Kojima also mentions that because of this incident (ZOE HD) he canceled the project for the sequel(ZOE3), and he disband the team on the project. He wants to hear from the fans again (with the patch/new version).
There were some important bits censored out on the radio, and the tone was not super serious so I don't know how true it is about ZOE3
I don't think Kojima would nonchalantly drop that in a podcast. They'd probably just never mention Ender's Project ever again if it was canceled.