Anecdotally, whenever we see a Sony face behind every first-party project, it's 99% of the time Shu Yoshida.
Which makes sense. He's president of first-party. His very job is portfolio management of first party investment. It doesn't matter if it's a Naughty Dog game or an XDev game.
But with Death Stranding/Kojima... Sony's face, the ones Kojima has meetings with... is Andrew House himself.
There is definitely the impression that this is a deal that is above even Shu's management of authority.
Looks like Shinji Hirano is coming to!Two interesting little pieces about Kojima on BBC News this morning - short video included (not Death Stranding specific - just didn't think it deserved its own thread).
Hideo Kojima says games and films will merge together
Touring Tokyo with Kojima
Kojima should try pitching high quality licensed game to his film director friend. Imagine high budget AAA Pacific Rim games or Mad Max games.
That'd be a dream come true. But for now, just concentrate on Death Stranding.
Looks like Shinji Hirano is coming to!
According to Kojima he was very inspired to set up the studio like Media Molecule, where it felt more like a club and a homey feel rather than most traditional studios.
where it felt more like a club and a homey feel rather than most traditional studios.
Damn, that's a cool image, and the working conditions sound good as well.
It looks like an exclamation mark above its head.
His face seems to be a nervous "Holy Shit, how am I going to explain these expenses to Kaz?" .
And in movies and alcohol (For those not in the know Kojima drinks A LOT of alcohol)
Frankly it feels like Sony is giving Kojima anything he wants
Kojima: Alright, so.. I'm gonna need about $50 million
Sony: That's not as bad as we thought! There you go bud
Kojima: ..To set up the studio
Sony: *Hello. You have reached Guerrilla Cambridge, please hold.*
Kojima: Alright, so.. I'm gonna need about $50 million
Sony: That's not as bad as we thought! There you go bud
Kojima: ..To set up the studio
Sony: *Hello. You have reached Guerrilla Cambridge, please hold.*
Maybe it is exclusive now?+1
Blowing this much cash on a 3rd-party studio, while closing down your own 1st-party studios (evolution and guerrilla Cambridge), is so absurd. Assuming Sony is footing the bill for all this, of course.
The game ain't even exclusive, which makes it even harder to rationalize the resources being pumped into KP.
Just a lot of people assuming thingsDid I miss any evidence out there about Sony funding the formation of his studio?
Its a Console exclusive.The game ain't even exclusive, which makes it even harder to rationalize the resources being pumped into KP.
A general relativity metric and Maxwell's equations. I like that.
Wow, my favorite quotation is even scrawled on their board. I AM EXCITE!
RagnarRox - The Story of Death Stranding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCQvFPll-oQ&t=855s
[14:15]...someone on Reddit found this VERY high resolution image on the servers of the Kojima Productions homepage that provides a much clearer picture of the engravings... two of them have scientific equations etched into them. The first equation describes the so-called Schwartzchild Radius... the other dog tag shows the so-called Dirac Equation, a breakthrough in particle physics by the British physicist Paul Dirac...[16:20]... what we can, and I think should, do is focus on what these topics add to the interpretation... I'm fairly convinced these equations bear a more metaphoric implication for the overall themes. Becuase what commonalities do these two equations share? What's their greatest common denominator? It's Relativity. Before Dirac, there had already been equations describing particles in quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger Equation for example. The achievement that Dirac brought to the table was that he was the first to take Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity into account... [17:03] ...His conclusions were an immediate result of Einstein's riveting discovery, whereas the Schwartzchild solution was directly based on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity... [20:32] ...the idea that... you are [in Blake's words] able to see a ‘heaven in a wild flower', you are... holding eternity in an hour... Blake's poem leads this premise that... to the conclusion that...
yeah, I believe Sony is publishing. Wonder if one day all of Sony's games will be PS/PC? Interesting...I'm not sure it really devalues consoles like it once did to have a lot of the platform's exclusives shared with the PC world.some of you are acting as if Kojima is the big winner of this deal while there isn't much in for Sony
This is obviously a long term partnership and investment. Maybe the first Game won't make much money due the high investment, but the second or the third one could very well do.
This is a investment in the next systemseller Franchise (and if we consider that Sony is taking a big risks with Studios like GG or Sony Bend, then this Kojima Partnership doesn't seem as such huge deal)
Also afaik Sony own the Death Stranding IP (they are funding the game, giving the Engine and the trailers are starting with -> Sony Interactive Entertainment Presents)
so even if the game comes out on PC, Sony is profiting from it aswell
yeah, I believe Sony is publishing. Wonder if one day all of Sony's games will be PS/PC? Interesting...I'm not sure it really devalues consoles like it once did to have a lot of the platform's exclusives shared with the PC world.
Really, I look at it like PC = Android/Linux and Sony/MS/Nintendo are each different flavors of Apple where they control everything. Perhaps it may be smart to play both sides, MS seem to be inching that way.
+1
Blowing this much cash on a 3rd-party studio, while closing down your own 1st-party studios (evolution and guerrilla Cambridge), is so absurd. Assuming Sony is footing the bill for all this, of course.
The game ain't even exclusive, which makes it even harder to rationalize the resources being pumped into KP.
They haven't even started making the game yet, have they?
Something tells me that this will be a cross platform with the PS5.
I winced at the "Konami Productions" watermark in the first imageTwo interesting little pieces about Kojima on BBC News this morning - short video included (not Death Stranding specific - just didn't think it deserved its own thread).
Hideo Kojima says games and films will merge together
Touring Tokyo with Kojima
+1
Blowing this much cash on a 3rd-party studio, while closing down your own 1st-party studios (evolution and guerrilla Cambridge), is so absurd. Assuming Sony is footing the bill for all this, of course.
The game ain't even exclusive, which makes it even harder to rationalize the resources being pumped into KP.