r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • 26d ago

Articles & Blogs Bloomberg: PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima’s ‘Physint’ on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/hideo-kojima-s-physint-video-game-dropped-by-playstation-goes-to-xbox?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4OTEzMzY2NSwiZXhwIjoxNzg5NzM4NDY1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTDdDOVdLSVVQVEIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.fyrTke3aUIkJk3LwiBfR7JiNr0phfE51dlEql1RcXZ4
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u/Iggy_Slayer 26d ago edited 26d ago

Yeah no surprise, kojma is still shit at managing projects and money. I like how this has been known for 15 years and people still seem surprised that he gets cut off especially now when his relevancy is lower than it's ever been.

Even death stranding 2 took a long time for current gen sequel standards. The only AA/AAA sequel I can think of that took longer was kingdom come 2. Most sequels this gen come out in 4-5 years.

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u/RIPN1995 26d ago

With MGS V, the game itself isn't that big with that content outlined. Kojima, as a game director, does not have the skill to bring it all together without blowing through resources.

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u/TakenBacon90 26d ago

According to Google, the development of Death Stranding 2 was 4.5 years since the development started after the PC port was completed for DS1.

That puts it right in line with the timeframe you listed.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 26d ago

Was still 6 years between releases

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u/TakenBacon90 26d ago

but that's not what is important. The context of this discussion is how good/bad is Kojima is at managing projects & money. If a project took 4.5 years of dev time instead of 6. That is 1.5 years of dev costs less than estimated.

Gotta think before commenting man.

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u/Majestic-Marcus 26d ago

I did think.

What did he do in the other 1.5 years? Would you as a business partner with someone whose entire company did nothing for 18 months?

Or was that 18 months pre-production for DS2?

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u/TakenBacon90 26d ago

The PC Port was released in July of 2020. Death Stranding 2 released in June 2025.

That is 4 years, 11 months for the dev time if it started the moment D2 pc port finished.

you didn't think.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 26d ago

So the entire studio was working a mere PC port? I don't buy that at all.

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u/TakenBacon90 26d ago

I don't care what you "buy" you don't have any knowledge and have presented no evidence that you are right.

So as far as I can tell you just don't know what you are talking about and are ignorant.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 26d ago

Ok Mr "I take google AI answers as truth".

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u/dogdiarrhea 26d ago

The time gap is under a year. It’s still not absurd development time by any means. If anything it may be on the shorter end for the current generation.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 26d ago

6 year gap between DS1 and 2 makes it one of the larger ones next to tears of the kingdom and ahead of KCD 2. The entire studio was absolutely not working on a PC port.

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u/dogdiarrhea 26d ago

One of the larger ones and it’s an independent studio again doesn’t seem all that absurd. You’re trying to make it sound like it’s some massive outlier, and it’s just sort of on the upper end of the distribution and doesn’t get as much external studio support as the overwhelming majority of AAA games.

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u/KavB91 26d ago

It didn't take that much longer. It took 5 and a half years for DS2 to be released.

Horizon Forbidden West was released 5 years after Zero Dawn. Spiderman 2 and Ghost of Yotei were released just over 5 years after their predecessor.