00:00PlayStation's cancellation of Fizzant, before Xbox swooped in as publisher, came as a huge
00:05shock to Hideo Kojima because a return to the action espionage genre he helped pioneer
00:09is, in his words, the biggest selling title I could possibly create.
00:13Earlier this month, Sony announced it had parted ways with Kojima Productions' Fizzant,
00:17a seemingly huge game it had excitedly revealed years prior.
00:21Minutes later, Xbox picked up an easy win and announced that it would be publishing
00:25the project instead, alongside the duo's already revealed horror game OD.
00:29Speaking to the Washington Post, Hideo Kojima pulled back the curtain on all the drama.
00:33In June of this year, Sony apparently met with studio presidents Shinji Hirano, Kojima and
00:38head of talent development Aki Saito in a Zoom call to let them know the company would no
00:42longer be funding Fizzant.
00:44Kojima says via an interpreter that the news left him shocked and surprised, though there's
00:48apparently no hard feelings for Sony.
00:50I didn't have any anger or sadness.
00:52He then quickly got to work trying to find a new partner to save both Fizzant and the
00:56people employed at his studio.
00:57We're an independent studio.
00:59That means if they can't fund us, our studio could collapse, he explains.
01:02This is the biggest selling title I could possibly create.
01:05I didn't think Fizzant would be on the list of being cancelled.
01:08Are you excited for Fizzant?
01:09All right.
