This is bullshit. I don't even know what the hell are they thinking over at konami. You want out of the gaming industry, even though Pro Evo and MGS still bring in a lot of money? Fine, just do the right thing and sell the IPs. I'm sure more than a few publishers would love to get their hands on them, SH included. They would at least do something with them, instead of letting them wither and die, like SH has been for so many years. It's a damn shame really.
Kojima/Konami fallout must have been rather serious for them to just scrap this. I mean, PT had an overwhelming positive feedback, it had 3 important guys on board, it would revitalize a semi-dead franchise most surely and they scrap it over some beef with Kojima.
Now I'm a bit worried about TPP. The game is too far off in development to be cancelled, and I think not even Konami would be dumb enough to do so, but what will it imply for the game's content? Come Sep 1st, will we have a rushed product on our hands? Will it be censored in any shape or form? Even if it is, we'll never actually know, unless someone on the inside spills the beans on what might have been added/removed/replaced. That's what bothers me. That and the fact that I had a feeling that this collab would have made for a stellar comeback for SH, on the same caliber RE4 had back in the day.
This is just wrong. Unfortunately just will just sit their asses on the great IPs they still have and do jack shit with them. Konami cares for cash, like every other company right? Then just sell the IPs. It's better than to just let them die slowly.
And I'm sure this has been said before, but one more is never enough: konami, go fornicate yourself.