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PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima’s ‘Physint’ on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

The only thing that makes sense to me is that Sony must be trying to get out of gaming by sabotaging their gaming wing, aka, Playstation. Why else would they have made so many collosally bad decisions this past year.

Herman Hulst has got to be the absolute worst decision maker I've ever seen Sony put in place. This is the same company that smoothly handed Xbox their asses during the PS4 reveal and now they're absolutely blowing it for the current gen and even the next gen before their PS6 is even a thought.

[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Simple. Xbox has been on a nonstop streak of foot shooting for a few years now. Sony, refusing to be outdone by their competitor, is showing everyone they can shoot their own foot much better

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I was under the impression that the gaming part was the only profitable aspect left.

[–] OrionTheElder@lemmy.world 58 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

They went ahead with Concord and Marathon, but for Kojima they're like, 'Nahhh, mate'. What is going on at Sony?

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 35 points 15 hours ago

Has a bad case of shareholders; it's usually fatal.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago

Concord seems to be one of the reason for this, Sony has started being more hands on about milestones etc and checking how the game is going, and apparently this was missing those milestones.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

The weird one to me is that, if they're going to cancel a Kojima game, they still haven't cancelled Fairgames/Break-In/Project Espresso. One of those two is far more likely to break even.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Death Stranding sold 20 million copies and they ditch the studio over a (probably really arbitrary) deadline? There‘s probably a little more to this but whatever the case Sony can‘t help but shoot itself in the foot.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

That's because this isn't about deadlines or budgets, it's about exclusivity. Sony wouldn't give two fucks about a deadline or a budget if the game was exclusive to PS. Kojima probably told them "No" on the exclusivity and Sony pulled the plug. I think it makes sense but overall yeah, the end result is that Sony keeps shooting themselves in the foot. I don't think their return to exclusivity is going to successful.

[–] 123@programming.dev 10 points 12 hours ago

This is the second large partnership he is part of that ends abruptly, it is possible he is hard to work with and could have an ego or work style that clashes with some others.

Gamers like his stuff, but he does seem to make odd decisions when it comes to celebrities on his projects (from an outsiders perspective).

[–] spip@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And so far Death Stranding 2 has sold... just over 2 million. Perhaps a drop-off that steep had a hand in their willingness to light money on fire.

[–] Guitar@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

That might have contributed, but from what I have seen it basically broke even from it's sales. If they haven't lost money, this descision makes no sense. Kojima is basically Playstation royalty and his name carries so much weight in the industry. Especially since they were championing Physint as his triumphant return to the action espionage genre. I've never played one of his games and even I knew immediately this was a collosal fuck up on their part.

[–] user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz 26 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly interesting that they immediately leaked this info to attempt damage control.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

It wasn't damage control when the size of Concord's loss was leaked to the press.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Like... They should have accounted for that. It's fucking Kojima. Give him all the money and time he fuckin' needs to cook.

[–] afaix@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Right? They should have treated him like those big name directors making avant-garde movies, even if the game takes years to make and doesn’t sell well, you are still bringing prestige to your platform just by having them.

Focusing on live service instead makes them closer to mobile games market, where you have a lot of money but very little respect.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 12 points 12 hours ago

They need that money for datacenters.

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Physint" kinda sounds like their whole strategy right now

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sony is definitely int'ing right now

[–] lath@piefed.social 6 points 13 hours ago

Physn't

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

In video form if you prefer one-take Schreier: https://youtu.be/aOWwGl6d0Iw