Microsoft is trying to lock Kojima up to be XboX exclusive

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Credit to @The Mad Titan

Haven't been a kojima fan in awhile so not gonna make a thread about it but....

Kojima Productions is making a new game, but it is not Abandoned for PlayStation 5. Earlier today, Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed a trailer for Abandoned, which is a horror project from developer Blue Box Games. But that trailer, and the developer’s spotty history, are just odd enough to cause some people to speculate that Abandoned is secretly the next game from Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima. That is not the case.
One of the reasons people believe Abandoned is from Kojima is because it’s difficult to find a lot of information about Blue Box Games. But that isn’t because it is a shell corporation for Kojima Productions. Instead, Blue Box is simply a small studio that has never released a major console game before.
Blue Box’s website is dead. It has a game in Early Access on Steam that it has stopped updating. And it has yet another similar game that it attempted to launch on Steam’s now-defunct Greenlight program.
I get it, though. Maybe Kojima was playing the long-con. And it was him behind this studio all along. He was simply waiting for the moment to strike, and that time has come.

But the biggest piece of evidence I have that Abandoned is not a Kojima joint is that Kojima is in talks with Microsoft about publishing his next game, according to a source familiar with the matter. And yes, that statue on Phil Spencer’s shelf was referencing a potential deal with the legendary developer. I cannot confirm if Xbox closed the deal yet, but my understanding is that Kojima is the focus of a Microsoft plan to leverage Japanese talent.
So you’ll have to enjoy Abandoned absent Kojima’s marketing stunts.

Abandoned for PS5 is not a secret Hideo Kojima game

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Oh boy

 

[-DMP-]

In b4 everyone (that didn’t play the game) says death stranding was trash and this doesn’t matter.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Inb4 xbots claim they always loved death stranding and what a win this is’

Also, Jeff Grubb has gone full shill and I don’t believe anything he says at this point. Same guy that said xbox live gold was going free only to have microsoft actually try and double the price two months later.

 

[Kingshango]

Death Stranding 2 except every mission is a underwater escort mission.

 

[ORDER_66]

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Imagine if Xbox gets Kojima to make that damn P.T...

 

[Champion]

So we went from Silent Hills rumors to Japan Studio being gutted and Kojima making an Xbox exclusive?

 

[King Kai]

This is just disrespectful

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

One of resetera's top "insiders" saying he heard the same

Venturebeat: Abandoned for PS5 is not a secret Hideo Kojima game. Kojima is in talks with Microsoft about publishing his next game as per source

 

[Captain Crunch]

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

 

[Captain Crunch]

I never cared for Death Stranding or Kojima, but this changes if a new game from his enters game pass.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Big bank take lil bank

 

[MarcP]

Phil applyin pressure all generation