They didn’t need to “cash in” on the PR because they ARE the PR. Kojima gets rumored to leave Konami,Kojima leaves Konami,People asks what’s next for Kojima, Kojima and Sony announce Death Stranding and partnership. It’s not some conspiratorial cash grab thing like you’re making it out to be.

Huge propaganda campaign? It was a single YouTube video,hardly “hugh propaganda campaign”…

There’s no way Kojima could pay for all the designers it would take to create a new game engine,hire and continue to pay separate designers to create Death Stranding,pay for building space and utilities for 3 years or more,etc…all by himself without support,that support just happened to be Sony because Sony has always been Kojima’s friend. When your apartment catch’s fire and you’ve got no place to go,who do you ask for a place to crash? Your homie.Sony is that homie.

That wasn’t even close to my point. They had to announce it early to cash in on the PR surrounding this “poor developer treated badly” by big bad publisher. As harsh as Konami may have been, we don’t know all the details, and it’s just as likely as anything else that Kojima was fart arsing around trying to create his now fabled (wink wink, Fable) “future of gaming”. A very good reason for developer vs publisher hostility.

“They had to announce it early to entice backers to invest in his new studio”. Lol, no. Backers can “enticed” without some huge propaganda campaign. Investment 101, trust me. A quiet meeting with investors, with an NDA strapped to it are easy for a developer with his career.

“Kojima didn’t spend all of his own money to open a new studio, you know”. Many other developers have no issue.

In your case, it would seem you’ve bought into the PR tactic.

I wouldn’t WANT it to release this gen. Delaying the game to create the best game possible should be Kojima’s main focus as it’s his new studio’s first game and it NEEDS to impress.If that means waiting for the PS5 then so be it.

Yes they should’ve. Trying to open a new studio with no game is bad.

Not even, Death Stranding will be a PS exclusive and Sony is partnered with Kojima. It’s Kojima’s new studio’s first game so of course they had to announce it early to entice backers to invest in his new studio. Kojima didn’t spend all of his own money to open a new studio,you know.

Only if it’s PS4Pro/X1 only. The base models of both are too weak to do this game justice.

And make it both available to previous and today’s generation console just like MGSV

Sony was just chasing the good PR out of the whole Konami thing.