The only thing that makes sense to me is that Sony must be trying to get out of gaming by sabotaging their gaming wing, aka, Playstation. Why else would they have made so many collosally bad decisions this past year.
Herman Hulst has got to be the absolute worst decision maker I’ve ever seen Sony put in place. This is the same company that smoothly handed Xbox their asses during the PS4 reveal and now they’re absolutely blowing it for the current gen and even the next gen before their PS6 is even a thought.
Death Stranding sold 20 million copies and they ditch the studio over a (probably really arbitrary) deadline? There‘s probably a little more to this but whatever the case Sony can‘t help but shoot itself in the foot.
And so far Death Stranding 2 has sold… just over 2 million. Perhaps a drop-off that steep had a hand in their willingness to light money on fire.
That might have contributed, but from what I have seen it basically broke even from it’s sales. If they haven’t lost money, this descision makes no sense. Kojima is basically Playstation royalty and his name carries so much weight in the industry. Especially since they were championing Physint as his triumphant return to the action espionage genre. I’ve never played one of his games and even I knew immediately this was a collosal fuck up on their part.
This is the second large partnership he is part of that ends abruptly, it is possible he is hard to work with and could have an ego or work style that clashes with some others.
Gamers like his stuff, but he does seem to make odd decisions when it comes to celebrities on his projects (from an outsiders perspective).
Mostly interesting that they immediately leaked this info to attempt damage control.
“Physint” kinda sounds like their whole strategy right now
Sony is definitely int’ing right now
Physn’t
They went ahead with Concord and Marathon, but for Kojima they’re like, ‘Nahhh, mate’. What is going on at Sony?
The weird one to me is that, if they’re going to cancel a Kojima game, they still haven’t cancelled Fairgames/Break-In/Project Espresso. One of those two is far more likely to break even.
Concord seems to be one of the reason for this, Sony has started being more hands on about milestones etc and checking how the game is going, and apparently this was missing those milestones.
Has a bad case of shareholders; it’s usually fatal.
Like… They should have accounted for that. It’s fucking Kojima. Give him all the money and time he fuckin’ needs to cook.
They need that money for datacenters.
In video form if you prefer one-take Schreier: https://youtu.be/aOWwGl6d0Iw
