For Death Stranding 2, it smells the flop on PS5

Hideo Kojima doesn’t want us to love Death Stranding 2: On the Beachbut he still wants him to sell. And, on this point, the signals are not positive. In a press release published on the PlayStation Blog on August 13, 2025, Sony announced the arrival of a big game playable from the last game of Hideo Kojima. Concretely, PlayStation more premium subscribers will be able to play 5 hours (and find their backup if they buy the game).

This initiative is good news for the owners concerned of a PS5, but it is not necessarily an indicator that plays in favor of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. See Sony offer such a glimpse, less than two months after the launch, certainly at a weak sample, suggests that there is an urgent need to convince and, by deduction, disappointing sales. The Japanese firm did not communicate anything on this subject, when praise could be expected in the event of massive success.

Disappointing sales for Death Stranding 2 ?

On his constantly fueled X account, Hideo Kojima prefers to share anecdotes on development – which will please his fans. But nothing that tends to prove that its game, exclusive to PlayStation 5, finds its audience. However, it displays a Metacritic score at 89 out of 100, and an average note at 8.8 out of 10 from the players and players. If commercial performance was up to par, we would probably have a tweet pinned to the official PlayStation account.

In an article published on July 3, the media The Game Business mentioned the following figures: 1.4 million sales recorded at the end of June. “” The game observes a slower departure than its predecessor in terms of physical sales in Europe, but sales in digital format are higher », Can we read. In any case, he was only seventh of the charts in the United States, with regard to the second quarter. Admittedly, it came out at the very end of this period, but the largest of the volume is generally achieved during the first days of the game.

As a reminder, the first Death Stranding had crossed the 5 million sales mark in March 2021, accumulated on PS4 and PC. Four years later, Hideo Kojima no longer spoke in sales, but in number of players and players. The game therefore reached 20 million by adding all sales (PS5, PS4, Xbox, PC) and access via subscriptions. Which does not correspond to 20 million copies at all at the time.