Hideo Kojima leaves the door open for his next project to not be a video game

With Hideo Kojima, you never know what to expect. He is a multifaceted man who loves to surprise and always does what he wants. Pleasing the public is not among his priorities, and anyone who thinks they know what he will do next should be prepared to be wrong. Therefore, it was not surprising when the Japanese creative confirmed that, indeed, his future is not necessarily in video games.

Hideo Kojima has signed with the talent agency WME, suggesting that his next project might not be a video game. Something he elaborated on in an interview with Variety, where he stated that he created Kojima Productions with the idea of creating “digital entertainment,” not necessarily a video game. Hence, his next project could be a video game, an anime, a movie, or something entirely different, as nothing is ruled out in that regard.

Establishing themselves as an indie studio, as they do not belong to the structure of any large company, all this happened while a roundtable on Death Stranding 2: On The Beach was being held at the Tokyo Game Show. In this, Hideo Kojima revealed some new images of the game and its peculiar photo mode, which allows us to manipulate its characters as if it were a digital photo session.

Well, if you are waiting for a specific release date for the game, we are afraid we have bad news. According to Kojima himself during the event, due to a series of unforeseen circumstances that prevent the announcement of its release date right now, we won’t know when the game will be released until sometime in 2025.

At the same time as Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Kojima is working on OD, a game for Microsoft with no release date that he described in an interview with Variety as “a game like no other.” Additionally, he has also announced his desire to return to espionage games with a game named Physint, but only after completing Death Stranding 2: On The Beach and OD. Therefore, even if the most renowned creative in contemporary video games might do something outside the medium, it doesn’t seem like he will leave us without things to play in the meantime.