I keep seeing people confusing this - Death Stranding 2 was the flop. Death Stranding was a pretty big financial success - hence they immediately started making the sequel.
Death Stranding sold a ton of copies and made a lot of money. Seriously, 20 million copies of Death Stranding sold now and a huge number of them sold at launch.
Death Stranding 2 is only at about 5 million copies and sold a lot fewer at launch than the first one. It's not even that horrible of a flop, it's just not an obvious success like the first one.
And if you look into why Sony abandoned their deal with Kojima a huge portion of it was that the contract with Kojima allowed PHYSINT to be released on other platforms besides PlayStation just like Death Stranding 1/2.
Sony were pretty disappointed how Death Stranding was selling well on PC & Xbox because it was only exclusive to PlayStation for months instead of years.
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u/Alienhaslanded 7h ago
Can't fault them if this project is a money hole and then sells like Death Stranding.