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Sony Reportedly Balked at PHYSINT’s Ballooning Budget, but Xbox Scooped up Kojima for Far Less than the Reported $400 Million

Promotional image for the game 'PHYSINT' by Hideo Kojima, featuring actors Bill Skarsgård, Charlee Fraser, Don Lee, and Minami Hamabe, with logos of Kojima Productions and Xbox.

Following the startling news that Sony had dropped its partnership with Hideo Kojima on the new MGS-inspired IP PHYSINT, and the equally unexpected discovery that the game had been saved by Sony’s rival platform, Xbox, it was reported that the project’s budget was among Sony’s chief concerns leading to this choice. In the latest episode of The Game Business show, Chris Dring claimed that the budget was around $400 million. However, two sources have since disputed Dring’s claim. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier replied in the ResetEra thread, having heard from an Xbox contact that they are investing “significantly less than that”: I am hesitant to get into […]

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