'Metal Gear' creator moves to Xbox after Playstation cancellation

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Legendary Japanese video game creator Hideo Kojima said Thursday he had partnered with Microsoft's Xbox for his next project after its development for the PlayStation console was cancelled by Sony.

Kojima, whose pioneering "Metal Gear" spy soldier franchise was a key element of the PlayStation's success since the 1990s, has been working on a new project, "Physint".

However, "in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the Physint project", the 63-year-old posted on X.

Kojima's post-apocalyptic "Death Stranding 2" was considered a top contender at last year's Game Awards in Los Angeles, and "Physint" has been billed as a return to his spy-game roots.

"Development of Physint, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward," Kojima said.
 
Kojima moving is for various reasons, firstly he doesn't own the rights to MGS, Konami does, and he never wants to be in that situation again. With Sony moving to disc less games, I believe he'd have to allow them the rights to produce the game, for those reasons, he's moved to MS, as they're going to be producing disc versions of games.

I saw the reveal with him and the MS execs, if we can get some more capcom stuff on Xbox, then this will be a win win situation imo
 
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