Death Stranding Development Surprises Sony, Faster Than Anticipated

While most of us are thinking Death Stranding is taking sooooo long to make it out in the real world, apparently it's just the opposite. Hideo Kojima' breakout studio Kojima Productions is apparently working much faster than expected, surprising even Sony.

In a recent interview, with the full interview translated here, Kojima-san talked extensively about the progress of Death Stranding and how 2017 treated him and his new team. When looking back on the road traveled so far for Kojima Productions, he briefly mentioned that even Sony was impressed with the progression the game has made so far and how fast it is all coming together:

"Currently, we have surpassed the experiment phase, and by entering the next step, we're feeling the response to the new gameplay.

In the schedule of the overall gaming industry, normally it would take about 3 to 5 years to develop a game with everything already prepared beforehand: organization, human resources, game system, engine, tools, etc. But we prepared them while producing the game in parallel. While doing that, we're proceeding smoothly towards the schedule we have decided on. Everyone at our partner [company] SIE also said: "We've never seen [someone] making [a game] with a pace as fast as this."

That is incredibly exciting to see, and with 12 long months ahead of us - proves that we have even more excitement coming our way regarding the mysterious title in the works. Speaking of Death Stranding and its many puzzle pieces, did Kojima-san just give fans a hint about another character in-game? With his track record of promotional art and media posts always holding a hidden meaning, we might have just seen a possible new character that could be making her way into the game. Take a look at the original post here to see if you agree.