Death Stranding 2 is filled with all types of ridiculous cameos, however one of the crucial weird inclusions is extraordinarily widespread Japanese-speaking vtuber Usada Pekora. Even although it is no shock at this level to see Hideo Kojima discover a option to insert his favourite celebrities into his video games, the CEO of the corporate Pekora streams for is aiming to have many extra collabs sooner or later.
Speaking to PC Gamer in a latest interview (by means of a translator), the CEO of Cover, the corporate that owns vtuber company Hololive, Motoaki Tanigo, stated introducing vtubers to avid gamers is a giant purpose proper now.
Hololive’s Japanese vtubers present up in video games and different media very often. Inugami Korone has official DLC for Sonic Frontiers and Hoshimachi Suisei performs a track in Gundam GQuuuuuuX. On the English-speaking aspect, nonetheless, they don’t seem to be as widespread. Tanigo says he needs to “have such collaborations in the same capacity in the US as well.”
He stated the explosion of vtubers within the West has expanded the viewers from simply anime followers and that collaborations just like the one with Death Stranding 2 assist Hololive “reach a wider audience of people who wouldn’t come across vtubers.”
Cover not too long ago opened up an office in the U.S. to assist make these connections with sport builders and publishers extra usually.
Part of this push towards gaming may even embrace streaming on Twitch, which he says wasn’t a precedence earlier than as a result of it isn’t tremendous widespread in Japan. “We built up our fan base mainly on YouTube up to this point, but as we want to hit a gaming audience, it’s very likely that we will focus more on Twitch in the future,” he stated.
Tanigo says that Hololive will “look toward having more talent that can play games that are popular in the US,” like aggressive FPS video games. The purpose, as I perceive it, is to have Hololive vtubers domesticate an viewers tied to particular genres or video games like every other steamer on Twitch and to let that result in sponsorships and collabs sooner or later.
Does that imply we will see vtuber skins in Call of Duty? It seems like Tanigo would not say no to that, and by the seems to be of it, neither would Activision. My hope is that after they do present up it is as inexplicable as delivering pizza to a bunny woman.