We Might Be Nearing The End Of Hideo Kojima’s Career As A Game Developer

4 July 2025

2

we-might-be-nearing-the-end-of-hideo-kojima’s-career-as-a-game-developer — We Might Be Nearing The End Of Hideo Kojima’s Career As A Game Developer

With the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, legendary video game developer and auteur Hideo Kojima is once again back to dominating the gaming conversation, though some may argue he never really left.

Kojima Productions returns with a bold, subversive, and utterly unpredictable sequel in Death Stranding 2.

On the Beach represents Kojima’s first game since 2019, also Death Stranding, and, according to the man himself, it might be one of his final contributions to gaming.

It’s Hard To Imagine A World Without Hideo Kojima Making Games

As first spotted by Insider Gaming, Kojima recently sat down with Brut Media to discuss art and video games. It’s there, via a translation from Genki, that Kojima revealed that after OD and Physint are released, he’ll evaluate Kojima Productions, with the goal being to step away to work on a film.

As it stands, even with the layoffs and cuts at Microsoft, funding for OD is still on the table “at least for now.” That would seemingly be Kojima’s next project, as he previously revealed that Physint won’t be out for “another five or six years,” which would be 2030 at the earliest.

Currently, Kojima is 61 years old, and come 2030, he’ll be 66 years old. He previously stated that he’d like to direct a film while he’s still young and has also discussed his shifting perspective on life after an illness and eye issue.

That said, even if OD and Physint represent Kojima’s final games, his ideas won’t be too far away. That’s because he’s created a USB drive with all of his ideas, which has been entrusted to his assistant, almost like a digital will of ways to continue his legacy.

It’s truly difficult to imagine any sort of world without Kojima making games or being part of the conversation, but it’s becoming abundantly clear that we’re inching ever closer to that reality. Still, it would mean that Kojima is living out his lifelong dream of directing, so not all is lost.