Hideo Kojima Shows There’s No Hard Feelings After Physint Axe by Visiting Sony City
Hideo Kojima has been photographed outside Sony City, and the timing is hard to ignore. The visit comes roughly a month after PlayStation cancelled Physint, the espionage action game he had been working on, in one of the more shocking turns of recent years. The story did not end there. Xbox stepped in to back the project, rescuing what had been positioned as a spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid. That reversal left plenty of PlayStation fans frustrated, and it turned a straightforward cancellation into a much bigger conversation about platform loyalty and where creative talent ends up. Which is what makes a casual photo noteworthy. Sony City is Sony’s Tokyo headquarters, and a visit there is not confirmation of anything on its own. People meet for all sorts of reasons, and a picture proves only that someone was standing outside a building. But in a medium where fans read meaning into every post...
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