{"id":855087,"date":"2026-09-21T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:24:10","slug":"hideo-kojima-says-sony-dropped-physint-during-a-zoom-call-and-gave-no-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855087\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima Says Sony Dropped PHYSINT During a Zoom Call and Gave No Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hideo-kojima-reveals-what-happened-with-sony-in-exclusive-first-interview-since-playstation-ditched-physint\" target=\"_blank\">interview with IGN<\/a>, Hideo Kojima says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/352560\/kojimas-physint-moves-to-xbox-after-playstation-pulls-the-plug-on-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PlayStation ended its involvement in PHYSINT<\/a> during a Zoom call in June. He says Sony gave no reason, though he also admits he didn&#8217;t ask many questions during the meeting, and that Sony hasn&#8217;t been in touch since. Kojima stressed the two are &#8220;not in a dispute&#8221; after roughly 30 years together, but added that he would have liked to hear the decision a little earlier. His studio then spent three months looking for a new partner before landing at Xbox, which it was already working with on OD. Apparently, the interview was conducted before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/352606\/kojimas-playstation-split-blamed-on-expensive-production-that-ran-behind-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg&#8217;s report<\/a> on the split came out. <\/p>\n<p>That report cited unnamed sources claiming PHYSINT was behind schedule and heading over budget, and that the Death Stranding games missed PlayStation&#8217;s revenue expectations. Kojima Productions has since called the claims unverifiable and said it is healthy and profitable. Asked whether PHYSINT could still come to a Sony platform, Kojima said he doesn&#8217;t know and that it&#8217;s a question for Xbox. He added that he thought Xbox wanted to reach as many players as possible, but he wasn&#8217;t sure and said more would be announced later. It looks like the game&#8217;s platforms are still undecided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/4nB4DP5PozkxmkiY.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1707\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g352884\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4nB4DP5PozkxmkiY_thm.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new interview with IGN, Hideo Kojima says PlayStation ended its involvement in PHYSINT during a Zoom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-855087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}