Following the announcement that a Death Stranding Director’s Cut will be coming to Xbox, Kojima Productions has also announced that the Death Stranding IP now belongs to the developer.
The announcement, which came via automaton-media, read, “In addition, KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS announced that the IP for this work will belong to the studio. They said that they will continue to connect more fans around the world in various forms of entertainment”.
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is scheduled to release for the PlayStation 5 in 2025. However, recent news could suggest that the game could launch on day one on the Xbox platform and PC, too, if PlayStation didn’t get some form of marketing/exclusivity deal.
Regardless, today’s announcement of the Death Stranding Director’s Cut on Xbox suggests that Death Stranding 2 will eventually be released on Xbox and PC.
We’ll have to wait for an additional announcement of such details, with the most likely announcement coming at Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards this December (granted, if PlayStation doesn’t have some exclusivity).
Death Stranding on the Xbox will be published by 505 Games.
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It makes sense especially since A24 is making the movie not Sony. But it looks weird Sony helped develop it and funded it and it really didn’t sell well. Will he own the other IP he’s creating for PlayStation the stealth action game?
Can Sony do this with other IP like Dark Cloud and Rogue Galaxy give them fully to Level 5, give Jak & Daxter to Big Red Button, give Bokeh Gravity Rush, things like that.
NetEase should give Tomokazu Fukushima and Kazunobu Uehara a blank check to make games since they’re the ones who made Kojima’s games at Konami not him. Maybe Konami brings them back now that Kojima is gone.
Kojima ponies going crazy right now the cope is real just look at mbg he’s so conflicted right now forget the games their videos are hilarious it’s 2024 and they’re still console cultists
I think they’ve always owned the IP can you go into detail about this? I mean 505 published the PC port and Sony wasn’t mentioned for that version, A24 is making the movie not Sony, and now this. If I remember right I think Death Stranding was the first PS4 game to be ported to PC because it wasn’t owned by Sony.
Nope. Sony owned Death Stranding IP up until yesterday. As in it was their property and they could do whatever they want with it. That’s why it was never on Xbox. Looks like as a faith of goodwill to Kojima to keep good relationship with him more than likely, they sold the IP to him.
It’s not unheard of but doesn’t happen often. Happened with Remedy and Alan Wake too.
It wasn’t just Death Stranding. Kojima now owns OD and Physint too. He fully owns all his game properties. good for him.