Speaking at the “Il Cinema in Piazza” Film Festival in Italy (translated by Genki), the Death Stranding and Metal Gear director said that at least with digital games, users have the data on their systems, something that isn’t the case with cloud gaming.
“Since production is ending in 2028, this is about video games, but I grew up with physical media, so I find it really sad,” he said. “Currently, I’ve been buying up a lot of Blu-rays, such as various movies, and CDs too.
“The situation is different for games [than movies], as they are downloaded to the hard drive, that means the game data remains on your own hardware. However, if things shift to streaming in the future, that won’t be the case anymore.”
Said the guy who released a horror game teaser then took it off the store…
Death stranding sits at about 10k votes to bring to gog.com but nah. Gotta have that DRM.
But nice try Kojima. You almost got me.
It’s a teaser for a game that never came out, I’m pretty sure he had complications with studios. What’s the point of keeping a short demo of a game that was canceled?
P.T. was the announcement teaser that Kojima was to be directing Silent Hills with del Toro but then Konami cancelled it as the company exited the video game industry and Kojima left to found their own studio.
Why blame Kojima for something Konami did without their involvement at all and long after they’d left the company?
The same Koijima thar was doing a game for Stadia?
The same Kojima who did not make a Stadia game.
Well because the game got cancelled by Google after the closure of the platform. After Microsoft decided to resume thst game and now he is building it with them
He pitched it, it was approved, he started working on it.
Then he received pressure to make it multiplayer (presumably to add microtransactions). He refused, so the game was canceled.
Yes, that Kojima. The same Kojima who never sold you a microtransaction, weapon skin, season pass, or even a paid DLC. The same Kojima who never compromised his artistic vision for a payday, the same Kojima who never bowed to studio pressure to make his game “more accessible” or “more marketable”. The very same Kojima who had to be forcefully removed from his own studio before he’d allow Konami to have a say in his creative process; yes, him. That’s the Kojima you’re referring to.
You could release DRM free copies that users can copy to any form of media they like. If you are using DRM and complaining about this I have no respect for you.
I don’t disagree with you but I also have to assume there are contracts / stipulations in place that prevent a publisher from doing this after sony/microslop/Nintendo agree to sell digital / physical copies if your game.
So you’d rather live in a world without Metal Gear Solid, Zone of the Enders, or Death Stranding?
There’s no way Konami or Sony are going to let that fly. Should Kojima have died on the DRM hill on principal instead releasing his art to the world the way he did?
