
I love his work, but he's due a reality check.