Fan timeline traces PHYSINT's development, from Sony cancellation to Xbox publishing
Kojima Productions PHYSINT idea/experimenting/development timeline (plus info about Kojima Productions growth over the years)
Reddit user /u/Sascha2022 compiled a timeline of Kojima Productions' PHYSINT from 2019 to 2026, along with the studio's growth. According to the post, Sony notified the studio in mid-June 2026 that it was cancelling the project, and on September 10 the studio confirmed Xbox as its new partner and publisher. On September 17, Hideo Kojima revealed Bill Skarsgard as the lead at the Xbox Tokyo Game Show stream, saying the project remains at a conceptual and experimental stage with a small team.
A timeline of PHYSINT's public milestones from conception to its move to Xbox shows how the project's scale and staffing shifted.
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