"Double its budget in revenue on the first day" would mean nothing, even of it was true, which it's not. The game most likely needed to earn Konami double its budget to break even. And publishers get half (or less then half) of game sales at retail.
The idea that the development of the Fox engine somehow excuses the budget is a fale one. Honestly Konami didn't need a custom engine, it's not a cost effective solution for such a company.
That Adobe report was not accurate. Hell, the $80 million budget number is not a fact.
It was Adobe making a guess, they didn't have access to any particularly special information. Even if you just go off public sources, that number isn't really possible.
V was an unfinished mess and I think people put too much stock in how much Kojima does, these games take hundreds of people to make it isn't all just thev vision of one person.
Wasn't the idea that they can now port games efficiently(ps3, ps4, pc etc)? Its not Kojima's fault they canceled all the games and decided not to use what most people agree was a great engine. They sold Ground Zeroes for fucking $40, added paid dlc and microtransactions to TPP. But we're supposed to believe that Kojima was sinking Konami when the game's budget was in line with a lot of AAA games?
Ugh, alright man.
It being a good engine is irrelevant to the fact that, if Konami continued publishing titles at the rate they were, or even increased it, it would have been more cost effective to license an engine.
Do you have any proof? How much did it need to sell then?
_/¯ ...that played like a beautiful dream. ¯_(ツ
It's not even the worst game in the series.
Fair enough. I've heard people that work with him describe him as very hands on (can't find the interviews). painfully, so.
Of course it takes hundreds of people to develop games; that much is obvious. Yet, in spite of that, his games have his unmistakable personal stamp on them. All the disparate elements are brought together and they still bear his distinctive voice. I think its hard to argue that he is not the 'author' of his work, since its so recognisable. It took people, what, 5 seconds to see through the first trailer for TPP/Moby Dick Games and know it was Kojima. Why is that, do you think...?
The people that work on his projects, their contributions, their efforts etc. cannot be understated, but the reason they are working on it and their work even makes it in the final project is because they fit the director's vision for the game. He directs their skills, after all
Honestly, just watching the extras on the MGS4 bonus dvd or Document of MGS2 should tell you. Yes, he doesn't make the game entirely by himself, duh. But he puts in far more work than a lot of directors going by whats been said.JULIEN MERCERON TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH HIDEO KOJIMA said:
You're taking me stating Kojima wasted company time and money as "MGSV was a waste of time and money." This is incorrect.
3 out of my top five Metal Gear games have been done without Kojima.
