It’s completely surprising that Hideo Kojima is switching from Playstation to Xbox with PHYSINT games. Industry insiders say the reasons for this are weak sales of Death Stranding, as well as spy action game PHYSINT’s high budget and missed deadlines. Now, the Kojima Productions team is developing two games simultaneously with Xbox – they have been co-developing OD since 2022.
However, in addition to the two games, Xbox and Kojima Productions have also expanded their cooperation beyond the industry. how Hideo Kojima pointed outThe Microsoft team and his studio will now actively cooperate in the field of “film and television”. Currently, there are no specifics on what projects the team is preparing, but Xbox head Asha Sharma has repeatedly said she wants to expand the Xbox franchise beyond games, while Hideo Kojima has repeatedly said he wants to make a full-fledged movie.
Let us remind you that OD and PHYSINT don’t even have an approximate release date. Many refer to OD as the ideological successor to the PT games, which Kojima developed in collaboration with KONAMI. The game designer himself calls PHYSINT the game that defined the action spy genre.
This year, Kojima plans to focus on the development of OD games, and in June they even showed off some new material for the project. However, full gameplay has not been shown off until now, as it was with PHYSINT.