Aaron Greenberg visits Kojima Productions with Xbox Game Studios to discuss cloud engineering in cool hoodies
Xbox and Kojima talk top-secret plans over delicious food and great merch.
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Continuing the partnership between the Xbox Game Studios publishing brand and Kojima Productionsannounced in mid-2022, vice president of Xbox games marketing Aaron Greenberg has recently traveled to Tokyo, Japan, accompanied by studio team members.
Sharing a brief collection of photographs on Twitter, Hideo Kojima, the director, designer, and lead producer of Death Stranding, is seen shaking hands with Greenberg as they wear seemingly purpose-made merchandise emblazoned with the logos of both studios in a traditional Xbox green finish. Outside of group shots featuring the team in their slick branded hoodies and a slew of delicious-looking buffet food, the specifics of the visit were kept brief.
With MS team. pic.twitter.com/GmSU6i9V94March 1, 2023
Sharing Kojima’s original Tweetto his timeline, Greenberg briefly explained the team’s first-ever visit to Kojima Productions.
“Bringing engineering, cloud, marketing & production teams together to kick-off an exciting journey ahead"seems perfectly in line with previously-announced plans to utilize Microsoft’s cloud technology to create a groundbreaking video game concept, with Kojima claiming other tech companies hadthought his ideas were mad.
Although Death Stranding 2 is in the works already, and the original gamemade its way to PC Game Passlast year, this partnership between Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios is set to create an all-new title, one that has supposedly never been possible before this cutting-edge cloud technology became available.
Death Stranding (PC version)
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