Sep 25, 2026 · 58 min · 13 segments
This week, Zak and Aaron are back to talk about Sony walking into a PR landmine... again. This time, they seem to have unexpectedly dumped legendary developer Hideo Kojima and Physint, his spiritual…
But yeah, you know, the death of physical media, them trying to kill discs, their push for live service, which has just resulted in this kind of embarrassing showing, I think.
that a lot of people would agree with that.
And of course, that kind of culminated in many ways with them killing Destiny 2, which was a very unpopular decision by all accounts.
Putting their foot in their mouth.
And, you know, as much fun as that may be for Tarantino, on a corporate level, it's not ideal, I would say.
And to sort of dial in on today's story and give just the slightest bit of background, because even though I generally tend to assume that the majority, the vast majority of our audience... does actually have, like, a baseline knowledge of games and the game industry.
Otherwise, they probably wouldn't have found us.
So the general overview of the story today is...
Longtime legacy video game developer Hideo Kojima, famously the creator of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, which arguably created the stealth genre of video games back during the original PlayStation 1 era.
He has had this wonderful, long collaboration with, well, theoretically wonderful, long collaboration with Sony as a company.
The Metal Gear Solid series, which was, you know, this groundbreaking, you know, forward momentum creating, beautifully realized, wonderfully reviewed series of prestige games going back as far as the PlayStation 1.
Yeah.
Those games remained PlayStation exclusive all the way up through Metal Gear Solid 5, at which point Kojima, now at this point considered to be the genuine auteur director of the video game space, was...
They had a messy divorce, essentially.
And he was... looking to make his own independent studio and found this beautiful big collaboration with his former buddies at playstation to make kojima's studio kojima productions i think uh and publish death stranding and death stranding 2 and in that moment sony was sort of hailed as a hero for rescuing kojima from the the evil people at konami um And more recently, and we can kind of dig into some of the elements of that deal, but this is just the sort of TLDR.
Most recently, Kojima has two games coming out after the Death Stranding 2, which came out, was it last year or the year before? I genuinely can't remember.
I think it was just last year.
I'm not super tuned in, admittedly, with Death Stranding because it's not really my cup of tea, but I believe that Death Stranding 2 came out in 2025.
came out in 2019, right before the pandemic.
Yes, which was weirdly prescient considering some of that game's themes.
But yeah, you know, the death of physical media, them trying to kill discs, their push for live service, which has just resulted in this kind of embarrassing showing, I think.
that a lot of people would agree with that.
And of course, that kind of culminated in many ways with them killing Destiny 2, which was a very unpopular decision by all accounts.
Putting their foot in their mouth.
And, you know, as much fun as that may be for Tarantino, on a corporate level, it's not ideal, I would say.
And to sort of dial in on today's story and give just the slightest bit of background, because even though I generally tend to assume that the majority, the vast majority of our audience... does actually have, like, a baseline knowledge of games and the game industry.
Otherwise, they probably wouldn't have found us.
So the general overview of the story today is...
Longtime legacy video game developer Hideo Kojima, famously the creator of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, which arguably created the stealth genre of video games back during the original PlayStation 1 era.
He has had this wonderful, long collaboration with, well, theoretically wonderful, long collaboration with Sony as a company.
The Metal Gear Solid series, which was, you know, this groundbreaking, you know, forward momentum creating, beautifully realized, wonderfully reviewed series of prestige games going back as far as the PlayStation 1.
Yeah.
Those games remained PlayStation exclusive all the way up through Metal Gear Solid 5, at which point Kojima, now at this point considered to be the genuine auteur director of the video game space, was...
They had a messy divorce, essentially.
And he was... looking to make his own independent studio and found this beautiful big collaboration with his former buddies at playstation to make kojima's studio kojima productions i think uh and publish death stranding and death stranding 2 and in that moment sony was sort of hailed as a hero for rescuing kojima from the the evil people at konami um And more recently, and we can kind of dig into some of the elements of that deal, but this is just the sort of TLDR.
Most recently, Kojima has two games coming out after the Death Stranding 2, which came out, was it last year or the year before? I genuinely can't remember.
I think it was just last year.
I'm not super tuned in, admittedly, with Death Stranding because it's not really my cup of tea, but I believe that Death Stranding 2 came out in 2025.
came out in 2019, right before the pandemic.
Yes, which was weirdly prescient considering some of that game's themes.
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