Kojima Productions

What Kojima Productions is

Kojima Productions is a game studio incorporated in Japan and based in Tokyo. The studio's terms and conditions give the company address as Kojima Productions Co., Ltd., Shinagawa Season Terrace, 1-2-70 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0075, Japan. The studio's own company timeline records that Kojima Productions was officially established as an independent studio in December 2015, and that it moved to a new office in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in March 2016. Its mascot, Ludens, was revealed in July 2016.

The studio describes itself in its user agreement as a corporation incorporated in Japan, and publishes its own terms of use, terms and conditions and privacy policy for the services built around its games. Those terms state that the agreement applies to KJP websites, games, forums, wikis, blogs, social media accounts and customer support. This profile covers the studio in its developer role, as recorded in our database alongside the game Death Stranding.

Death Stranding

Death Stranding was the studio's first developed title and was announced at the E3 conference in June 2016. In May 2019 the studio announced that the game would launch on PlayStation 4 on 8 November 2019, and the PC version followed in July 2020. The company timeline records that Death Stranding had sold over five million copies on PC and PlayStation 4 as of March 2021, that it had connected with over ten million porters by November 2022, and that the figure reached twenty million porters in March 2025.

A PlayStation 5 version, Death Stranding Director's Cut, was announced in June 2021 and launched on PS5 in September 2021, followed by a PC release in March 2022 and releases on iPhone, iPad and Mac in January 2024. A sequel, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, was announced for PlayStation 5 in December 2022, given a launch date of 26 June 2025 by the studio, and released on PS5 in June 2025, with a PC release following in March 2026.

The relationship with PlayStation

The studio's first title was tied to Sony from the start. The company timeline records that in December 2015 Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a signed agreement with Kojima Productions to produce the studio's first title for PlayStation 4 as an exclusive title for the home entertainment system. The studio itself remains independent: it describes itself in its user agreement as Kojima Productions Co., Ltd., a corporation incorporated in Japan, and it handles its own website terms and player agreements rather than operating as a label inside another publisher.

Awards and the tenth anniversary

The company timeline notes that the studio won three awards at The Game Awards 2019, held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, and that Hideo Kojima received the Fellowship Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in March 2020 and the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts from the government of Japan in March 2022. The studio also records obtaining THX pm3 Studio Certification, a quality standard for acoustic technology, for its own sound studio in June 2024.

Kojima Productions marked its tenth anniversary on 23 September 2025 with an event at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Japan, and celebrated the anniversary itself in December 2025. A tenth anniversary exhibition, titled Beyond The Strand, is scheduled to run from 31 October to 20 December 2026 according to the studio's announcement, which says it will include production materials, immersive installations and video works made for the event.

Games

• Death Stranding
• Death Stranding Director's Cut

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