{"id":89154,"date":"2026-09-10T03:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89154"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:39:14","slug":"kojimas-physint-dropped-by-playstation-rescued-by-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89154","title":{"rendered":"Kojima\u2019s Physint Dropped By PlayStation, Rescued By Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sony has revealed today that it will no longer be working with Kojima Productions on stealth action game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/physint\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"540078\">Physint<\/a>, while Kojima announced that Xbox has stepped up to rescue the project. The change in publishers means both of Kojima&#8217;s upcoming projects are now being made in partnership with Xbox, a departure from his long history of developing games for the PlayStation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PlayStation&#8217;s official statement didn&#8217;t say why it chose to end its support of Physint, leaving gamers to speculate on the reasons behind its shock exit. &#8220;We continue to have great admiration for Hideo Kojima&#8217;s vision for the game,&#8221; Sony said, adding, &#8220;we look forward to continued close collaboration with Hideo Kojima and his award-winning independent studio in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStation\/status\/2097875212427735146  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kojima posted from his personal account with more details, saying that PlayStation cancelled Physint as of mid-June this year, and the new collaboration with Xbox came as a result of the studio&#8217;s determination to keep the project alive.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/2097877506401681753  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re\u00a0honored that Kojima-san\u00a0has chosen Xbox to work with Kojima Productions on\u00a0Physint,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/09\/09\/xbox-and-kojima-productions-expand-partnership-to-publish-physint\/\">Xbox CEO Asha Sharma<\/a> in a statement. &#8220;His ambition to challenge conventions reflects the kind of creativity we want to support at Xbox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has revealed today that it will no longer be working with Kojima Productions on stealth action game Physint, while Kojima announced that Xbox has stepped up to rescue the project. The change in publishers means both of Kojima&#8217;s upcoming projects are now being made in partnership with Xbox, a departure from his long history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":89156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89157,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89154\/revisions\/89157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}