Kojima reveals OD and Physint games are on hold due to SAG-AFTRA strike

 

The year 2024 has already passed for our gaming industry. This year, there were good games and bad games, to the point that the good ones were too good (high-pitched voice), and the bad ones were so bad that we spent hundreds of millions of dollars on them. As for the dark horse games, good games, fun games, and bad games, we had many to play and talk about throughout the past year. And in 2025, there will definitely be more fun games, good games, and bad games for us to watch. We'll have to wait and see what this year will be like. And as we enter 2025, our gaming industry is immediately hit with drama. It's been ongoing since last year with the effects of the SAG-AFTRA strike this year, which is also related to the gaming industry. Our god, Hideo Kojima, spoke about this on X on December 31st, saying that character recording for the game OD and casting for Physint had been delayed until this year, delaying the game's development.

This story comes from an announcement on X by the great god Kojima. On his personal X under the name HIDEO_KOJIMA (with a blue check mark), he came out to talk about what will happen in 2024, both thanking the development team of the game Death Stranding 2 On The Beach for producing the music recording and recording the Japanese language last summer. And during one of the stories (cut to the important parts), Mr. Kojima talked about a new game in development, OD, a horror game that many people are expecting, and guessing that it will be a new Silent Hill game, including a new spy game, Physint, which will be suspended because of this protest.

Thank you for all your support in 2024. It was a year full of many things: DS2 development, the release of our second trailer, ADR for the actors, music production and recording, Japanese voice recording. In the summer, we started to play and build up the game. We were also able to hold a TGS stage event for the first time in 5 years. For OD, we developed the game and had actor and environment scanning. In the second half of the year, scanning and filming were suspended due to the SAG strike. Casting was also suspended for Physint due to the strike. We hope to resume next year. Personally, I have an ongoing series of essays published in anan and Nikkei newspaper, radio programs "Hide Radio " and "KOJI10,” a special episode of "HideoTube,” and also "Hidemys 2024" book fair, which I almost gave up on. I continued to comment on movies and novels, though fewer than usual. Preparations and planning for the live-action DS film with A24 as well as other adaptations are underway. I signed with WME. We also held a "Death Stranding Exhibition" at Shibuya PARCO (Nagoya and Osaka to be held next year). It was a year that went by in a flash. Thank you for your support this past year. Have a great New Year

Part of what Kojima mentioned on X was, "For OD, we have developed the game and have completed the scanning of actors and environments in the second half of the year. However, the remaining scanning and filming will be suspended due to the SAG strike. This includes casting for Physint, which will also be suspended due to the strike. We hope to resume operations next year."

Finally, we can only hope that everything goes well, from the film and series industry to the gaming industry. Because if the production schedule is delayed, the games that we will get to play will be delayed even more, which has a long-term impact. And this is not the first time that this has happened to the film industry, but this time it has also included the gaming industry. We will have to wait and see how it ends. But seeing our great god post a black and white picture like this, we know that it must be really bad. In any case, let's hope that the bad things will pass quickly and wish everyone a happy new year. May you encounter good things and have fun games to play throughout this year, 2025.

Finally, we can only hope that everything goes well, from the film and series industry to the gaming industry. Because if the production schedule is delayed, the games that we will get to play will be delayed even more, which has a long-term impact. And this is not the first time that this has happened to the film industry, but this time it has also included the gaming industry. We will have to wait and see how it ends. But seeing our great god post a black and white picture like this, we know that it must be really bad. In any case, let's hope that the bad things will pass quickly and wish everyone a happy new year. May you encounter good things and have fun games to play throughout this year, 2025.