Xbox Game Studios team visits Kojima Productions ‘to kick-off an exciting journey’

Xbox Game Studios’ publishing team recently visited Kojima Productions for the first time to discuss their upcoming collaboration.

Hideo Kojima announced last June that he had teamed up with Xbox to work on a cloud-based project which he described as a “never-before-seen concept”.

And on Wednesday, Kojima shared images of Xbox Game Studios members visiting the independent developer’s Tokyo headquarters.

“Our first visit to Kojima Productions with our Xbox Game Studios Publishing teams,” commented Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft‘s VP of Xbox games marketing. “Bringing engineering, cloud, marketing & production teams together to kick-off an exciting journey ahead.”

At the time of collaboration’s announcement, Kojima described the project as “a completely new game, one that no one has ever experienced or seen before”, and in a more recent interview he claimed one of his next titles is “like a new medium”.

In December, Kojima told IGN that he pitched the “unusual title” to a large number of potential partners, but Microsoft was the only one to really get the concept while others thought he was “mad”.

“I tend to get easily bored,” he said. “Part of why I’ve been able to make games for 30 years is because new technology replaces the old so quickly. The tech you use today may not be applicable tomorrow, and I’m interested in figuring out ways to incorporate the new. Making the wrong choice can result in failure, of course. It’s a bit like a space program in that way.

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“The project we’re working on with Microsoft is one I have been thinking about for five or six years already. The project required infrastructure that was never needed before, so I discussed it with lots of different big companies and gave presentations, but they really seemed to think that I was mad. It was ultimately Microsoft who showed that they understood, and now we’re working together on the project, including the technology front.”

Based on footage that leaked last November, Kojima’s unannounced project would appear to be a horror game called Overdose.