Sony Interactive Entertainment has updated the PlayStation Studios website banner to include Death Stranding, leading to speculation that it may have acquired developer Kojima Productions.
As spotted by aReseterauser, an image ofDeath Stranding’s Sam Bridgeshas replacedone ofConcrete Geniepreviously included on the banner.
Other changes include the addition ofDemon’s Souls(Sonyacquired the game’s developerBluepointlast year) and updated MLB, Horizon andGran Turismoimages.
UPDATE:Hideo Kojimahas since tweeted the image too, before laterclaiming that the studio will remain independent.
ORIGINAL STORY CONTINUES:Hideo Kojima foundedKojima Productionsin 2005, under the control ofKonami, where he worked for over 30 years and created the Metal Gear series.
After splitting from Konami in 2015, he reformed Kojima Productions as an independent studio, backed by PlayStation.
The company’s first game was Death Stranding, which Sony published forPS4in 2019 and forPS5in the form of 2021’s Director’s Cut.PCversions of the titles were published by505 Games.
In March,Kojima revealed that the studio was relocatingafter five years at its Tokyo-based office, although the reason for the move wasn’t specified.
PlayStation bossJim Ryanrecently confirmed thatSony has more acquisitions plannedfollowing a number of recent buyouts.
Over the past year the platform holder has acquiredHaven,Bluepoint Games,Housemarque,Nixxes SoftwareandFiresprite.
It was also announced in January thatSony plans to acquire Halo creator Bungiein a deal worth $3.6 billion.
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“We’re in a really good place with PlayStation Studios and have been for the past few years,” Ryan told the latestPlayStation podcast. “The critical success and the commercial success of the games that they’ve been making… that has given us permission to invest heavily in content creation.”
He added: “We’re growing our studios organically and we’re growing through acquisition. We acquired five studios during the course of 2021, we’re in discussions withBungieand we have more planned. This is getting us into a virtuous cycle where success begets success.”
