Since Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside has been out for a number of months now, director Hideo Kojima has revealed that he already has an idea for a 3rd recreation within the franchise prepared. In an interview with PlayStation Arabia, Kojima additionally talked about that he doesn’t need to make the title himself. Slightly, he needs another person to develop Dying Stranding 3.
As caught by social media consumer Genki_JPN, Kojima considers the ending to Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside as a finale for his time engaged on the franchise. Nevertheless, he has written up the ideas for a 3rd Dying Stranding recreation within the hopes that another person will make it.
“I’ve no plans to make that (DS3) in the meanwhile,” he mentioned. “As a result of the ending of Dying Stranding 2 was my finale of 1 and 2. However I already wrote the idea of DS3. So I’ve that in information. I hope that somebody will create it for me.”
This determination possible comes all the way down to the truth that Kojima can also be engaged on two different main recreation tasks now that Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside has been completed – Physint and OD. The previous is slated to be a stealth recreation and was conceptualised by Kojima as a result of followers have needed him to make one thing like a Metallic Gear title since his exit from Konami.
“After all, I’ve numerous new concepts that I need to create,” Kojima mentioned about engaged on Physint again in Could. “However after I turned sick through the pandemic, I realised that lots of people needed me to make one thing like Metallic Gear. That’s after I had the thought for a brand new espionage recreation. I mirrored, and thought the thought was good.”
In February 2024, Kojima had additionally defined his determination to return to the espionage style after having labored on Dying Stranding since he left Konami. In an interview, Kojima talked about that he first needed to create a brand new IP to problem himself, which led to the event of the unique Dying Stranding. Nevertheless, after engaged on Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside, he has needed to discover a number of the new concepts he’s been getting.
“And since then, there have been a number of new concepts. However within the final eight years, each day on social media, from customers all all over the world, individuals have been asking me to create one other Metallic Gear and stuff like that.”
Whereas Physint continues to be a while away, with Kojima noting earlier this month that it was nonetheless within the “conceptual stage”, he’s additionally working with Microsoft on horror title OD. Whereas Kojima has beforehand famous that Physint continues to be 5 or 6 years away, questions concerning the standing of OD got here up after the current spherical of lay-offs at Microsoft. The corporate, nonetheless, confirmed that OD is being labored on by Kojima Productions and Xbox, and that this collaboration continues to be ongoing.
OD was introduced all the way in which again in 2022, and can star Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier.
