Hideo Kojima leaves Konami, partners with Sony for first game as a free man

This new, independent Kojima Productions has already struck a deal with Sony for its first game. It should be noted, however, that Sony has deliberately called this hypothetical game a “console exclusive to PlayStation 4.” A community manager for PlayStation’s European branch later clarified this means whenever Kojima’s whiff of a creation manifests into an actual thing (2019 seems like an optimistic bet, unless it’s a much smaller game than he’s known for), it will also be released for PCs, albeit after the PlayStation launch. Whether the game is a “timed exclusive” —meaning it could eventually migrate from PlayStation to whatever consoles Microsoft and Nintendo are selling by then—was not announced.

This is the rare case of a hardware maker investing in little more than the creative potential of a bankable video game auteur and his collaborators, rather than some promising prototype from a vaunted development house. Whatever the studio creates, it’ll be Kojima’s first original game since 2003’s Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand—and it’ll probably start with that snazzy new Kojima Productions logo seen above, followed by a credits sequence that repeats every half hour or so.