Hideo Kojima’s Physint reportedly has a budget of around $400 million, according to The Game Business. The huge reported budget is said to have spooked Sony, which later walked away from the project. Xbox has since reportedly picked up the game. Jason Schreier also described the budget as “pretty significant less” Jason Schreier uses to lie a lot so don’t believe too much

Xbox’s deal for Hideo Kojima’s Physint is “substantially below what Xbox would typically spend to develop a premium game,” the New York Times reported in a profile of CEO Asha Sharma. A $400 million figure circulated last week. That is not the number the Times is describing. Xbox took the project after Sony canceled it. Kojima pitched Sharma himself. He told IGN Microsoft is “not thinking of just funding a game.” The deal includes movies and anime. “It’s more about the IP.” Physint has no date. It is expected after OD.

XBOX paid HOW MUCH for PHYSINT? (And why is everything in caps these days?) The $400M PHYSINT number came from early negotiations with Sony, not what Xbox actually paid. Xbox sources say the final deal is far lower. We break down what’s real — and what isn’t. FULL STORY from @jezcorden👇

Hideo Kojima posted new official art for PHYSINT. The poster shows Bill Skarsgård and Charlee Fraser and lists Don Lee and Minami Hamabe. The tagline is “The Next Cold War Begins.” Credits name Kojima for scenario, production, game design, and direction, and Yoji Shinkawa for character and mechanical design. Xbox and MetaHuman logos appear on the poster. A second image from Kojima Productions and Xbox shows the same four-person cast under the line “A Hideo Kojima Game.” Kojima confirmed Skarsgård as the lead. PHYSINT is an action-espionage game from Kojima Productions, now published by Xbox.

PlayStation has officially stepped away from PHYSINT, its planned collaboration with Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions. The game is still in development. Xbox has expanded its partnership with Kojima Productions and will now publish PHYSINT. PlayStation says its relationship with Kojima remains strong and that it hopes to continue working with him on future projects. Sony keeps taking terrible decisions wtf are they doing

PlayStation reportedly pulled out of Hideo Kojima's ‘PHYSINT’ due to 3 reasons: • PlayStation didn't want to invest more money in a game that wouldn’t be permanently exclusive to PS consoles • The ‘Death Stranding’ games didn’t meet PlayStation's revenue expectations • The game was tracking to be over budget after missing some deadlines (Source:

Kojima said that PlayStation was going to cancel Physint three months ago and he has been looking for a partner ever since. Yet Sony funded Concord, Marathon and this new Horizon game nobody asked for, and refused to fund a Metal Gear spiritual successor gamers have wanted for years. Sony can't fall any lower. Thank God Asha stepped in to support Kojima.

Windows Central claims Xbox is paying only a fraction of the rumored $400 million for Hideo Kojima’s PHYSINT. According to Jez Corden, sources with direct knowledge of the contracts said that the $400 million figure being reported may actually have been the amount Sony/PlayStation could have been on the hook for before its deal was cancelled. Corden says Xbox and Kojima Productions are instead working with a “fraction” of that figure. Playstation would spend that on concord 3