Weird PS5 Game Abandoned Delays Trailer App to Friday

Been hearing some murmurings of a potential Sony event this Thursday and if that is the case that could be the true reason behind the delay. Also a good time to announce A Plagues Tale PS5 upgrade for PS+

Been finding this whole Blue Box situation very entertaining and I don’t necessarily care how it turns out. It’s bizarre enough to actually amount to something so will just watch with popcorn and enjoy!

I still believe it's too much exposure given by Sony to a unknown developper with not much to say about it's project... besides that who knows what's going on, is fun though

@Gilvin I'm not convinced it's Kojima at all, but none of this makes any sense.

Sony wanted something to show, but they didn't have anything so made a trailer that is nothing like the game? Since when does Sony show anything before it's ready? And how did they have nothing to show if its supposed to be out this year?

I don’t care about Kojima all that much so at least I won’t be disappointed if this turns out to be nothing - it is the weirdest thing in video games in a good while though

Kojima's english sounding pretty good on the audio clip 😃

I've not played Death Stranding so don't know if this means anything but Sam had a Dutch Flag on his backpack didn't he in the directors cut trailer? Reading the Push Square articles Blue Box are a Dutch studio, does this mean anything? The Death Stranding directors cut trailer itself being like Metal Gear was also odd.

@bimboliquido yeah, and using sentence case in the article titles would make distinguishing the game title from the story title a little easier 🤔

"No, the teaser we didn't have a lot of time so Sony wanted something real quick. So we had to show something and that was not the game at all. So the game will be different."

What nonsense is this? Showing Last Guardian and WiLD long before they're ready is one thing, but outwardly admitting to showing footage that isn't even your game to this extent doesn't sound like Sony at all. Unless Sony's standards have slipped dramatically very recently, this is bulls**t.

Godjima? Godjima! Gooooooodjiiiiiimaaaaaa!!!!

Whatever happens with all of this its been good fun.

There are no such things as PS exclusives, every game from one of their owned or partner studios will eventually release on PC. Console exclusive? Yes but this is the new reality.

I prefer console gaming to PC anyway but for those that don't then they'll be getting the best from both PS and Xbox. It makes sense for the latter to release on PC but still not sure why Sony are doing the same.

As for this game, I guess we'll have to wait a bit longer for the mystery to be unravelled.

As someone once said in a film about an animal park turning to disarray, "Hold onto your butts!"

The guy has done a great job in getting people talking about his game but I don't see why anyone thinks this has anything to do with Kojima. Their Twitter account dates back to Jan 2015 BEFORE he even left Konami, plus there are some Kisckstarter things dating back to 2014. How would he know then that Konami would cancel his game and then licence it back to him at some point in the future?

I am no longer convinced that it’s Kojima behind this drama. I think this kahraman dude is a weirdo. He is basically going Kamikaze with these conflicting “ kerfuffle “

Sony in NO way is pressuring any developer to show ANYTHING if a supposedly PS5 exclusive is not ready or early in development!

So disappointed.

Its fun to have a bit of mystery and little arg-lite nonsense, I just hope whenever it is revealed they are prepared for the more...unsavoury elements of a backlash.

Im interested to see what it is though and hopefully its just a good new horror game.

@Col_McCafferty It's like Console manufacturers are essentially telling us PC is the way to go without realising it, quite silly.

if i wasn't locked to my huge ps+ library with almost 8 years of non-stop subscription i wouldn't bother for a ps5..still waiting to get one and first party releases are the most expensive between platforms.

@velio84 pretty sure you mean CHAOS

This is such a strange thing they are releasing. It's just an app you download just to watch trailers? Also how does a trailer app need a delay? It just...you know...plays trailers. And that quote is absolutely bonkers. They just straight up admitted that teaser was completely fake and didn't represent the game at all? What a bizarre story this has turned out to be.

I thought the game looked cool, right up my street. But that apparently wasn't representative of the game at all now?
If this turns out not to be silent hill then I reckon they've dug their own grave a bit as they've definitely been fanning the flames. So I can see some backlash. Hopefully the game will be good enough to stand on its own.
Also PC...

This goes one of two ways;

1. It's Hideo Kojima trolling us all and its Silent Hills. Hitting PC at a later date much like Death Stranding. Everyone rejoices!

2. It really is just a indie studio and they've used the Silent Hill rumours as a way to gain promotion for an otherwise uninteresting game. Everyone rages!

Hideo kojima and Konami are now following each other on twitter! Days before this bluebox reveal? Something is happening and you don't have to be on "team real" to see it.

Sony isn’t giving some random dude with no apparent real development history of note his own app download on the PS store. I think when you pair all this weirdness with the bizarre Death Stranding trailer that was basically MGS it becomes pretty hard to think nothing is happening. I think Konami and Sony are back working together and I think Kojima is probably involved.

I just know I'm not installing an app just to watch trailers.

@Voltan i think its going to be turn out to be something , and honestly im excited for it. even if its not silent hill i think it will be something cool.

@carlos82 one really weird thing is if you write Hideo into Google Translate and translate it into Turkish, you get this guy's last name; Kahraman.

@Matroska perhaps this developer has created a fake name or it's pure coincidence. Of this is somehow true its a lot of effort to go through for no payoff

@Dr_ENT I can believe that Sony pressured Blue box to show something. Especially if Sony is the private investor that fully funded their kickstarter back in 2014. If I was Sony, I'd be eager to finally see something from my investment after 7 long years.

@Matroska I think that's just coincidence/bug with Google Translate, if you spell Kojima's name correctly in Japanese, then it translates to just Hideo in Turkish.

Someone with a better understanding of Japanese can correct me, but I believe Google is translating eiyuu to turkish (kahraman) instead of hideo, which have the same spelling in Japanese when using kanji.

@Ward_ting where did you hear such murmurings?

@Bagwag82 I’ve seen some stuff on Reddit and just various stuff on Twitter. It’s all quite possibly just speculation at this point.

The Reddit posts I’ve seen refer to a supposed leak, but that suggest the date is 28th June.

Sony have also recently filed a Trademark Application for PSX (PlayStation Experience) possibly alluding to a big PlayStation event incoming.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/np3cyt/a_new_playstation_experience_appears_to_be/

Edit: there’s also the rumour of 8th July so at this point just pick any Thursday in the coming weeks and hope there’s an event 😂

Guys if you use google translate and put HIDEO (without Kojima) and translate it to Turkish the name that comes up is KAHRAMAN which is totally weird and makes some interesting coincidence! Its true -try it and let me know what you think
Im a believer after this

@Col_McCafferty It makes sense for everyone to eventually release on pc. Ring some extra cash out of it at the end of its life and promote interest in a sequel or the next game from the studio. Which then drives people to console if they want it earlier than five years from now.

@Milktastrophe Yeah, I pointed that out in another thread prior to that post you're quoting. 英雄 is hero in Japanese (eiyuu) whereas Hideo is 秀夫 and has no translation. One possible explanation for Google switching it to eiyuu and getting the 'hero' translation is that the individual kanji in 秀夫 translate to 'excellent' and 'man' amongst other things. So maybe Google fudges that into 'hero' since it can't find a translation for the two kanji together as a compound (in Japanese, kanji are read differently based on if they're separate, like 秀 and 夫, or if they're in a compound, like 秀夫).

All that said, it's still an insane coincidence that after the various Kojima and Silent Hill baiting, the guy's last name is what Google Translate gives you when you write out Hideo in the English alphabet. Yeah it's not the actual translation of 秀夫 but it is still what you get from the same name in our alphabet. Doesn't mean it's actually Kojima but at the very least I'd say Kahraman is a fake name.