{"id":89170,"date":"2026-09-10T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89170"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:37:59","slug":"playstation-dropping-physint-has-fans-trying-to-figure-out-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89170","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Dropping Physint Has Fans Trying To Figure Out What Went Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A decade ago,\u00a0at its PlayStation E3 press conference, Sony introduced veteran game designer Hideo Kojima\u00a0in grand fashion to show off the first trailer for Death Stranding. It&#8217;s now 2026, and that partnership appears to have fizzled out, as Kojima&#8217;s Metal Gear Solid spiritual successor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/physint\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"540078\">Physint<\/a>, has found a new home at Xbox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/kojimas-physint-dropped-by-playstation-rescued-by-xbox\/\">after Sony dropped it<\/a>. The Metal Gear Solid creator has also confirmed that he received notice from the company that it intended to cancel Phsyint, leading to several months in which the project was shopped around before Microsoft stepped in to sign a publishing deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s yet another baffling decision made by Sony as it continues to set a new speedrunning record for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/profoundly-disappointed-is-this-companys-response-to-sonys-decision-to-end-disc-support\/\">jettisoning goodwill<\/a>, and naturally, the Internet has a thing or two to say about its divorce from Kojima&#8211;including how his studio, Kojima Productions, is situated directly across the road from Sony. You can&#8217;t make this stuff up!<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/milktst\/status\/2097886264649490701   https:\/\/twitter.com\/philiparola\/status\/2097938828204146875   https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItsRyanHyett\/status\/2097944205138022833   https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:hkkn5gfv3zwfzzeeqj3rssfn\/post\/3mv54aqbwg223   https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:o5v2ehhranox5nubskub6424\/post\/3mv53vuhark23   https:\/\/twitter.com\/FunSpeculation\/status\/2097886852174782611   https:\/\/twitter.com\/slothsaretight3\/status\/2097881425408368750   https:\/\/twitter.com\/realradec\/status\/2097906192198574122   https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVTran\/status\/2097902322257195516   https:\/\/twitter.com\/MasterLeytrx\/status\/2097877698894770267  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Physint is the second game from Kojima Productions to be made in partnership with Xbox&#8211;the first is his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago,\u00a0at its PlayStation E3 press conference, Sony introduced veteran game designer Hideo Kojima\u00a0in grand fashion to show off the first trailer for Death Stranding. It&#8217;s now 2026, and that partnership appears to have fizzled out, as Kojima&#8217;s Metal Gear Solid spiritual successor, Physint, has found a new home at Xbox after Sony dropped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":89172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89170","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\/89170"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89173,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89170\/revisions\/89173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}