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[Averon]

Whelp. The MGS series will start its downward spiral, I guess. Guess I'm done with Konami after MGSV.

 

[dark10x]

That's the end of Konami officially (as a games company, I mean). The end has been in sight for years but now it's truly over.

Hopefully they sell off their IPs.

 

[Nirolak]

It's for the best.

Konami is a toxic company.

Things will only be better for their former employees when they no longer have to be shackled to them.

 

[Soma]

damn konami

 

[jbttwin]

Holy shit!

 

[Dahbomb]

Kojima is too good for Konami anyway.

 

[Durante]

What is Konami without Kojima?

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A miserable little pile of secrets?

 

[DarkLegion]

This is crazy..

 

[Midas]

The end of an era. Let's just hope he doesn't go mobile or something stupid.

 

[RusselUp]

Sucks to hear but really interested in seeing his next moves without the Metal Gear branding.

 

[wbEMX]

Fuck. So this really will be the end for MGS. Let's hope that MGS V will be the proper send-off that the fans deserved.

Thanks, Kojima.

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

That's it.

End of an era here, folks. On to bigger and better things, Kojima!

R.I.P. once and for all, Konami.

 

[legacyzero]

FUCK.

This is how you treat Kojima after all the fucking paper he made you, Konami??

 

[Euron]

Isn't he pretty much all Konami has left? Sad to see him go. MGS will probably continue in some form but it looks like MGS5 is the last true MGS.

And I wonder what this means for Silent Hills? They can't just cancel it.

 

[kadotsu]

I wished this was an industry in which everyone of this talented team would be picked up instantly so their final day at office could end something like this:

 

[backflip10019]

Wow. Just, wow.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

The one thing Konami had, treated like shit. This company has fallen so far from grace.

I hope Kojima and Co find a better workplace. Metal Gear is going to be awful here soon if Kojima isn't working on it.

 

[inpHilltr8r]

Whoa! What the hell happened?

Massive budget overruns and project delays.

Would be my guess.

 

[Occam]

Time for Kojima to make a new Snatcher game.

 

[Archaix]

Makes sense to me. Konami made Kojima. Without them, what would he be? They'll be fine. They don't need him. They don't need anything! They have...this ashtray. And this paddle game. That's all they need. And this remote control...

 

[Tom Nook]

End of an Era

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Pick them up Nintendo.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Konami will surely retain right to MGS. Expect tons of non-Kojima MGS games in the future. It's all they've got anymore.

If Kojipro is disbanding, I don't want anything to do with non-Kojima or non-Platinum Metal Gears

 

[maquiladora]

'Anonymous sources'

You think gamespot are going to name who told them this?

 

[Fanuilos]

Took long enough for the exclusivity hounds to show up

NINTENDO, BUY EVERYTHING

No, hire Kojima on. Give him his own team and let him go wild.

 

[Femmeworth]

Goddamn, some real shit must have happened behind the scenes.

 

[Shalashaska]

Welp.

GG Konami.

 

[Alienous]

Sony would move heaven and Earth to pick Kojima up and give him a team. Microsoft too.

 

[Coconut]

Good for KojiPro seems like the last thing Konami wants to do these days is make games. With any luck Kojima and staff get rolled into Platnium Games or something like that.

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

Wow.

Who owns the rights to MGS? I presume Konami?

 

[Welfare]

Fuck Konami.

 

[Devilgunman]

Fuck you Konami. Sony please pick him up.

 

[WickedLaharl]

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

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Konami's been transitioning out of video games for a while.

I don't expect that this is something they're going to be that broken up about.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Holy shit

HOLY SHIT

END OF AN ERA

 

[Brydo0]

Guess he really meant it when he said this was his last MGS.

 

[evilromero]

What about Silent Hills?

Such a shame if the game is axed because of this. It could have been the best thing to happen to the series in a long time.

 

[Fancy Clown]

I think of this as a good thing

Imagine all the awesome Kojima games were gonna get

At the cost of SIlent Hills though...

 

[Khrysler Jerikho]

WOW.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Well, RIP Konami I guess

 

[Grisby]

Damn. I was holding off commenting in the other thread.

End of an era for Kojiima and Konami.

What about Silent Hills?

Lol, yeah.

 

[RockTurtle]

is it bad i'm more saddened at the prospect of no more Zone of the Enders?

 

[5taquitos]

Hopefully this leads to a KojiPro independent studio using their all-new XOF Engine.

 

[Pachimari]

Even after what I have written in the other thread, this is depressing. Time flies, but it'll be hard to accept.

There goes an awesome Silent Hills, Zone of the Enders 3, and Metal Gear Solid remake.

 

[Tribes of Trusty]

I, for one, am excited for a non-MGS Kojima game, even if I love the series.

Spoiler

Sad if Silent Hills is nixed though.

 

[NeoGeoOwner]

I can't believe Konami is really doing all this. They are crazy.

 

[Wagram]

The hilarious thing is that this shit seems like something that would come out of a Hideo Kojima directed game.

 

[Nintendojitsu]

Kojima, Igarashi and Fujii to create new indie studio confirmed

 

[Gorillaz]

well he is Konami for the most part and I was honestly waiting for this shoe to drop for awhile

will be interesting seeing what happens to both parties after MGS V

 

[Woffls]

Shit, that's a lot worse than I was expecting. Kojima will certainly take some people to a new studio, or an existing one. Not sure if he would go straight to another big publisher, though. Depends how much freedom he can be afforded.

Sony could really do with getting him on-board, but I don't know if they're willing to throw that kind of money around for studios at the moment.

 

[Majanew]

Please let Kojima take Silent Hills with him. Kojima's / Del Torro's Silent Hills was one of my most wanted games after playing P.T.