Physint Finds New Partner In Xbox After PlayStation Informed Kojima They Planned

Hideo Kojima has announced that Physint, the upcoming stealth title originally announced back in 2024 in collaboration with PlayStation, has found a new partner in Xbox after Sony informed him they were cancelling the project.

As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the Physint project. Physint is an important project both to me personally and to Kojima Productions. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner.

In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in Xbox a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of Physint, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.

PlayStation also issued its own statement, as seen below:

An update from PlayStation Studios: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to step away from collaborating with Kojima Productions on its project Physint. We continue to have great admiration for Hideo Kojima‘s vision for the game. Our relationship remains strong after three decades of industry-leading, genre-defining creative cooperation, and we look forward to continued close collaboration with Hideo Kojima and his award-winning independent studio in the future.

Speaking during an interview with Le Film Francais back in May 2025, Kojima revealed that Physint will take “another five or six years,” so the game is obviously still in the very early stages of development. The game was originally announced during Sony’s State of Play broadcast in January 2024, and forms phase 2 of Kojima Productions following Death Stranding 2 and OD.

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