Exactly why would Sony of all people cancel a Kojima game. No matter the leadership he’s stayed close to Sony so if they did that something is wrong. I agree the leadership at Sony sucks but so does all corporations
I know Kojima has a cult like fanbase and his influence on the industry can't be understated but Kojima doesn't have the same sway like he used to.
He is known for going over budget in an industry that's already struggling with ballooning costs in the AAA space. Publishers are becoming more risk averse as a result of this
Don't forget as well that Death Stranding 2 barely broke even.
Also the console market is no longer a growth market and is a mature market which plays into why Sony has pivoted so hard and are reevaluating things.
I don't agree with a lot of Sony's decisions as of late but I think it's important to understand why they did this.
RECAP on Sony’s downfall: Sony PlayStation’s terrible leadership under Totoki, Jim Ryan, Hermen Hulst and Nishino run the company’s reputation to the ground and lost all good-will from players🚀
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📦Cancelled Kojima’s PHYSINT abruptly
💰Raising console pricing
💿Trying to end physical game discs
🖥️Ended PC ports for single player
🛍️Closing PS3/Vita stores
🕹️Ending second hand market
🌕Stopped support for Destiny
🎮Destroying game ownership
🎞️Removing 500 movies w/o refund
😱7 studios acquired since 2020
😡5 already shut down
⚡️Paid $4.7B to Bungie for nothing
Details:
❌Cancelled Hideo Kojima’s PHYSINT, an action espionage game, mid June 2026, and the pretended the decision was amicable, while Kojima himself said it was unexpected, leading him to move it to XBOX
❌Acquired Bluepoint in 2021 and failed to let them produce a single game since the acquisition, only to shut them down in 2026
❌Acquired Haven in 2022 and hasn’t provided any meaningful updates on Fairgame$
❌Acquired Firewalk Studios in 2023 and ended up with Concord aka. the greatest disaster in gaming and shut down the studio in 2024
❌Acquired Bungie for $3.6B ($4.7B in total) in 2023, which only led to layoffs and delaying Marathon due to plagiarism and a disappointing first reveal
❌Ended support for Destiny and downscaled Bungie with tons of layoffs
❌Shutdown London Studio in 2024 am cancelled their yet to be revealed live service game
❌Shut down Neon Koi
❌Shut down Dark Outlaw as of March 2026, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier
In addition,
🗑️The Last of Us Online
🗑️Spider-Man: The Great Web Multiplayer
🗑️Bend Studio’s live service game
🗑️Bluepoint’ God of War live service
🗑️Jim Ryan had 12 live service games planned to be out by 2026, only Helldivers II was released and succeeded, the rest were all either cancelled before release or shut down shortly after like Concord
They ruined this entire generation and the hard work of thousands of talented people for nothing.
They betrayed the legendary Kojima and cancelled PHYSINT, which was basically Metal Gear Solid’s spiritual successor
They shifted their failure onto talented studios for the egocentrism of the clueless execs.
And now they want to transfer that failure to players by:
✅Ending disc production
✅Creating a monopoly
✅Raising prices
✅Ending second hand market/trading
📀Reports from Digital Foundry’s John Linneman and others stated that there’s resentment for Sony from the industry and various studios and publishers who spoke to him.
👉Their CEOs/Execs must be fired
👉Sony must be reformed
They have lost all good will and run their reputation to the ground
NO KOJIMA 🫡 NO BUY
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
PlayStation's Biggest Decisions Over The Last Few Years:
• Started Developing Live Service Games & Forced In House PlayStation Studios To Develop Them
• Closed PixelOpus
• Closed London Studio
• Cancelled The Last Of Us Part II Multiplayer, Wasted Years Of Development Time, Resources, And Money, Resulting In No New Naughty Dog Game For The Last 6 Years
• Cancelled Deviation Games Multiplayer Project
• Increased PlayStation Plus Subscription Prices With No New Benefits Added
• Cancelled Concord After 2 Weeks Of Game Release
• Acquired & Then Closed Firewalk Studios
• Announced Fairgame$ In 2023, Still No Update In 2026
• Cancelled Dark Outlaw Games Project
• Acquired Bungie For Over $3.6 Billion, A Highly Unsuccessful Acquisition
• Increased PS5 Console Prices Multiple Times
• Closed Bluepoint Games & Still Hasn't Officially Announced It
• Discontinued Physical Games In 2028
• Cancelled Physint With Kojima Productions
• No PlayStation Showcase Since 2023
• Ported Multiple SinglePlayer Games To PC, A Largely Unsuccessful Strategy
• Media Molecule's Last Game: Dreams 2020 – 6 Years Ago
• Bend Studio's Last Game: Days Gone 2019 – 7 Years Ago
PlayStation in 2026:
- End Destiny
- End physical gaming forever
- End porting exclusives to PC
- Completely lose Hideo Kojima
- Attempt to cancel Kojima's next Metal Gear franchise
- Kojima cuts ties entirely and goes to XBOX
- Force your single-player studios to make live service games
- Concord happens
- Proceed to cancel most of them, losing years of development time and billions of dollars
- Buy Bluepoint and have them make a live-service rather than remakes
- Close Bluepoint down before they release any games
- Start selling vertical stands separately rather than have them come with the console
- Console prices at an all-time high
Genuinely... what is going on at Sony. disaster after disaster, huge L after L. They were my favorite gaming company throughout the PS4 generation but genuinely, how do you lose EVERYONE this fast? Meanwhile, XBOX is taking full advantage of this and priming a major comeback next generation. A literal generational fumble happening at Sony.
Something of this kind is what we should have seen when the top section of the towers collapsed onto the lower one. The upper and lower sections should have mutually destroyed each other until all the energy is dissipated and the system comes to rest. What could not have happened is this:
a little tiny chunk of the building can't possibly fall and crush the entire structure below it.
This is such a simple, fundamental concept that architects and engineers were astonished in seeing it totally ignored by NIST.
This is high school physics, and our whole society is being led to believe that these fundamental laws of physics, hard science, don't apply anymore.
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