This sounds like Kojima productions going second party or something similar to From Software doing Blodborne or the situation with Freedom Wars. Wich i'm super OK with it.
In the future Kojipro will be able to do games with other companies if they so desire, just like Insomniac.
Anyway this are great news all around, Kojima and co. are free to finally start developing wathever game they so desire.
Hey FF.
This is pretty great news isn't it. Our saviour, Kojima, doing his thing again.
After 9 months on ice, a console exclusive with PlayStation, should be the perfect warm up.
This is really cool news. We won't be seeing anything for 3-4 years, but locking down Kojima gets rid of him being a draw for someone else if nothing else.
There has been no huge flop. I am talking about the projected sales ceiling of how a game could perform vs. the reality of what the publisher was willing to do with it. Have you seen a TV ad for MGS V since september? I have not. TotalBiscuit can get mad all he wants, but the speculative lack of Kojima games on PC in the future is Konami's doing. They already have an engine in place, and it is now going to the digital dustbin alongside Renderware.
*sigh* Microsoft has nothing to do with this. Just because the two are rivals... This console war stuff has no place here.
Regardless, really glad for Kojima and co. I hope that they were able to snatch as many of the many talented folks of Kojima Productions OG as possible before exiting the front door of Konami. I've always been in support of the production company at large, and I hope as many got out of Konami's horrible environment as humanly possible. Kojima needs his people, and I think they'd want to go where he does!
Man, this is really the year of dreams. Just this week, System Shock 3, a completely unexpected holiday surprise in Jontron's most recent video (real spoilers
Arin <3
), and Kojima forming Kojima Productions from the ashes is just too much. I really have big problems with MGSV, but I've come to the conclusion that 60% were Konami's rushing of development and directorial meddling, and 40% was Kojima's own fault with some wack-a-doo ideas and more crucially extreme MGS fatigue. I truly believe now that he is completely free from the MGS IP, that he can make a truly excellent game!
A happy creator is a good creator! Welcome back Kojima!
PS: Seriously though Kojima, MGSV had some problems. I really wish you well though, and I hope your brain is now free to no longer be shackled to a canon you very clearly were tired of! I am excited for your new original IP!
PPS: Obviously Kojima ain't reading this though. But still, wanted to get my thoughts out there.
What a glorious day!
Really, that Jontron thing and this are incredible.
I'm a huge MGS fan and I'm very very happy. Kojima can finally make something else. He was pretty much done with the franchise after MGS2. It's been way too long. Let MGS die please, its over.
Was this supposed to read Sony and not MS? Because I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what Microsoft has done lately to even be considered on a roll.
Yeah, the man's artwork is phenomenal. It'd be similar to what happened with the team behind FFXII. Many of them left SE but have since worked with each other on numerous titles.
Ace in the hole for Sony and KojiPro. So sudden too, thought it was going to take more time for Kojima to establish a business partnership, but anyways, just excellent news all around.
Fuck exclusives in general and fuck excluding large portions of audience from being able to play the game. In an ideal world, one in which we are not living in, all games should be on all hardware that can support it, performance and control-wise.
I mean even if this game comes to PC, it is a shame Xbone owners who do not have PC or PS4 will not be able to play it.
It was super awesome when MGS5 was announced multiplatform, wish all Kojima's games going forward could stay that way.
I'm a huge MGS fan and I'm very very happy. Kojima can finally make something else. He was pretty much done with the franchise after MGS2. It's been way too long. Let MGS die please, its over.
I'm a huge MGS fan and I'm very very happy. Kojima can finally make something else. He was pretty much done with the franchise after MGS2. It's been way too long.
He believes the PC version will suffer cuz it'll be developed first on console which is weird cuz I could have sworn MGSV ran great if not better on PC.
Fuck exclusives in general and fuck excluding large portions of audience from being able to play the game. In an ideal world, one in which we are not living in, all games should be on all hardware that can support it, performance and control-wise.
I mean even if this game comes to PC, it is a shame Xbone owners who do not have PC or PS4 will not be able to play it.
I gotta imagine he has to completely start from scratch as anything he thought of previously is owned by Konami. Im sure that means he'll use UE4 or something, but yeah a couple years minimum before a game comes out
I'm a MGS fan, and hearing Kojima say over and over again that he was steping out of MGS since MGS2 makes me really be happy that he is out of that finally.
I have no expectations for Kojima Production's next game, just make it good and make it yours
fuck focus testing.
Edit: BTW, that logo screams Yoji Shinkawa, are there any confirmation that they are still together? they are like a couple at this point...just like the best bromance, Otacon+Snake.