Kojima Productions has not yet officially announced this, but Actor Norman Reedus has confirmed that Death Stranding 2 is already in development. Unfortunately, we do not have more information about this second work, but taking into account all the working time that the original needed to do, we can clarify a few things.

The first is the most obvious, and that is it Death Stranding 2 will be a new generation game, which means we won’t see it on the PS4. On the plus side, Hideo Kojima will be able to consider much more ambitious development and implementation from a technical point of view, as it will not have to take over the limitations of the Sony veteran console.

On the other hand, it is also clear that Death Stranding 2 is still a few years after its launch. Nothing specific, but I remember that Reedus himself said that the process of capturing the movement of the original took two to three years to complete, so it is likely that this second part will be at least in a few years.

Death Stranding was released in November 2019 and despite the criticism it has received, it is true that it deserves to be considered a good game. It is a risky bet that has very boring moments, but in the end, when it is evaluated as a whole, is looming like a game that is obviously on a different level both for its approach and for its history, and in addition it has an excellent technical invoice for both graphic quality and optimization.

What can we expect from Death Stranding 2?

We have no official information other than what Kojima said a few years ago, but it is possible. make an estimate quite reliable when I see what happened to the first part and what we know about Death Stranding 2 at the moment.

The fact that this will be a new generation game clearly shows this we can expect a significant jump on the graphics leveland that it is very likely to rely on state-of-the-art technologies, including ray tracing and the most popular scaling techniques (DLSS, FSR and XeSS).

You can also expect and good optimization and similar game approach, Unless Kojima decides to make drastic changes in Death Stranding 2. It would not be normal given that the second parts always keep the focus of the originals, but knowledge of the Japanese is something we cannot completely rule out.

I think the development of Death Stranding 2 began in mid-2020, because then Reedus himself confirmed that he was involved in another project with Kojima. If this is the case, and given the development time that the original took, it is likely that it will be released between the end of 2023 and the middle of 2024.