Sony Reportedly Balked at PHYSINT's Ballooning Budget, but Xbox Scooped up Kojima for Far Less than the Reported $400 Million
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Sony Reportedly Balked at PHYSINT's Ballooning Budget, but Xbox Scooped up Kojima for Far Less than the Reported $400 Million
Following the startling news that Sony had dropped its partnership with Hideo Kojima on the new MGS-inspired IP PHYSINT, and the equally unexpected discovery that the game had been saved by Sony's rival platform, Xbox, it was reported that the project's budget was among Sony's chief concerns leading to this choice. In the latest episode of The Game Business show, Chris Dring claimed that the budget was around $400 million. However, two sources h…
Xbox would be paying only a fraction of the figure close to $400 million that had been associated with Hideo Kojima’s proposal to Sony, according to clarifications published by various media this weekend. Although the real amount that Microsoft is investing has not been disclosed, the original figure of $400 million never officially confirmed. That number initially came from Christopher Dring, from The Game Business, who mentioned in his podcast…
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