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Game director Hideo Kojima, in an interview prompted by his own post on X, explained why he’s once again teamed up with Xbox. According to him, it’s not simply about getting funding for game development — Xbox is a partner that shares his “vision for the future,” one that includes expanding into new IP through film and anime as well as games. On 5ch, reactions ranged from blunt confusion (“I have no idea what Xbox’s vision even is”) to speculation that the deal came about because Kojima himself talked Xbox executives into it rather than the other way around, along with comparisons of how Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox each handle film and anime expansion.
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The biggest thing is that they're not just thinking about funding games. They're thinking about movies and anime too. It's really more about IP — the idea of "let's build new IP." In other words, the scale of it is bigger. There aren't that many other publishers or developers out there with that kind of vision.
I genuinely don't get it
Microsoft's vision
they're just too weak to actually pull it off
Ah, that's what he means
Re: #47
Sony's strong across movies, music, and anime content
Their old style was using content to lure people into buying hardware,
but the platform side isn't working out for them anymore
For games it's the opposite — content is weak, but the platform alone is doing fine
The Minecraft and Fallout movies both did well
The Minecraft and Fallout movies both did well
Not buying it even if it goes multiplatform
It's not coming to PS, so don't sweat it
it wasn't MS who came asking —
Kojima talked Asha into letting him put it on Xbox himself
Is there really anyone dumb enough to think this is coming to PS5?
Whether the game even comes out at all is shaky, isn't it?
There's a real chance it gets cancelled
a money pit like that
Nintendo would hate a guy like Kojima more than anyone
he thinks of himself as some kind of artist
but they're not doing the kind of media mix people actually want — just hoarding their content instead. Watching from the outside, it's such a waste
Sony's internal divisions don't get along, so it's probably just not happening for them
They only make movies or theme parks as part of leveraging IP that's already popular
Completely different from Kojima, who seems to think making a movie-like game makes it easier to turn into an actual movie
Kojima's approach is actually closer to Level-5's
His idea of an ideal deal is "just hand over the money and let me do whatever I want across other platforms and movies," so no sane company is going to agree to that
A24's Backrooms was directed by a 20-year-old and was a massive success
Director Kojima's probably feeling the heat
meaning it's all just Kojima's fantasy?
If he went to Nintendo, 90% of his cutscenes would get cut lol
they don't pay much and they're strict about deadlines
stingy Kyoto merchants through and through
They worked together back on Twin Snakes
Just call up Ryuhei Kitamura again
He's probably just eaten up with jealousy over Miyamoto — the Mario movie was a worldwide hit and expectations for the Zelda movie are sky-high too
Well, if a game creator's going to be involved with a movie, that kind of hands-off distance is probably the way to go
Grandpa, did you forget the Minecraft movie was a smash hit last year?
Why are you even bringing up Palworld lol
Comparing it to the almighty Mario and Minecraft
that's one seriously bold IP
truly the future of PlayStation
Nintendo definitely isn't picking him up
Big-name auteur-type developers from third parties — companies probably learned their lesson with Kamiya
a lot of them are strong-willed and don't play well with others
well, Game Freak's kind of like that too, but they're a collective, so it's more just issuing revision notes on whatever gets submitted
was his actual plan to just keep making games and wait for a movie offer to come knocking eventually?
He's actually turning down plenty of offers to direct movies as it is
Background and key points of this topic
Kojima Productions, led by Hideo Kojima, has so far developed the Death Stranding series for PlayStation, but in 2022 it also announced a new-title partnership with Xbox Game Studios, part of a broader recent shift toward a stance not tied to any single platform. His latest remarks frame Xbox not simply as a source of funding, but as a partner for IP expansion that extends into film and anime — a shared “vision for the future.” The thread split over what exactly this “vision” refers to, and over how to read reports that the deal came about through Kojima approaching Microsoft rather than the other way around. Since Sony has its own media-mix strategy, there’s no real evidence beyond Kojima’s own comments explaining why he singled out Nintendo and Xbox for comparison — much of the thread’s reaction amounted to speculation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Hideo Kojima: “I teamed up with Xbox because we share the same vision as Nintendo”.”
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