Hideo Kojima puts the development of several of his games on standby

The year 2025 should be the year of Deaht Stranding 2 and obviously, Hideo Kojima and his studio Kojima Productions are starting to prepare the release of his next title as they should. At the same time, the studio is forced to put on stand-by several projects for an indefinite period including the Xbox exclusivity as well as the spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid.

Kojima Productions supports the Cinema and Television Actors Union

Kojima Productions is the independent studio from producer Hideo Kojima who has made a real name for himself in the video game industry for more than 20 years with the creation, in particular, of the series Metal Gear Solid at the end of the 90s. After a rather stormy breakup with Konami, the publisher of Metal GearKojima founded his own studio, already ten years ago of this, in 2015.

Since then, the projects have continued. After Death Stranding (in 2019), Kojima announced a project exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem with OFas well as Physinta game that should be the successor to Metal Gear Solid. In addition to this, we should have the right to Death Stranding 2 : On the Beach from next year. A busy schedule.

So that’s a lot of projects for an independent studio and obviously, it’s quite tricky to put everything together, especially when external elements disrupt production. This is the case of Union of Cinema and Television Actors (SAG-AFTRA) which launched a strike several months ago to defend their work and the limits of the emergence of AI in video games.

An initiative that is supported by almost the entire video game industry. And this is precisely why the filming ofOF and of Physint had to be put on standby. Indeed, these two titles are currently at the recording and digitization phase facial and body models. Thus, noting that SAG-AFTRA has not reached an agreement with the large companies in the sector, Kojima Productions has decided to suspend the development of its games.

It was Kojima himself who announced it on social networks, specifying that the projects were at a standstill since this summer. The goal is to resume production of both games next year. Concerning Death Stranding 2no problem on this side since the whole part concerning the recording and digitization of the actors is already finished. The game is in final stages of developmentstill scheduled for release in 2025.