Hideo Kojima

Nick has beaten Wolverine.

Huge news about Hideo Kojima's next game, jumping ship from PlayStation to Xbox, and we had two Nintendo Directs this week, new Metroid, new Kirby, so much more.

But first...

Oh, God

At a PlayStation state of play, Herman Holst-

Mm-hmm

... shook hands with Hideo Kojima.

There it is.

And I was like, "What? What did, what did they do?"

They a- announced that they were backing away from their, uh, decision to, uh, fund, uh, an upcoming game from Kojima Productions, uh, called, uh, Physint.

I assume, like, physical intelligence, uh, is sort of, like, what the name was.

They never, like, said the name in the YouTube video announcing it-

Yes.

Physint.

But also it's funny because I'm not sure that's a real thing, but it's a Kojima, like, I think it's a real thing.

There's signals intelligence, SIGINT-

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

... you know, you know, PlayStation being like, "Uh, Ko- Kojima, get out of here" after being like, "Kojima, get over here," like just two years ago, so yeah.

Uh, but you know, we, we have updates on some of that stuff, and we'll get into it for sure.

But yeah, you're right.

Bang, bang.

And then, yeah, right? Bang, bang, everybody, and then we'll see what happens next.

Uh, meanwhile, over at PlayStation, uh, we got a little insight into why PlayStation canceled Hideo Kojima's Physint.

Um, and it's basically what we were speculating when we talked about this yesterday, everybody.

But it's still...

It's, it is a big story, and that is Hideo Kojima, one of the absolute biggest names in, in all of gaming, one of...

A, a revered, legendary designer who's been, for the most part, pretty closely affiliated, if not actually exclusive, with Sony for a very long time.

We've gotten some Xbox stuff from, from them, but usually, like, after the fact, um, going all the way back to, like, Metal Gear Solid Subsistence.

[laughs] What did you think when you saw this?

I immediately thought of the meme, uh, "Friendship ended, uh, with PlayStation.

Xbox is now my best friend." [laughs] That is wild because, you know, a- as you mentioned, Hideo Kojima had been synonymous with PlayStation, even though he's put out stuff on other platforms of course.

It was either, like, timed exclusives or, like with Death Stranding, one and two, also timed exclusives that were put out on Sony's platforms first and kind of optimized for those.

Oh, I don't know.

Shall we talk about Kojima? And to kick things off, we've got an email from Cal, who says, "Hi, IGN UK crew.

Hope you are all well.

Not a long one.

I would just love to hear everyone's thoughts on Sony's recent decision to stop production of physical games and their parting with Kojima.

Just a couple of small topics-"

Great

... just to kick off then.

Let's get into it, 'cause there's lots and lots of news.

Story number one Hideo Kojima's Physint has jumped from PlayStation to Xbox after Kojima says Sony tried to cancel it.

Kojima Productions and Sony Interactive Entertainment first announced Physint, which is described as a, quote, "brand-new original IP" and a, quote, "next-generation action espionage game" back in 2024.

In a statement up- posted on X, Kojima said that Sony had told him it was canceling the game three months ago, and he has been since trying to find a new partner to work with in order to keep it alive.

Quote, "As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the Physint project.

Physint is an important project both to me personally and to Kojima Productions.

Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner.

In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in Xbox a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again.

Not in a bad spot.

Yeah, they're really getting hammered right now with the Kojima situation, killing off physical discs backlash, them saying that, oh, consumers should just know that they don't actually own the games they're purchasing.

All of the games they've spent billions of dollars on in studios, they've spent billions of dollars on that have gone nowhere.

Like, the concords and the marathons and now the fair games, but I don't see them going back on this decision unless their competition, like an Xbox really, really, you know, starts getting ahead of them and they see, well, physical is a really big part of their, um, you know, future right now, part of their plans, but it's not like they made that decision, uh, one random Tuesday when they woke up and they're like, we're going to kill physical media.

Lots and lots of video games.

And Vera, I'm very glad that you're here to discuss these video games.

Yesterday, we saw the news that there was a big breakup in the video game world between Hideo Kojima and Sony and PlayStation.

And there was big news because Xbox swooped in and said, hey, we'll take that.

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Hideo Kojima's Fizznt has jumped from PlayStation to Xbox after Kojima says Sony tried to cancel it.

Kojima Productions and Sony Interactive Entertainment first announced Fizznt, which is described as a quote, brand new original IP and a quote, next generation action espionage game back in 2024.

In a statement posted on X, Kojima said that Sony had told him it was canceling the game three months ago and he has been since trying to find a new partner to work with in order to keep it alive, quote.

As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the Pheasant project.

Pheasant is an important project both to me personally and to Kojima Productions.

Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner.

In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found an xbox a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future and we have decided to team up with them once again please rest assured the development of pheasant our genre defining action espionage title is ongoing and will continue to move forward playstation also posted its own version of events on x confirming it made the quote difficult decision to move away from the project An update from PlayStation Studios.

I didn't know this.

For those who don't know what Fizint is, this is an upcoming Hideo Kojima game from Kojima Productions.

This is looking to be a spiritual successor to Metal Gear.

And it's been said it's like something very close to Hideo Kojima's heart and stuff.

He really believes in this.

A tweet from PlayStation went out yesterday saying, An update from PlayStation Studios.

After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to step away from collaborating with Kojima Productions.

I think this is crazy, since like... playstation is kind of the metal gear platform i know it's it's gone multi-platform in the most the recent releases but for the most part it was a playstation platform and you're getting a spirit you're getting a spiritual successor to that and you're like no it's a fine as such xbox has stepped in and expanded their partnership with kojima productions remember they're doing od and now they are publishing fizzant