For a project that was , Death Stranding did a pretty good job of it himself. As the game celebrates its third anniversary today, Kojima Productions revealed that more than 10 million people have played the studio’s first game. The milestone takes into account all platforms where Death Stranding is available, including . “It makes me happy to think that there are over 10 million ‘Sam one’ players around the world, all loosely connected,” creator Hideo Kojima .
It might seem obvious that a game from the creator of Metal Gear Solid would have commercial success, but it didn’t always look like that. According to some accounts was a flop when it first came out. according to an as of 2020, Sony was reportedly unhappy with the game’s sales, with the post’s author claiming 3 million copies of Death Stranding from March of that year in warehouses. But then the critical re-evaluation of the game began, aided first by the and then it is. In Death Strandingmany people found an experience that helped them understand a world that had changed overnight and in July 2021 the game had .
As regards Death Stranding’s future, actor Norman Reedus recently announced that Kojima Productions is working on a sequel. In recent weeks, the studio has also started teasing a game featuring actors and .
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