Support NeoGAF

[Vibranium]

i hope the mobile bubble will get you soon, konami.

i loved your devs. now fuck off with your dictatorship.

Uh, Konami has very successful gambling operations and health clubs. Even if mobile bursts they'll be fine.

Now I wish they would sell or license out their IPs, Kojima could have MGS and the Fox Engine back, but that's a pipe dream.

 

[Augemitbutter]

Uh, Konami has very successful gambling operations and health clubs. Even if mobile bursts they'll be fine.

Now I wish they would sell or license out their IPs, Kojima could have MGS and the Fox Engine back, but that's a pipe dream.

that's well-known by now. they deserve the worst nonetheless.

 

[NotLiquid]

Tangentially related I suppose but because of the Kojima/Konami experience (and THQ by extension), Guillermo Del Toro is quitting video games (though the statement itself is a bit more humorous than it sounds).

 

[PooBone]

I take that to mean he's escorted by security to his office when the day starts and is expected to stay there until he leaves.

They're basically viewing him as a fired employee who could end up tampering with things, but still employing him.

Pretty much this. He'll be free after Dec 1st or Dec 31st, can't remember which. Either way I'ma play the shit out of his game before he breaks out.

 

[Cave Johnson]

I've got the feeling Kojima saw the writing on the wall since the beginning of the development and he went: "Fuck it, I'm going to make the biggest, riskiest, most expensive game I can before they kick me out of the picture."

 

[Angel_DvA]

Wow Konami, I have no word...

 

[bacardi]

damn shame.

 

[crimilde]

I take that to mean he's escorted by security to his office when the day starts and is expected to stay there until he leaves.

They're basically viewing him as a fired employee who could end up tampering with things, but still employing him.

Oh wow. Can't they just let him work from home or something? This is humiliating and awful.

Wtf. #FucKonami, seriously.

 

[Rymuth]

I take that to mean he's escorted by security to his office when the day starts and is expected to stay there until he leaves.

They're basically viewing him as a fired employee who could end up tampering with things, but still employing him.

Goddamn...where is the diginity

 

[dezzy8]

80 million dollars!? I would've fired his ass too. Could make 2-3 games with that money.

 

[M.D]

80 million dollars!? I would've fired his ass too. Could make 2-3 games with that money.

What if this 80 million dollar game makes more money than all of your 3 games combined

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Weird. Could you imagine a bunch of Hollywood producers locking in a famous director because he went over budget?

 

[Imbarkus]

Weird. Could you imagine a bunch of Hollywood producers locking in a famous director because he went over budget?

Yeah the difference between Japanese game development corporate culture and U.S. unionized movie production is pretty vast.

I wonder if exposure to the latter informed Kojima's restlessness with the former. He should just immigrate to the U.S. He could pretty much name his price and list his demands to start a studio here.

Console bidness dun dried up o'er yonder.

 

[Sickboy007]

Weird. Could you imagine a bunch of Hollywood producers locking in a famous director because he went over budget?

Could you even imagine a western video game publisher doing that to a director? What happened to West and Zampella pales in comparison, and they likely got millions when they settled out of court.

 

[Lucumo]

A new Momotaro Electric Railway game? Awesome.

 

[Shikoba]

Really too bad. On the flip side, Kojima has such a great game development history that I really hope he moves on and makes some new games after all this bull from Konami is over. I'd love some new Snatcher/Policnauts-like games. All he has to do is start a Kickstarter and watch the money pour in.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

I see only the last item there as extravagent. Hayter would have been great.

Japanese companies seem less into the middleware/engine licensing business. I would think with all the engine dveelopment time this would be a logical source of revenue to explore, even to western and European customers. Can someone explain why this is not so?

? I don't follow. tri-Ace's recent engine was the only one I can think of, and it had no takers. Even in a world where Unity, UE4, and (yeah I know) Crysis's latest, there's the language barrier (the same one that went the other direction 10 years ago with U3, delaying that disemination).

 

[Sumio Mondo]

80 million dollars!? I would've fired his ass too. Could make 2-3 games with that money.

If anything, it shows how disconnected they were from Kojima and doing a bad job running their company if they honestly didn't know how much the game cost...

 

[Imbarkus]

? I don't follow. tri-Ace's recent engine was the only one I can think of, and it had no takers. Even in a world where Unity, UE4, and (yeah I know) Crysis's latest, there's the language barrier (the same one that went the other direction 10 years ago with U3, delaying that disemination).

Is Fox Engine in Japanese? I remember reading some time ago that most programming languages were in English, in terms of the IFs, Ors, and ELSEs.

An engine in Japanese would indeed be hard to license somewhere outside of Japan. And the market for it in Japan, well that's gone, isn't it?

 

[Saiyu]

Oh I've been on the receiving end of "suits" recently and can only sympathise with Kojima.

*MGS3salute.