r/videogames • u/TheDuckClock • Sep 10 '26

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This is just wild. PlayStation wanted to end their partnership with Hideo Kojima. So Xbox was like: "Your loss."

This year is really starting to feel like an inverse of 2014 when Xbox ruined their public image with some insane Always Online DRM requirements and PlayStation capitalized on that.

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u/M4rshmall0wMan Sep 10 '26

People here are automatically assuming that Sony fumbled the bag. We have no idea what happened behind the scenes. We barely even know what Physint is. There are so many possibilities other than “Sony leadership is stupid”:

- Maybe Physint’s development is troubled and Sony saw the writing on the wall

- Maybe Kojima wanted Physint to use the same cloud infrastructure as OD, and Sony couldn’t provide it.

- Maybe Xbox swooped in with a huge offering that Sony didn’t feel was worth it to match. If Physint doesn’t recoup the investment, then Microsoft would end up the loser.

- Maybe there was a disagreement about development timelines or console exclusivity.

I’m not saying this to glaze Sony. Just to remind y’all that video game development is so much more complicated than just “auteur = good.” Overinvesting in a game is just as bad as underinvesting in it. We’ll just have to wait and see how this pans out before we declare winners and losers.

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u/M4rshmall0wMan Sep 10 '26

Sony bad Kojima good

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u/M4rshmall0wMan Sep 10 '26

I think social media users are plenty literate. The problem is that the content they’re being shown is inflammatory dogshit. IMO it’s far more the responsibility of the content creators and the platform algorithms than the individual users. They’re victims of information rot.