Yesterday we received the sad news that Stadia, Google’s cloud service, has ended its journey. A total shutdown that will take place on January 18, 2023, when the servers and all content will no longer be available. But it looks like this won’t be the last we hear from Stadia, as they’ve started spilling rivers of ink over some of their canceled projects.
And one of them seems to be that this would have been the next game after Death Stranding, Kojima’s new IP, which would have been developed exclusively for the Google platform.
The new Kojima was going to be exclusive to Stadia
According to reports 9toGoogle, Kojima Productions would have worked on an exclusive title for Stadia. It would be designed as a single-player experience, something a far cry from the Japanese genius’ latest proposal. The pre-production phase would have started in 2020, when the project was presented to Google. However, this same source indicates that Phil Harrison, head of the platform, would have made the decision to cancel the project.
This way, Kojima would have been working on a cloud-based project for Google. Does that sound like something to us? Indeed, Kojima Productions’ new project is an Xbox-exclusive cloud experience. Thus, the project may have changed platforms and is now exclusive to the Microsoft ecosystem. Or there may be a lot of that widespread project left, at least in terms of concepts and ideas, in his new project in collaboration with Microsoft, which will be native to xCloud.
JGBassols
My vocation has always been archaeology, but by chance I fell in love with Egyptology. But I am above all a parakeet and a gamer. Also, I am a lover of good stories. If you don’t see me studying, I’ll be with a controller and a console adventure.
