Death Stranding has been quietly released for Xbox Series X|S.

Thirty7ven

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Let me guess the pysint game is full exclusive or multiplat & uses decima? If that’s the case why give Kojima the decima engine + all the bonus if the game is multiplat, he’ll at this point I can see death stranding 2 be day n date on PC & pysint fully multiplat.

What a clown show

Timed exclusive maybe, lol.
 
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CrackmanNL

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What?

DS was never Jimbo deal lol
Jimbo took role in 2019.
You reading the comment wrong. It was his deal referred to your comment of House.
Could'v worded it better tbh: Jimbo fixed the loophole of PC version on GP, in 2022 they put DS on their banner of PS IPs and announced DS2 after removing it from PC GP. Now the news is DS IP is owned by Koijima, that goes beyond the PC version.
 

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With Hermen in charge? Nothing LMAO
Fr. The likely chance are that pysint isn’t even exclusive nor a Sony/PS ip & actually fully multiplat using decima + using Sony funding while only getting marketing.

As I said. These decisions to release Spiderman & 3rd party ip to PC & multiplat will effect how 3rd party see PS. Say bye bye to Square Enix relationship there essentially confirmed fully multiplat now after these past moves & it will only get harder to make these kinda exclusive when 3rd party see PS games not even being exclusive to the hardware.
 

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I don’t even get that surprised anymore at the stupid shit Sony does this days. They obviously don’t care about exclusives anymore.

I bet Spider-Man and Wolverine will go to Xbox eventually too.
Sony open Pandora’s box now 3rd party partners will peer pressure Sony/PS to release game multiplat or never work a then again where if they kept it exclusive those partners wouldn’t even bat an eye
 

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I already have a PC, and already have a Steam library yeah.

And you know what I’ve learned? All this can you build a PC for the price of the PS5 pro with same performance bullshit doesn’t even matter. You can cheap out on the GPU and still play all those games, probably not even playing in 4K so you can get pretty similar results at lower rez and you just upgrade to another “cheaper” gpu later that.

The math doesn’t even matter anymore, online on PlayStation is what 120 +- a year? Plus cheaper games on PC like, over the course of one or two years, if you buy games on the regular you are going to save money.

PlayStation looking like “casual Dad buys his son a console”, this is the last one for me. I haven’t bought a game for PlayStation in several months because I’ve been paying attention to what’s going on.
I've also been a pretty big fan of the price point of games on PC, since I usually buy several per month. The variety of games on the Steam storefront is also pretty good, if you play a lot of indies.
 
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People should have pieced this together when Kojima announced the movie was being produced by A24 rather than PlayStation Productions and Sony Pictures.

Sony almost certainly tried and were unsuccessful in buying Kojima Productions and moving forward probably doesn't want to fit the bill for development costs.

It was always clear that Death Stranding never performed super well and it was expensive to develop. There were rumors at the time that even its development costs were driving a wedge between SIE and internal development studios. The game sold a number of units, but mostly not at full price. It drew less revenue than Bloodborne and Day's Gone and barely more than Detroit Become Human.

I was surprised when they greenlit a sequel.

It'll be interesting to see if future Kojima Productions games use decima and if they do what the arrangement would be for it i.e. free or if they'd charge them a license for it. We'll never know what the details are, but it wouldn't be surprising to see if Kojima shifts to unreal engine.
 
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Neversummer

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Apparently owns Physint too so that’s going to be on Xbox ahahha

Sony are clowns, spending hundreds of millions on IP they don’t even own
& here I thought Sony would do a collab on Helldiverse 2 that promoted & synergies Death Stranding 2 w armor, planets & cosmetics to benefit both Helldivers 2 & Death Stranding.

Herman has 0 clue what it takes to make multiplayer popular & ownership of ip is very important to do cheap collaboration. PS the last 4 years literally burn 1 billion dollars & took lost in multiple sectors lmao next is them loosing PS. What a disaster
 
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What weird shit is this, how does opportunity cost make sense here? You spend hundreds of millions on an IP that you won’t even own, build it up so that at the end it’s not even a PlayStation IP? You give away your top of the line technology so that it goes on Xbox?
Funny enough death stranding was at a financial report as a pillar PS franchise 💀this is probably Herman weak ass relationship w Kojima. He literally a danger to the PS business.

Maybe this is 4D chess to get Xbox to sell back Crash & Spyro in that case I could maybe let it slide. But this is pure speculation but I’d take Crash & Spyro then death stranding especially if Kojima is gonna remain 3rd party or hard to lockdown completely
 

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Fr. The likely chance are that pysint isn’t even exclusive nor a Sony/PS ip & actually fully multiplat using decima + using Sony funding while only getting marketing.

As I said. These decisions to release Spiderman & 3rd party ip to PC & multiplat will effect how 3rd party see PS. Say bye bye to Square Enix relationship there essentially confirmed fully multiplat now after these past moves & it will only get harder to make these kinda exclusive when 3rd party see PS games not even being exclusive to the hardware.
Not just the square enix relationship
 
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Funny enough death stranding was at a financial report as a pillar PS franchise 💀this is probably Herman weak ass relationship w Kojima. He literally a danger to the PS business.

Maybe this is 4D chess to get Xbox to sell back Crash & Spyro in that case I could maybe let it slide. But this is pure speculation but I’d take Crash & Spyro then death stranding especially if Kojima is gonna remain 3rd party or hard to lockdown completely
Sony should have just taken a timed exclusivity deal for Death Stranding rather than buying the IP from Kojima. Kojima is dubbed an auteur and auteur love their independence. I believed he was never going to sell his studio to anyone. Now this whole thing with the Death Stranding IP for Sony ended up being a rental all along rather than a real purchase. Also, I think we have a better chance of seeing Xbox selling Banjo back to Nintendo first before they sell Spyro/Crash to Sony.
 

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Also, I think we have a better chance of seeing Xbox selling Banjo back to Nintendo first before they sell Spyro/Crash to Sony.
Funny enough I think Nintendo themselves would buy banjo, crash & spyro & completely lockdown universal/family driven platformers. PS is slowly deteriorating on front of our eyes