'Death Stranding: Director's Cut' walking onto Mac

Hideo Kojima

Gaming luminary Hideo Kojima was brought in to WWDC 2023 to confirm "Death Stranding: Director's Cut:" will be coming to the Mac in the future.

After promoting the macOS Sonoma gaming changes, Apple took a moment to highlight a major title heading onto Mac. "Death Stranding: Director's Cut" will be landing on the platform via the Mac App Store in the future.

Taking to the virtual stage, Hideo Kojima said "We are now entering a new era for gaming on the Mac," mentioning the "modern rendering pipeline and the amazing graphical fidelity delivered by MetalFX Upscaling."

"Death Stranding" tasks the player as a "Porter," an individual who must travel across a ravaged country, connecting places together and delivering supplies on a massive adventure.

Kojima added the game will be available via the Mac App Store for preorder soon, with a release slated for later in 2023.

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4 Comments

michelb76 692 comments · 8 Years

About 1 year ago

It's a start I guess. But this game was a snoozefest on the PC. Hope it sells well enough to rekindle mac gaming.

Japhey 1772 comments · 6 Years

About 1 year ago

It’s not the greatest game ever, but I still almost bought it on sale for PS5 the other day. Now I think I’ll wait and make this my first ever Mac game.

darkvader 1146 comments · 15 Years

About 1 year ago

Can we just have a new SimCity and a new Age of Empires instead?

This thing looks boring.

Marvin 15335 comments · 18 Years

About 1 year ago

michelb76 said:

It's a start I guess. But this game was a snoozefest on the PC. Hope it sells well enough to rekindle mac gaming.

They'd need to add new vehicles like a hover bike or proper jet pack. It takes far too long to do anything interesting running across a large map or driving a land bike across rocks.

Hideo Kojima has a strange way of designing games. They are so slow to play out. There's an article saying he wanted to have a mission in a game that would take two weeks to complete:

https://kotaku.com/hideo-kojima-metal-gear-boss-battle-solid-3-1849527921

Death Stranding has a median completion time of 40 hours:

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/38061

Resident Evil Village is 9 hours:

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/80038

This kind of game design works for him because his full-time job is games but most people are trying to fit the game into their free time, maybe 4-6 hours per week. 10 weeks to finish a narrative-driven game is way too much.

The best thing he could do for this game is introduce a casual mode that allows completing it in a reasonable timeframe.

They could also make a TV series out of the story. The cutscenes alone are 7 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuIaNTHrEDQ

If the rendering was polished up, that could be cut into a 10 episode Apple TV series.