Kojima sketches Death Stranding 3 concept, won't direct game

Hideo Kojima, the creator of the Death Stranding series, says he has already sketched a concept for a third installment but does not plan to make it himself, instead hoping another developer will carry the project forward. Kojima made the comments in recent public appearances and interviews, saying the conclusion of Death Stranding 2 served as a personal finale for the story he intended to tell in the first two games.

"I am not planning to do Death Stranding 3 at the moment," Kojima said, according to translated remarks. "Because the ending of Death Stranding 2 was my finale of 1 and 2. But I already wrote the concept of DS3. So I have that in data. I hope that someone will create it for me." The remarks were reported after a Death Stranding 2 event in Riyadh and in an interview published by PlayStation Arabia, with the quote amplified on social media by a user who posted the translation.

Kojima, 62, has said he wrote the DS3 concept as a kind of stored idea but prefers to move on to other projects. He is currently developing a new espionage title under the working name Physint, which he has described as a return to the stealth genre that inspired his earlier Metal Gear work....