This cryptic tweet immediately kicked off speculation that Kojima Productions officially joined PlayStation Studios.
Hideo Kojima mysteriously posted a photo of PlayStation Studios before clarifying that his studio will remain independent.
Kojima Productions was founded in 2015 as an independent studio after previously being an in-house team within Konami, Kojima’s previous company.
Kojima announced his new studio alongside Sony at the 2015 PlayStation E3 presentation, and Death Stranding uses a version of Guerrilla Games’ Decima Engine.