Google reportedly changed into down a Stadia-exclusive Demise Stranding successor

Google reportedly changed into down a Stadia exclusive follow-up to Hideo Kojima’s Demise Stranding.

In line with a new anecdote from 9to5google, the project purchased initial approval but because it changed into once supposed to be a strictly single-participant experience (as a replace of the asynchronous multiplayer in Demise Stranding), the Kojima collaboration changed into once cancelled as Google believed there changed into once no longer a market for solo video games.

Without reference to reaching the early phases of pattern, the project changed into once reportedly cancelled by Stadia’s standard supervisor Phil Harrison in mid 2020 following the vital mockups.

The solutions appears to tally with a VGC anecdote from 2021 that Google changed into once engaged on varied third-celebration tasks, including a Kojima Productions project understood to be an episodic wretchedness recreation.

That anecdote changed into once denied by a Google Stadia spokesperson at the time, claiming it did not “own something, nor own announced something, with Kojima or Yu Suzuki” and that talking to partners about doable tasks changed into once “very overall”.

Although Demise Stranding changed into once launched solely on PlayStation in 2019, a PC model followed in 2020. Versions of the Director’s Decrease later regarded on both platforms.

The day earlier than this day Google announced it would perchance perchance be shutting down its Stadia streaming service.

A ramification of exclusive video games for the service are now at possibility of being lost if no longer ported to assorted platforms.

Stadia developer light engaged on video games own expressed shock at the unexpected data.