Hideo Kojima 'Already Wrote the Concept' for Death Stranding 3, But Isn't Making It Right Now

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, the sequel to Hideo Kojima's 2019 deed Death Stranding, was well-received astatine launch. It's "incredibly breathtaking and original," and "bold enactment that deserves to beryllium encouraged," astatine least, according to our review. As a result, fans mightiness beryllium hoping for an eventual 3rd crippled successful the series. But for close now, Kojima isn't readying to marque Death Stranding 3...even though helium already has a conception written.

Kojima said this successful an interrogation successful Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, arsenic a portion of the Death Stranding 2 World Strand Tour. When asked by the interviewer astir Death Stranding 3, helium replied with the following:

"I'm not readying to bash that astatine the moment, due to the fact that the ending of Death Stranding 2 was my finale of 1 and 2. But I already wrote the conception of DS3, truthful I person that successful data. I anticipation that idiosyncratic would make it for me."

This isn't the archetypal clip Kojima has suggested that idiosyncratic other mightiness prime up the mantle of his games aft him. Back successful May, helium said that he'd been reasoning much and much astir his ain decease lately, prompting him to make a USB instrumentality "kind of similar a will" that lays retired the aboriginal of his studio, Kojima Productions, if helium dies.

“I gave a USB instrumentality with each my ideas connected it to my idiosyncratic assistant, benignant of similar a will,” helium said. “Perhaps they could proceed to marque things aft I’m gone astatine Kojima Productions… This is simply a fearfulness for me: what happens to Kojima Productions aft I’m gone? I don’t privation them to conscionable negociate our existing IP.”

While we won't beryllium getting a Death Stranding 3 anytime soon it sounds like, there's plentifulness coming from Kojima's caput successful the adjacent future. Death Stranding is getting a live-action movie adaptation successful concern with A24, and Kojima is engaged moving connected 2 antithetic games: fearfulness task OD, successful collaboration with Xbox, and Metal Gear successor Physint.

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