Despite previous reports, according to the head Hideo Kojima himself, death stranding sequel exclusive google stadium will never happen.
Back in September, there was a report that at some point, a Death Stranding sequel of some sort was in the works for Stadia, but was eventually canceled by Google Stadia’s general manager Phil Harrison because the company didn’t think there was a market. No more single player games. Well, that report sounds wrong, because on episode 10 of his Brain Structure podcast, Kojima put the guesswork to bed (thanks GamesRadar).
“How do you react to this?” Kojima asked hypothetically about the many things that the player came to him for. “Users send me directly things like ‘The news about so-and-so is going around. It’s constant, it happens almost every day, and I don’t know where the original source came from, so I can’t say too much.'”
Kojima later pointed out that he never spoke to Harrison about a Death Stranding sequel. “Rumours that Death Stranding and the sequel will be a Google exclusive are unfounded, and it’s totally unlikely that Phil Harrison would ultimately reject that. I never said to Phil that I wanted to create a Death Stranding game. The sequel, I don’t know who pulled this information, [or] from where. ”
We rarely get something this blunt from developers, so it’s refreshing to have an actual statement on something like this, even if it doesn’t ultimately matter to the public.
We do know a Death Stranding sequel is in the works, as Norman Reedus said earlier this year, but it hasn’t been officially announced. It’s also not the only project Kojima Productions is working on, as the equally unconfirmed Overdose is slowly being teased by Kojima himself, with some gameplay leaking online earlier this week.
