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Looks interesting.
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Huh, wonder what happened behind the scenes?
Sony can take the hit. The problem is that they lost a lot of money on all the live service bullshit. I don't like Hermen Hulst. He needs to go. Time to step down, bucko.
I don't believe anything other than Hermen Hulst driving the wrong horse, driving the wrong car, driving the wrong truck. So to speak. Ever since he got in, we've been on this downward spiral. He's like the Hiroki Totoki character, waiting for the stock to fall, so they can take a payday.
If Hermen was smart enough, we'd have all this riding a high right now.
I also don't blame Bungie in a lot of ways. I do blame them for going woke, and bringing us a weak Marathon product, because if they had kept going this great run. Destiny 2 was dying anyway, but my thing is, if Bungie had just made better decisions, we wouldn't have all this problem. Bungie is a good developer, the problem is the decisions. Marathon could have been a better product, and may even become a better product than it is now. Mostly because Marathon is basically Halo. That universe is Halo. That universe is Destiny. Marathon is an experimental project, to see what they can do.
Sony is just in the worst position as a company. But I believe if Hulst and Totoki left the company, then we would be in a better position.
Sony can take a hit, but the problem with Sony right now is the management that exists now, doesn't even know who Hideo Kojima is. Neither does Microsoft under Asha Sharma. But Asha Sharma is being told to take the Hideo Kojima project because they need a killer app.
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Yeah, read up following stuff saying lack of sales and missed deadlines.
Thinking this guy isn't as great as people make him out to believe. Not sure if going with MS is smart since they are cutting the already cut corners.
Thinking this guy isn't as great as people make him out to believe. Not sure if going with MS is smart since they are cutting the already cut corners.
He should have made Physint instead of death stranding 2 after death stranding 1's so so sales. Kojima has the ability to make good stealth action games. Problem is his realy expensive personal fetish of employing hollywood expensive stars in his games, balooning the game dev cost further, and with the current era of already expensive game dev cost makes it worse. Even if the game manages to at least break even or make some profit current Sony still wants a higher or better ROI given the Kojima name in video games than the current ROI.
Mainly will depend on how good will the Physint game sales be imo. If the game bombs sales wise or not selling good enough thus low ROI again then high chance of xbox cutting ties with Kojima too.
I'm of two minds on this: It makes business sense to employ "employing" expensive stars, not so much hollywood, but the reason companies hire expensive stars is to be familiar. Secondly, they are great marketing set-pieces, for example... MADS MIKKELSEN was cast for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4...
Annnnnd.... THAT will be nasty PR for them.
Microsoft has been trying to break into the Asian markets for a while now. As long as Xbox 360 era.
Read from gamesindustrybiz
Hideo Kojima didn't think Physint "would be on the list of being cancelled" by Sony, as it is "the biggest-selling title [he] could possibly create."
"We couldn't understand it," Kojima told The Washington Post. "Jim Ryan had already retired, but I thought this was a project that Sony Interactive Entertainment and I had agreed to team up on and make together."
"I was just shocked and surprised. I didn't have any anger or sadness. I was just thinking, 'What should I do?' It's a big problem for us and I couldn't tell staff at the time."
On September 10, Kojima announced that his studio had "unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios" in mid-June that it would stop funding Physint.
"We're an independent studio. That means if they can't fund us, our studio could collapse," he said. "So many people who went independent and made a new studio have struggled to become really successful."
"If my studio closes as well, that's all the more reason for people to not go to independent studios anymore. I wanted to stand firm for indies, so I needed to find a new partner."
Kojima Productions found that partner in Xbox, which is also producing the studio's upcoming horror title OD. Kojima confirmed that the decision led to no layoffs, and staff were reassigned to work on OD with a small team continuing development on Physint.
Kojima stated that Sony did not provide a reason for cutting funding. According to a Bloomberg report, Physint had "missed deadlines and was on track to be well over budget despite being years away from release."
Sources also indicated that Death Stranding and its sequel did not meet revenue expectations.
In response, Kojima Productions stated "none of the claims written came from any official or on-the-record source and as such we encourage you to take them with a dose of scepticism."
"Make no mistake, this was a serious situation for the studio with a range of potentially significant implications. While we recognise that the article may have caused alarm, we want to reassure you all, for the record: that the studio is in a healthy, profitable state, development for Physint continues to move forward with Xbox, and our relationship with PlayStation remains strong."
Kojima reiterated that the studio still has a relationship with Sony despite its decision. "Corporations are like living things," he said. "We're not in a dispute. We're not fighting with them."
Kojima said Physint's plot and game concept are complete, the studio has started creating 3D models of its actors, and is testing various game engines.
"The cast I already talked to and negotiated with, other artists and collaborators who were all happy to do it," said Kojima. "I can't tell them this is cancelled, especially after what we went through with PT. I didn't want to go back and do it again and say to the actors this is cancelled."
Hideo Kojima didn't think Physint "would be on the list of being cancelled" by Sony, as it is "the biggest-selling title [he] could possibly create."
"We couldn't understand it," Kojima told The Washington Post. "Jim Ryan had already retired, but I thought this was a project that Sony Interactive Entertainment and I had agreed to team up on and make together."
"I was just shocked and surprised. I didn't have any anger or sadness. I was just thinking, 'What should I do?' It's a big problem for us and I couldn't tell staff at the time."
On September 10, Kojima announced that his studio had "unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios" in mid-June that it would stop funding Physint.
"We're an independent studio. That means if they can't fund us, our studio could collapse," he said. "So many people who went independent and made a new studio have struggled to become really successful."
"If my studio closes as well, that's all the more reason for people to not go to independent studios anymore. I wanted to stand firm for indies, so I needed to find a new partner."
Kojima Productions found that partner in Xbox, which is also producing the studio's upcoming horror title OD. Kojima confirmed that the decision led to no layoffs, and staff were reassigned to work on OD with a small team continuing development on Physint.
Kojima stated that Sony did not provide a reason for cutting funding. According to a Bloomberg report, Physint had "missed deadlines and was on track to be well over budget despite being years away from release."
Sources also indicated that Death Stranding and its sequel did not meet revenue expectations.
In response, Kojima Productions stated "none of the claims written came from any official or on-the-record source and as such we encourage you to take them with a dose of scepticism."
"Make no mistake, this was a serious situation for the studio with a range of potentially significant implications. While we recognise that the article may have caused alarm, we want to reassure you all, for the record: that the studio is in a healthy, profitable state, development for Physint continues to move forward with Xbox, and our relationship with PlayStation remains strong."
Kojima reiterated that the studio still has a relationship with Sony despite its decision. "Corporations are like living things," he said. "We're not in a dispute. We're not fighting with them."
Kojima said Physint's plot and game concept are complete, the studio has started creating 3D models of its actors, and is testing various game engines.
"The cast I already talked to and negotiated with, other artists and collaborators who were all happy to do it," said Kojima. "I can't tell them this is cancelled, especially after what we went through with PT. I didn't want to go back and do it again and say to the actors this is cancelled."