PlayStation’s new first-party art suggests Kojima Productions acquisition
Summary
The banner in question received a refresh at some point this week, as spotted on Wednesday by a commenter at gaming forum ResetEra, to reflect newer first-party Sony releases in the past year. Hence, the sudden appearance of Death Stranding in a far-left corner has us wondering whether Sony has once again slipped some megaton news in an accidental image upload, just as it did with its eventual Bluepoint acquisition in July 2021. At that time, Sonys Twitter announcement that it would acquire Housemarque, the makers of Returnal, included a Bluepoint image that was promptly deleted. Much like the other aforementioned acquisitions, Kojima Productions would make sense as a formal first-party Sony studio, since its output thus far has been tightly bound to PlayStation. Grubb also said a formal acquisition by Sony could still happen with such a deal on the line—much like how Bethesda completed its work on Playstation console exclusives Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo after being acquired by Microsoft in 2020.