Kojima Productions to Release Actual Wearable Death Stranding 2 Exoskeleton in Latest Collab

If you ever request to marque similar Sam Porter and hike done tricky terrain portion lugging hefty cargo, Kojima Productions virtually has your back, oregon successful this lawsuit your knees. Hideo Kojima's workplace is partnering with exoskeleton shaper Dnsys to merchandise an authoritative Death Stranding 2 On The Beach constricted variation exoskeleton to supply genu support. The astonishment collaboration was revealed connected Kojima Productions’ authoritative X accounts successful some Japanese and English.

Back connected November 8, Kojima Productions’ Japanese and English X accounts teased the collaboration nether the cryptic tagline: "A caller acquisition that bridges the crippled and the existent satellite is coming soon." This prompted puzzled users to conjecture everything from a headset to immoderate benignant of gaming chair, with immoderate clocking that the zoomed-in pictures bore immoderate resemblance to Sam’s supportive exoskeleton.

As revealed successful Kojima Productions’ much caller X post, the enigma merchandise turned retired to beryllium an existent exoskeleton, made successful collaboration with exoskeleton shaper Dnsys, which worked with Kojima Productions' creation manager Yoji Shinkawa to marque it look existent to the game.

"We designed this exoskeleton with the aforesaid passionateness and precision arsenic if it were built for the satellite of Death Stranding,” said Shinkawa. “Every item was refined to bring the game’s futuristic imaginativeness into reality, creating thing Sam himself mightiness wear." The exoskeleton is battery-powered, and adjacent features lights that amusement however overmuch foodstuff it has left, conscionable similar successful Death Stranding. No Bridge Baby included, but that's astir apt conscionable arsenic well.

Although useful for Sam Porter cosplays, it is besides a functional and superior portion of equipment. According to the Dnsys website, the Death Stranding 2 exoskeleton enhances little assemblage spot and protects the genu joints by offloading the user's assemblage weight, benignant of mimicking the game's load-balancing strategy successful existent life. In summation to helping you hike miles further, the merchandise statement adjacent boasts that you volition “instantly consciousness up to 44 pounds lighter,” which mightiness beryllium utile erstwhile successful denial astir however overmuch you ate post-Christmas.

The Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Limited Edition Exoskeleton volition beryllium disposable globally from December 2. No connection connected the terms yet, but Dnsys is giving distant 3 of them done a originative competition, details of which tin beryllium recovered astatine the bottommost of the merchandise page.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.