Kojima Says Microsoft “Understood” His Unannounced Project, but Other Publishers Thought He Was “Mad”

Kojima Ptoductions' unannounced Xbox-exclusive title was pitched to various other companies, but Microsoft was the only one willing to bet on it.

Posted By | On 22nd, Dec. 2022

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Hideo Kojima and his team at Kojima Productions have quite a bit on their plate. At The Game Awards, we got the announcement of Death Stranding 2 for the PS5, but the studio is, of course, also working on an unannounced title, which will be a cloud-native Xbox-exclusive game developed in collaboration with Microsoft.

In fact, as per Kojima, the project may very well never have moved forward if not for Microsoft. Speaking in a recent interview with IGN, he explained that the mystery game “required infrastructure that was never needed before”, and when he pitched the idea to other publishers and big companies – which, according to previous leaks, included Sony and Google – they thought he was “mad”. Microsoft, on the other hand, seemed to get what the project was about and what would be needed to get it made.

“The project we’re working on with Microsoft is one I have been thinking about for five or six years already,” Kojima explained. “The project required infrastructure that was never needed before, so I discussed it with lots of different big companies and gave presentations, but they really seemed to think that I was mad. It was ultimately Microsoft who showed that they understood, and now we’re working together on the project, including the technology front.”

What that project is hasn’t yet been officially announced, of course, but as per leaks, it will be a horror game called Overdosestarring Margaret Qualley – who also starred in Death Stranding – as the protagonist. Recently, gameplay footage from the title was also leaked.

It remains to be seen when exactly we’ll get more concrete details on the game, but Kojima recently said that he hopes to share new details about it sometime in 2023.


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