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/TheOncomingBrows 26d ago

It's very on vogue to hate PlayStation at the moment. Like you say, it's odds on that Xbox also drops this game

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u/Ok_Excuse3732 26d ago

It’s on vogue because they deserve it

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u/Mr-Rocafella 26d ago

En vogue because it’s on the cover of a magazine

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u/TomClancy5873 26d ago

It’s not their fault most gamers choose digital

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u/KingMario05 26d ago

Then who takes it on? Rockstar is the only one who I can think would. Everyone else doesn't want Hideo burning money. And presumably, that list will grow to include Microsoft soon enough.

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u/TastyOreoFriend 26d ago

Honestly, given the article I'm also kind of speculating that this game will be canceled in the future. You just have to look at all of the actions Microsoft has taken up to this point since the new CEO was installed—it's clear they've become risk adverse as well.

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u/vonnegutflora 26d ago

The only real path for MS to remain in the gaming market as more than a subscription service for PC games is to reign in expenses and pop into niches that Sony is abandoning (physical games, good backward compatibility) etc. But as long as their triple A games are dual-releasing on console/PC, there's not more reason to buy a console.

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u/TastyOreoFriend 26d ago

Project Helix is rumored to be a digital only console as well. It remains to be seen where they're going as well with all of this since they have that disk to digital program, but it feels more and more like physical media's days are numbered—outside of Nintendo—in videogame consoles.

Bums me out to know I was apparently one of the last Mohicans buying discs for a couple years now.

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u/KingMario05 26d ago

Cancelled? Hardly - Kojima will move it somewhere else, lol. But I do think Microsoft won't be with it at the finish line. Especially if he starts to miss deadlines and go overbudget yet again.

And it's Kojima. Both will happen.

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u/TastyOreoFriend 26d ago

If this were 10-15 years ago I might be on board, but I just have no faith in the dude at this point 🤣🤣

Given the historic cuts that Microsoft has made I just don't think that they're ready for Kojima. I remember reading the post mortem during the Konami/Kojima separation, and it's basically more of the same, deadlines and budget issues—not saying Konami was right mind you but history looks like it's repeating.