It may seem clear that a game from the developer of Metal Gear Solid will be commercially successful, but that was not always the case. According to some, Death Stranding was a failure when it originally came out. Sony was apparently displeased with the game’s sales, according to one ResetEra post from 2020, with the author of the article stating 3 million copies of Death Stranding were lying in warehouses as of March of that year. But then the game’s critical reevaluation started, aided first by the epidemic and then by its debut on PC. Many individuals found an experience in Death Stranding that helped them make sense of a society that had transformed overnight, and the game had sold 5 million copies by July 2021.
