Sony Interactive Leisure has bought a PlayStation unique IP to its developer. A short while in the past, we shared the shock announcement of Demise Stranding Director’s Minimize’s Xbox Sequence X|S launch, which led to speculations that Sony may be warming as much as the concept of releasing its IP on Xbox. Nevertheless, it’s now been confirmed that Kojima Productions has bought Demise Stranding from Sony.
The curious case of PlayStation unique Demise Stranding
The official Demise Stranding Xbox announcement tweet features a title picture that carries the “2024 Sony Interactive Leisure Inc.” copyright on the backside. This led to the idea that Sony nonetheless has some form of involvement within the IP. However an article revealed by Japanese web site Automaton-Media (and later confirmed by IGN) states that Kojima Productions has really bought Demise Stranding from Sony.
“Kojima Productions introduced that the IP will belong to the studio,” Automaton-Media wrote (by way of Google translate).
This places to relaxation speculations that Demise Stranding was sure by a five-year console exclusivity deal (the Xbox announcement marks the sport’s fifth anniversary). One doable clarification for the picture within the tweet above is that Kojima Productions repurposed an outdated picture and plastered new textual content on high of it.
Demise Stranding’s sequel, Demise Stranding 2: On The Seashore, will launch solely on the PS5 in 2025.
