It sounds like Hideo Kojima was demanding a significant sum of money from Sony to make the stealth action game Physint – despite him retaining ownership of its IP and intending to release it on multiple platforms.
PlayStation announced earlier this month that it had pulled out of the project, which was first announced in 2024.
Xbox has since picked up the game, which will star Bill Skarsgard in its lead role. Development is still early, with Kojima unsure on which engine to use now that Guerrilla’s proprietary Decima appears to be out of the equation.
The game has since been picked up by Xbox, which was seen as a big PR win among gamers.
But reporting from Bloomberg’s reliable Jason Schreier suggested Sony was concerned about the project’s progress, its cost, and Kojima’s reluctance to commit to exclusivity under the circumstances.
Schreier also said that key PlayStation executives who signed the original deal, like Jim Ryan, have since retired.
Kojima Productions pushed back on these claims in a statement last week, encouraging fans to approach them with a “dose of scepticism”.
In a new video, Schreier says that negotiations between Sony and the Japanese studio had been taking place for months, with a focus on the “future of the project, about the budget of the project, about the timeline, about extensions, about exclusivity, and ultimately it didn’t lead to a satisfying result”.
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