Hideo Kojima has insisted Death Stranding was a sales success, and has enabled Kojima Productions to fund its unannounced second project.
In an interview with Japanese website Livedoor (translated by VGC), the Metal Gear Solid creator said: “We’ve absolutely crossed the line we needed to cross to be in the black, including recovering development costs, so I’d call it a successful result.
“We still have the PC release coming up, and we’ve secured enough to begin preparing for our next project, so there’s no need to worry.”
Death Stranding launched on PlayStation 4 on 8th November 2019 to positive reviews. It entered the UK boxed games chart in second place, behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and sat behind Days Gone as the second biggest PlayStation-published game of 2019. Sony Bend’s not-zombie killer sold around a third more copies during its UK launch week. Death Stranding saw UK boxed sales similar to those of The Order 1866 and Bloodborne – each shifted similar amounts to Death Stranding during their first weeks on sale – all within 3000 copies of each other.