Death Stranding will not be at E3, Hideo Kojima confirms

Hideo Kojima on Twitter: “Apologies to our fans, Death Stranding will not be @ E3 as we are fully focused on development. Pls see me with @geoffkeighley on 6/14!”

[TheColbertinator]

Steam version please,Kojima :)

[Nyxus]

Sony is financing its development, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

[freshslicepizza]

Didn't Sony also help publish No Mans Sky and help finance Street Fighter 5?

[Rimeskeem]

@moldy

I believe Sony helped with marketing for NMS and published SF5 on the PS.

Kojima is literally using a Sony owned engine for his game and collaborating with GG so I think that means it's a exclusive.

[zivtheawesome]

@moldybread
GG said the engine is made around 30fps and not unlocked framerate therefor there is 0 way it would be released to the PC unless some serious reworking of the engine would be done.

[Liqu1d]

Sony payed for marketing and physical distribution for NMS, Hello Games self published.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@moldy-?? Sony to my understanding never published no man's sky.

[AcidDvl]

Love how you're being downvoted for stating a fact.

[UCForce]

@Gekins it's completely changed that afterward. Death Stranding is now using Decima Engine. That Engine is made by GG.

[Tech5]

"Death Stranding is now using Decima Engine. That Engine is made by GG."

Both Ready at Dawn and Remedy said the same thing about their engines before listing pc. Just about All game engines support PC by default, PC is the basis for C++ programming. technically only a contract would suspend a developer from releasing a pc version. In RAD's case they had implemented pc support but they were under strict contract at the time not to release anything.

[UltraNova]

Who care's if it will be released on PC down the line.. I know I don't.

There's plenty of time for Death Stranding to showcase at PS experience. I want to see brand new IPs this Monday.

That said Kojima is a known​ troll so I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up on stage with a ps4 controller and starts playing an early build of the game...

[UCForce]

Kojima using Decima Engine aka Killzone ShadowFall Engine, so no.

[Rimeskeem]

I think Decima was created to develop Horizon for the open world which is why Kojima wanted to use it.

Either way it's a PS engine \(^^)/

[frostypants]

@Rimeskeem, Horizon is just the current best example of what the engine can do. It was indeed used for Shadowfall and a some other rather obscure titles before, though.

[UCForce]

@Tech5 True, but GG is Sony first party studio. The original E3 trailer of Death Stranding was used different engine ( could be Unreal Engine 4), but completely replaced by Decima Engine in VGA trailer. I think Kojima choose GG engine because I believe GG did impressed Kojima. Remedy and Ready at Dawn are both second and third party developers. Again, I could be wrong. But seeing Kojima and GG have been working together, you can see Kojima has huge respect to GG.

[UCForce]

I know you are going respond something. So spit it out already.

[Shadowsteal]

Death Stranding is being made on the Decima Engine, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

[BlakHavoc]

Eh I doubt it. Being published by Sony, decima engine, and it's a Sony IP. Highly unlikely it comes to any other platform.

[zivtheawesome]

take your time, it's alright.

[Thatguy-310]

I'm at least hoping for a new trailer lol

[AcidDvl]

I think the whole point of the tweet was to confirm that there will be no Death Stranding on E3.

[never4get]

2020, can't wait! xD

[Ceaser9857361]

Ya, I am expecting a gameplay next around PSX.... So its fine by me if they wanna take E3 off...

[GizriGunda]

Take your time Kojima San.

[Majin-vegeta]

I.expect it.at PSX

[ninsigma]

That was what came into subhead as well. Hell of a lot of time between now and then to have some really good stuff to show.

[crazychris4124]

But why? They just picked their engine at the end of last year so they are full steam ahead towards a finished product. Waste of resources to make another trailer when the game isnt coming out for another couple years. Just gotta be patient.

[UCForce]

Just take your time, Kojima.

[Rimeskeem]

Honestly, that just tells me Sony doesn't need that at their E3 because it's already filled with announcements that will blow the roof off.

[Fishy Fingers]

Suggests to me he was making trailers to show before having much of a game to follow them up.

No surprise, Kojima always takes an age to produce his games and they're almost always worth the wait, just often falls foul of revealing them a little early.

[Nyxus]

He doesn't take an age. He takes a normal amount of time for the type of games he creates.

[Fishy Fingers]

Haha. What a cop-out attempt at justifying it. In comparison to other devs he takes his time (I wasn't complaining just saying) and rarely do his games have anything others don't (as in the development/core fundamentals) Perhaps it takes longer to produce an empty open world for MGS5..?

[Nyxus]

There's nothing to 'justify'. The time he takes is perfectly normal. And cool cheap jab at MGSV.

[Fishy Fingers]

Wouldn't call it cheap. Thought it was rather upfront.

Ok, we can agree to disagree. No biggy. It was just a throw away statement. Didn't intend to get anyone's back up.

[Nyxus]

@ Fishy: It's just not true that Kojima takes an exceptionally long time to develop his games, that's what I was responding to.

[Fishy Fingers]

Like I said agree to disagree. But think it's pretty accpted his development cycles are longer than the average. But either way, as a fan, perhaps it just feels that way to me. Perhaps I need to be more careful over my wording.

[Gatsu]

If you haven't noticed, many other developer games take the same length to be finished like his games...

[Liqu1d]

Well that's a few points lost on the prediction contest.

[Hallgeir]

What a shame since I was really looking forward to se more of it. On the other hand they should take their time and show it off when the time is right. Its not like Sony doesnt have any other games to show at E3:

The Last of Us: Part II
God of War
Days Gone
Spiderman
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Detroit: Become Human
Gran Turismo: Sports

I just cant get over how freakin' fantastic this lineup is...

[starchild]

It really is a very strong lineup. I'm personally not interested in Gran Turismo, but all the rest of them are games I'm looking forward to a lot.

[ClayRules2012]

=(

[MrJay]

Maybe at PlayStation Experience in December.

[trooper_]

Kojima delivers masterpieces so I'm not surprised. Take your time.

[notyonka]

Kojima will be with Geoff so maybe we know new details. Shame it's not a new trailer or a gameplay.

[BlakHavoc]

No issue with this. We've already gotten two trailers, comeback when u have gameplay to reveal.

[corroios]

Sony just get kojima!!! It such a genious. Maybe at gamescom or the playstation event they show us more stuff. Sony got to many stuff for e3!!!! lol.

[subtenko]

BOOOOOOO!!!! BOOOOOOO!!! :P least he taking his time

[Pancit_Canton]

No more spoilers from the media. I want to be surprised when i play this game

[Gatsu]

I wanted to see it so much, but I'm glad they are focusing on developing it.

[DaGreatOne]

So it's ok to brag about exclusive features of a console but not its exclusive games? Also this whole notion of gamers need to justify their purchases based off of what brand they buy is ridiculous. We try to justify our purchases on nearly everything.

[tyasia0]

Fine by me that leave more time for games we haven't already heard about. Death Stranding is in the works thats enough info for me. I want to hear about new games at E3 that i can look forward too.

[Goldby]

i would have liked ot see some gameplay, even if its all of liek 20 seconds or something

[Blu3_Berry]

I'm not upset, take your time because you deserve it. Honestly though, I'm glad he confirmed it won't be at e3 so now people won't have to expect it to show up. Would've been way more disappointing if he said nothing at all about it not being at e3.

[Iltapalanyymi]

it is coming to PC you illiterates. it was confirmed during E3 2016 that it's coming to PS4 first, and PC later.

[house]

i think that idea was scrapped due to the fact that they're using GG engine that of course is spectacular but also built around ps4. i think the idea was ps4 and PC at first but once he picked GG engine that idea might have gone out the window. i would love to have it on PC since i game on ps4 and PC but the sad case is that it seems very unlikely.

[TheOttomatic91]

Well this is a major personal burn to me I mean of course I'll still enjoy E3 but it'll still be missing that one special trailer to me.

Although there is a chance this is just a troll but I doubt it considering Kojima plans the game to release before 2019 (which I don't see happening) so it makes sense. I hope in the interview with Geoff Keighley we at least see screenshots of new characters.

[Scatpants]

But perhaps a fake game with Kojima revealing it in disguise?

[Chumdiddy]

I'm equally very bummed (my main reason to care about E3 this year) and very encouraged that development must be really moving now. I'd rather Kojima have his team building a game than a demo or 7,000 trailers like his past games. I know HE made the trailers but he didn't do it alone, the team has to make special assets and finish certain assets in time to make the trailer that shows those assets. The dev team is taxed there. Let them work.

Bummed but I'm sure we'll see gameplay or at least a more descriptive trailer soon.

[Auron]

Damn... Its for the best I suppose...
Definitely one of my most anticipated PS4 games next to The Last of Us 2 and Shenmue 3.

[Elda]

Anybody with common sense shouldn't have expected the game being shown at E3 knowing it hasn't been a complete year of development,this game has a long way off before we even get our hands on it. Imo it could possibly be a PS5 game or the last hurrah on the PS4.

[ZombieGamerMan]

Well not like the game isn't coming out in 2020 so we got plenty of time to know what the fuck Death Stranding is

[Ristul]

Sony always have to leave games out, they simply have to much in the pipeline to show off everything in one single E3 showing. I think it was the right move for Death Stranding, the game needs time in the capable hands of Kojima and his team.

[sreevenkat]

No Death Stranding means, new IP in that place at e3 conference i think.

[shadowknight203]

It wouldnt be the first time Kojima has said something wont happen and then it does. It'll be revealed as a suprise showing (hopefully). Fingers crossed*

[PurpHerbison]

Holy... I have to take a huge dump right now!