Friendship ended with PlayStation, now XBOX is new best friend?
Logo for Physint, a Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions title, now published by XBOX.

In January 2024, Hideo Kojima's Kojima Productions and PlayStation's Hermen Hulst announced that they were partnering on a new action-espionage title called Physint. This deal would see PlayStation publishing the Kojima-developed title, making it a PlayStation 5 exclusive release.

Outside of a brief update in August 2025 where Kojima shared some of the stars that will appear in the game and a poster, not much else has been revealed. It has been assumed that Kojima Productions was still mainly focusing on the upcoming horror title OD for XBOX Game Studios while development on Physint continued at a slow but steady pace in the background.

Either development wasn't moving fast enough for PlayStation, or the Sony-owned company just wanted to save money, because they ended their partnership with Kojima Productions for Physint.

Hideo Kojima announced tonight that PlayStation wanted to cancel Physint back in June 2026. In the months since, Kojima Productions hunted for a new publishing partner for the game. They ended up going once again with XBOX. The official announcement was first made by Kojima Productions earlier tonight.

Today, we are excited to confirm that our journey with PHYSINT continues with Asha and the team at XBOX.

XBOX understands and shares our bold creative vision, and this expands our relationship with XBOX beyond OD. As we move forward with the development of PHYSINT, we remain committed to redefining the action-espionage genre for players around the world.
Hideo Kojima shared more information on his social media shortly after his development studio's official statement was released.

As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner. In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.
With XBOX now publishing Physint, it is assumed (though unconfirmed) that the game will release on XBOX Series X|S and PC. With XBOX going back and forth on multi-platform releases, it isn't quite out of the realm of possibility that the XBOX-published Physint will also release on PlayStation 5.