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Kojima will no longer be a Konami executive from April 1st + KojiPro is no more?
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Konami HQ can get fucked if they relocated and hired a tonne of people for LA and then shutter it, post-launch. It would also destroy the future (patches, updates, additional content) of MGS5 Online if duties aren't passed to another studio.
For the record, the relevant part of the tweet is:
"This month Konami will go through a big restructuring, and it looks like September's MGS5 might be KojiPro's last work (team dissolved!?)"
Like never never.
It was just the two names in the end of the demo, and Del Toro is a producer himself. It could just be co-produced.
Seven Force
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It'll probably have a bright future as the engine for the PES games and nothing else.
Kojima is one of the few big names of the Japanese industry that has little affiliation with Nintendo. Other producing the (amazing and oft disregarded) Boktai series, the two simply don't have much shared history. Microsoft could be a decent fit if they want to expand operations in Japan, but are you really curious why people would rather see one of Japan's most legendary directors stay with a company that has a tradition in the Japanese school of design and market rather than not?
Notice that I'm not saying that he wouldn't do a great job in Nintendo or Microsoft, but it's beyond me how anyone could question Sony's being the best choice out of the three.
FlutterPuffs
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Good thing they're not (yet). Worst thing they can do is just jump on this without proper fact checking.
Keighley should get him on his next podcast for an hour.
I can't believe this is happening
I'd be totally down for a Keighley podcast/interview but at the end of the day a simple explanation would be worth its weight in gold right now. I can understand a studio being renamed or Kojima stepping down from Executive level but removing all traces of him from MGSV and previous titles makes zero sense.
Until we get an explanation..
STANDING...
*weeps*
It seems like KojiPro is dead.
Unfortunate. This might actually spell doom for the franchise. No Kojima. No MGS
Oh, Konami will definitely try to keep MGS going, whether Kojima is there or not.
Relaxed Muscle
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Probably cause it's early on the west coast.
That's only if Konami give a shit.
Maybe they'll sell MGSV wholesale to another publisher.
Report on what? There's no info whatsoever and nothing makes sense. I mean, they're scrubbing his name from old games. That's either a trick or a nuclear (and legal) fallout.
This is my biggest fear, too. I've been waiting for the new MGO for around three years now... would hate for the post-launch support to get fucked because of something like this.
Mobile
I wish.
Nightengale
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I'm sure they will, but the franchise as we know it is effectively dead without Kojima.
Every site mentions him as director/writer/producer, but yeah, it seems he never actually came out and said as much.
Freedom = $1.05
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It says Kojima is will continue to work on Metal Gear, not necessarily that he will continue to work at Konami while working on Metal Gear.
Crimsonclaw111
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I hope those from the disbanded studio find new work. Would be awesome if they joined Platinum.
indigo-cyclops
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If this is actually true, well there goes Silent Hills... Yay.
TheKastorian
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I guess Hideo really meant it this time that his would be his last Metal Gear
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT| A game by Hideo Kojima
Lock it in, folks.
*thumbs up*
I like this. Please do this, even though I'm against subtitles.
Sony would be fucking stupid not to chase him down. His games are consistently some of their best system selling exclusives.
That will never come out.
UpDownLeftRight
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Is this real? So no Silent Hills anymore I guess. What's even the point of bothering with MGS5 anymore if the team is being dissolved 6 months before release? surely it's gonna be botched?
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Xpike
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Yeah but without Kojima the IP just won't have gather the same interest as before, it'll be seen as the crappy Direct to DVD spinoffs
GeNoMe
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Relaxed Muscle
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This is the best
LiquidSolid
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It's the same thing with every KojiPro game. "Please direct ZOE3, Kojima!" Never mind that it was Murata's series, not Kojima's.
Anyway, I wasn't going to jump to conclusions based on the original OP but wow at the updates. Sure looks like he's gone, hopefully to found a new studio that won't have all the Konami baggage. Took longer than I expected to be honest, he was the only credible part of the old Konami left.
KojiPro staff are konami employees.
No disbanding, same building.
This gets my vote.
I really don't think it would happen. Unless there's a radical shift within Konami, like cutting console altogether (won't happen), they won't shutter LA.
You don't open a studio unless you have at least a 5 year plan including growth and plans for multiple projects.
I'm more worried for everyone's jobs, but I think they should be safe.
I'd actually be more excited for someone else to take the reigns and show their vision. But, then again, I'm very much "over" Kojima.
Well from the looks of things there's no other choice.
"Both of these entities will be working on MGS properties"
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