Games Journalists are VERY CONCERNED about the Xbox+Kojima budget.
They were not concerned when PlayStation signed him and closed:
❌FirewalK Studios
❌ Bluepoint Studios
❌London Studios
❌Neon Koi Studios
❌Cancelled 4 Games
Chris Dring says “PHYSINT budget at Xbox is reportedly around $400 Million”
Jason Schreier was asked to comment; he said the Xbox deal for PHYSINT potentially significantly less than $400 Million
“I am hesitant to get into exact numbers without seeing documentation or corroborating them with multiple firsthand sources, as always.
And there are a lot of different numbers here. There's the number Physint was originally signed for at PlayStation, the number it was approaching, the number that came up during negotiations, the number it would have been with certain A-list actors attached, the number that Xbox agreed to, and the number it will actually cost by the time it comes out.
All that said, someone at Xbox with firsthand knowledge of the deal told me that they signed Physint for significantly less than this.”