author: Adrian Piotrowski
Rumor: Microsoft Negotiates Right to Publish Kojima's Next Game
VentureBeat reports that we may soon witness a surprising transfer and Kojima Productions' latest game will be released on Microsoft's consoles.
Over a month ago, false information that Microsoft was planning to buy Kojima Productions made rounds on the Internet, all because Xbox chief Phil Spencer had a figurine of the Japanese creator's company mascot on his shelf. It turns out that even in such an absurd story can hide a grain of truth, because according to VentureBeat the Redmond giant is negotiating with Kojima about the release of his latest game.
The article was written to correct and deny certain rumors. On Wednesday, a trailer for Abandoned, a game created by the Dutch studio Blue Box Game, was released. The title will be an open-world FPP horror game available exclusively on PlayStation 5. It was speculated that this is a similar ploy to P.T./Silent Hills (in the opening credits, Kojima Productions was hiding under the fake name 7780s Studio), but the developers denied that they are in any way connected with Hideo Kojima . VentureBeat's report would confirmed this information, while adding the news of Microsoft-Kojima Productions talks.
The creators of Death Stranding are definitely working on a new title and this has been known since last October. It's hard to say what exactly the iconic director is preparing for the players. It's possible that itwill simply be a sequel to Sam Porter's story, which may be indicated by Kojima's tweet from June and a statement by Norman Reedus, who played the role of the game's protagonist. However, the Japanese developer has repeatedly stressed that he has plans to create another horror game to revolutionize the genre.