Grubb: Kojima in talks with Microsoft to publish his next game

[Cerysnetics (Cerys)]

@TavishHill

I’d need to see what it is. Liked his early MGS games and loved his work on Castlevania (surprisingly) on 360, and Silent Hills looked neat. But Death Stranding looked garbage trash to me. If this is the rumored cloud-powered horror anthology it could sway me though.

You beast! hehehe.

Apart from the story, the mysogyny, the lack of nuance and cameos from industry “chums” I found Death Stranding amazing

Its more like Elite or Truck simulator than anything else to me, a gorgeous world with a great soundtrack and for me a fun loop of planning, journeying and cashing in. I would love a sequel or something similar

Behold my shame!

[andrew_schmidt (HaloGaming08)]

@CallMeCraig

If the rumor with Google was true, this makes sense. After Stadia imploded you would look to the next big cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, certainly not Sony.

hahaha, thats good

[KiryutheD (KiryutheDragon)]

Man the internet is going to explode if Phil Spencer has a Sega related collectible in the background of his next interview lol

[Cerysnetics (Cerys)]

@KiryutheD

Man the internet is going to explode if Phil Spencer has a Sega related collectible in the background of his next interview lol

Or a dreamcast!

[thiagosilva (thiagoツ)]

I really want this to happen. it would be huge for the Xbox.

The “god” Kojima making an Xbox exclusive… just this rumor, people are already going crazy…

[Opatschi]

Never played a Kojima game

[replicant]

@Opatschi

Never played a Kojima game

Whaaaat? /gives the evil eye.

[saintsflow20]

I actually played pretty much all of his titles including the lesser known ones like Snatcher and Policenauts (I actually just played that one last summer, on a Sega Saturn with a CRT and the light gun. It was an awesome experience.), But I actually haven’t touched Death Stranding. Maybe if it came to PC Game Pass (I think it’s possible as 505 Games published the PC port, not Sony), but otherwise I don’t think I will.

[Anthony2690 (Anthony)]

Whilst I believe Kojima is the most over rated person in gaming and not the messiah that many believe him to be.

I’m curious as to what this will be.

[CryOn]

@Opatschi

Never played a Kojima game

MGS 2+3 and MGS 5 are on sale atm.

[Opatschi]

@CryOn

MGS 2+3 and MGS 5 are on sale atm.

nahh I rather continue my grind in Outriders

[PETE1985 (Peter)]

I must confess, I have never property played a Kojima game. I tried getting into MGS 5 a couple of times but it didn’t resonate with me.

That being said, I know that in terms of optics this would be a very big deal for MS and a lot of people do really enjoy his games.

[nofriendo (Dave)]

Hi Phil, I am guessing you read these forums. Please take that money and spend it literally anywhere else.

thanks

[Voodoopeople]

This is a real marketing coup if true.

For those less interested in Kojima. Think of this deal like how MLB is for those of us not interested in baseball.

• Catering for an underserved segment of the market
• Snatching something Sony have up to now used for positive PR
• Positioning MS well with the Japanese market
• Hype

For all these reasons this would be one hell of a deal.

[LucasTaves]

@TavishHill

I think it’s just using the graphics engine + whatever tech they used for the seasons/weather I’d bet. The vast majority of ForzaTech’s unique code base is in physics handling for gameplay that they’d have no use for outside a racing game. Playground would wanna keep using it for ease of use as they move FH team members over to Fable after FH5.

I’m betting MS isn’t gonna keep the IP to whatever comes of this, so if it isn’t Silent Hill and is instead something new, Kojima’s team would retain IP rights. That makes me think they’d use a more portable engine solution since they wouldn’t want to get a sequel and take it multiplat and still rely on an XGS-owned engine.

Forza Tech do have an excellent streaming/lod solution that was improved a lot over this gen. The density and fidelity increase coming from FH2 to FH4 is nothing short of incredible and is able to pull that data even in incredible high traversal speeds.

Not sure how hard it would be to port that to Unreal though, could also be a lot easier than to port the insane amount of tools UE4 has to Forza Tech.

[PETE1985 (Peter)]

@Voodoopeople

This is a real marketing coup if true.

For those less interested in Kojima. Think of this deal like how MLB is for those of us not interested in baseball.

• Catering for an underserved segment of the market
• Snatching something Sony have up to now used for positive PR
• Positioning MS well with the Japanese market
• Hype

For all these reasons this would be one hell of a deal.

Agree with this. In addition, referring to your comment on MLB, if a Kojima game went into Gamepass it will give people the opportunity to discover without the upfront cost of £60.

I reference MLB because I for one, living in the UK, have very little knowledge or interest in baseball. However, I will definately give this a go through Gamepass and I may end up loving it. Same could be true for many other gamers and also would apply to Kojima games.

This is great for players who can discover new experiences with minimal risk and great for the Dev for the same reason.

[Jeans]

@Opatschi

Never played a Kojima game

[Voodoopeople]

@PETE1985

Agree with this. In addition, referring to your comment on MLB, if a Kojima game went into Gamepass it will give people the opportunity to discover without the upfront cost of £60.

I reference MLB because I for one, living in the UK, have very little knowledge or interest in baseball. However, I will definately give this a go through Gamepass and I may end up loving it. Same could be true for many other gamers and also would apply to Kojima games.

This is great for players who can discover new experiences with minimal risk and great for the Dev for the same reason.

I’ll try MLB as well.

I used to like Madden as a kid, but that was in the 90s on my Amiga. It was still pretty arcadey. it’s far too sim now.

[CallMeCraig]

Kojima probably saw how Xbox preserves his legacy and liked it, nothing too surprising.

[Cerysnetics (Cerys)]

@PETE1985

Agree with this. In addition, referring to your comment on MLB, if a Kojima game went into Gamepass it will give people the opportunity to discover without the upfront cost of £60.

I reference MLB because I for one, living in the UK, **have very little knowledge or interest in baseball.** However, I will definately give this a go through Gamepass and I may end up loving it. Same could be true for many other gamers and also would apply to Kojima games.

This is great for players who can discover new experiences with minimal risk and great for the Dev for the same reason.

I mean, its just rounders but longer isnt it?