{"id":47810,"date":"2025-05-09T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T03:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47810"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T03:03:04","slug":"death-stranding-2-on-the-beachs-new-plate-gates-could-allow-endless-sequels-but-kojima-doesnt-plan-on-making-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/death-stranding-2-on-the-beachs-new-plate-gates-could-allow-endless-sequels-but-kojima-doesnt-plan-on-making-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Stranding 2: On the Beach&#8217;s new Plate Gates could allow endless sequels, but Kojima doesn&#8217;t plan on making more\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/hideo-kojima-seems-excited-for-norman-reeduss-arrival-in-japan-for-comic-con-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norman Reedus lookalike<\/a> Sam Porter Bridges will be leaving the United Cities of America (UCA) and bringing his porting services to Mexico and Australia in <strong>Death Stranding 2: On the Beach<\/strong>. When asked how the legendary porter would travel halfway around the world, director Hideo Kojima revealed a new piece of in-game technology called \u201cPlate Gates.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1351\" height=\"760\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1351px) 100vw, 1351px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-001.jpg\" alt=\"Death Stranding 2: On the Beach\" class=\"wp-image-47814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-001.jpg 1351w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202505\/41204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Famitsu<\/a>, Kojima says that Mexico was chosen as a location because of its proximity to the UCA. In Death Stranding 2, Sam comments that the events leading to the Mexico journey could be seen as an invasion, prompting the developers to approach the setting differently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia is just as interesting, as Kojima chose to feature the continent because of its similarities to North America\u2019s geography:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted a land that spreads from east to west like the American continent and is close to the sea in the north and south. It&#8217;s also about size. The Eurasian continent is too large. I chose Australia because it has a similar sense of distance to the North American continent.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1349\" height=\"756\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1349px) 100vw, 1349px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-002.jpg\" alt=\"Death Stranding 2: On the Beach\" class=\"wp-image-47813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-002.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-002-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250508-47810-002-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As North America and Australia aren\u2019t exactly neighboring continents, Kojima created the Plate Gates. These gates allow Sam and company to travel long distances, even more so than Fragile\u2019s ability to jump between locations and Fragile Express\u2019s ships featured in the first Death Stranding. Kojima remarks that while Plate Gates could potentially allow him to create endless sequels set in Death Stranding\u2019s apocalyptic world, he currently has no plans on making more entries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/hideo-kojima-wants-to-make-the-kind-of-games-aliens-will-call-cool-centuries-from-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kojima Productions is also working<\/a> on the upcoming Hideo Kojima-Jordan Peele collaboration horror game OD and a stealth action game tentatively titled \u201cPhysint,\u201d Kojima fans have a lot to look forward to outside of Death Stranding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kojimaproductions.jp\/en\/death-stranding-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Death Stranding 2: On the Beach<\/a> is set to release on PlayStation 5 on June 26.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hideo Kojima added Plate Gates to Death Stranding 2: On the Beach to allow Sam and company to traverse the long distance between the UCA and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":47812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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