Det var med noget tumult at Hideo Kojima kom ud af sit samarbejde med Konami efter udgivelsen af Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, og startede Kojima Productions, der i dag er ved at lægge sidste hånd på Death Stranding. Det er studiets første spil, men åbenbart var der en anden idé oppe at vende inden de besluttede sig for at det skulle være det.
I et interview med Julien Chièze siger Kojima nemlig, at dette mystiske andet projekt blev aflyst til fordel for Death Stranding.
"In 2016 we were a handful of people in a tiny office, and in June of the same year we started game design, casting without even knowing the whole game. It's like a marathon, where the middle is the hardest part. The start is easy, everyone is full of energy, then in the middle you cannot see the end, and it feels like there is no end, and it's a terribly draining. But honestly, the closer we get to the end, the more we see that arrival, which gives us extra strength. I had many ideas and concepts, but to be honest Death Stranding was not the first idea, it was literally the last. There was another game that I had to abandon and I will probably never come back to it. So that is how Death Stranding was born."
Nu får vi snart at se om Death Stranding er dette andet mystiske projekts død værd.