We learned it yesterday, Google will stop Stadia, its service of cloud gaming launched in 2019 and whose servers will be cut next January. An admission of failure for the American giant, which relied heavily on these new streaming technologies and which had even founded Stadia Games and Entertainmentwith Jade Raymond at its head, to develop its own games.
Of course, Google also relied on partner studios to develop games for Stadia, and a well-known Japanese designer obviously worked on a project for a while. As reported 9to5Google, Hideo Kojima was reportedly in contact with Google in order to develop a title exclusive to Stadia. The Japanese had just finished death stranding, an atypical title with a strong multiplayer dimension, virtual deliverers leaving clues and objects to help others. But Hideo Kojima wanted to make a solo game here, which did not please Google. Although the development would have started following an initial agreement, the firm would not have been seduced by the first models and would have canceled the project around mid-2020.
Difficult to understand the strategy of Google here, solo titles are still a hit today, regardless of the platform. Always according to 9to5Google, Kojima Productions imagined an episodic horror gamethe Japanese designer was apparently very excited to exploit the technologies of the cloud gaming and has wanted to make a horror title for a long time. But Phil Harrison, vice president and general manager of Stadia, would have stopped development himself.
This is obviously not the first time that Kojima Productions sees one of his projects cancelled. Everyone remembers PTthe teaser of Silent Hills abandoned while the studio was still owned by Konami. And more recently, Hideo Kojima confessed that he canceled a project because it was too similar to the comics. The Boys. Last I heard, he would be working on Overdosea title starring Margaret Qualley which would be exclusive to the platforms of Microsoft. You can find Death Stranding: Director’s Cut at €35.99 on Gamesplanet.
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