Sony Reportedly Got Spooked By Hideo Kojima’s Ballooning Budget For ‘PHYSINT’ & Missed Deadlines

Sony ends relationship with Kojima due to budget overruns and missed deadlines for his ambitious new project Death Stranding and its sequel did not meet PlayStation's revenue expectations, further contributing to Sony's decision Xbox sees this as a chance to collaborate with Kojima, betting on his team's ability to create groundbreaking new IP FREDERIC J. BROWN / Hideo KojimaThe video game world is still trying to recover from Sony’s bombshell decision to part ways with Hideo Kojima, giving XBOX a chance to save the day. A New report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier gives us new details on why Sony made that decision. According to Bloomberg’s report, Sony decided to no longer be a part of Kojima’s spiritual successor to Metal Gear, PHYSINT, due to the ambitious project’s budget ballooning, Kojima and his team missing deadlines, and other factors playing into PlayStation effectively telling one of the greatest video game makers of all time, “we good.”In the report shared on September 11, people close to the situation also said Death Stranding and its sequel’s commercial performance played a role in PlayStation’s decision. According to the website, both games did not meet PlayStation’...