{"id":102644,"date":"2019-10-28T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/352980"},"modified":"2019-10-28T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:41:00","slug":"kojima-productions-death-stranding-will-come-to-pc-months-after-ps4-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/kojima-productions-death-stranding-will-come-to-pc-months-after-ps4-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojima Productions&#8217; Death Stranding will come to PC months after PS4 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kojima Productions\u2019 debut title<em> Death Stranding<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojiPro2015_EN\/status\/1188787623965401088\">launching on PC next year<\/a>, rendering the once PlayStation 4&nbsp;exclusive a mere PS4 console exclusive as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/505_Games\/status\/1188801879100272640\">505 Games steps<\/a> in to publish the game on PC.<\/p>\n<p>Though a PC release had never been ruled out, the game has largely been thought of as a PlayStation 4 exclusive for most of its development. After all,&nbsp;<em>Death Stranding<\/em> was announced back in 2016 on Sony\u2019s E3 stage, Sony Interactive Entertainment was announced as its publisher from the get-go, and the game is built on SIE-owned studio Guerrilla Games\u2019 Decima engine.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement isn\u2019t a complete surprise, however. There\u2019s always been some rumblings that <em>Death Stranding<\/em> would eventually launch on PC, rumors fed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2015\/12\/16\/10288004\/kojima-productions-ps4-timed-exclusive-pc-release\">quickly-deleted Q&amp;A mentioning a PC launch<\/a> a few years back and other comments along the way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Death Stranding<\/em> will hit PlayStation 4 well before PC, however. <em>Control<\/em> publisher 505 Games has signed on to bring the game to PC, but the game won\u2019t launch until early summer 2020. While a PC launch is now confirmed, no storefront is mentioned in the initial announce making for a curious omission as competition between Steam and Epic\u2019s competing Epic Games Store platform continues to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kojima Productions\u2019 debut title Death Stranding is launching on PC next year, rendering the once PlayStation 4&nbsp;exclusive a mere PS4 console exclusive as&nbsp;505 Games steps in to publish the game on PC. Though a PC release had never been ruled out, the game has largely been thought of as a PlayStation 4 exclusive for most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}