Kojima: "Definitely pressure" for MGS5

By Tom Bramwell Published 16 April, 2009

Although what's next is still up in the air.

Hideo Kojima has admitted that there is "definitely pressure" to continue working on the Metal Gear Solid series, even after he repeatedly said that he saw last year's Guns of the Patriots as his last instalment.

"Sure, there is definitely pressure," he told Kikizo.

"We don't belong wholly to Konami, so that pressure might be lighter, but since Kojima Productions is a part of Konami and Konami does the business side of things, yeah, I feel pressure there, that there's a need for it to be a successful, ongoing series."

Kojima also confused the matter slightly at the Game Developers Conference last month when he described his final mission as "The Next MGS".

At the time he said that he wanted to approach the game using a mixture of Japanese and Western development philosophies.

"I feel it's time to look outside of Japan," he elaborated in the Kikizo interview. "You know - what can we absorb, what can we copy from these Western developers? What kind of steps should we take as Kojima Productions to change for the better and remain a strong global studio? That's what we're thinking right now."

As for what Kojima is working on, there's still no more word than there was last month when he said, "An official game announcement will be made at E3."

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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    "You know - what can we absorb, what can we copy from these Western developers? What kind of steps should we take as Kojima Productions to change for the better and remain a strong global studio? That's what we're thinking right now."

    Metal Gears of War all but confirmed :)

  • Widge #2 3 years ago

    A franchise I'm happy to see carry on. I don't care what it appears on as long as it keeps on coming!

  • seasidebaz #3 3 years ago

    Solid Snake skin for Fallout 3

  • anomagnus #4 3 years ago

    well, i;d be happy not to have a 20 hour tobacco advertisement, with pointless plot elements, insanely stupid controls, and a fucking shite story

    MGS 1 was great, 2 was ok, 3 was okish, and 4 is wank

    the quality continues to drop. Its like resi 5, Japanese developers cant keep it up, they're still making the same games they made 10 years ago, with a bit more gloss. There's been no attempt to evolve.

  • Phishfood #5 3 years ago

    Sseing as how sucessful MGS was I am more interested to see what else he has planned.

  • MasterNameless #6 3 years ago

    Yeah, as much as I've enjoyed MGS over the years, it did feel like they've closed the book on it. I, too, would like to see a new IP from Kojima.

  • Solvalou #7 3 years ago

    I want Kojima and Suda ro revive Snatcher, pretty please!

  • BobsUncle #8 3 years ago

    I imagine that the interior of his house is covered in mirrors.

  • GamesConnoisseur #9 3 years ago

    Looking outside of Japan you will see X360 (also Wii for non hd market!) having greater presence and weight on Game Publishers' consideration! Of course there are Games devs happily ignoring either but not many publishers will be prepared to afford to not to take two or three multi platforms route!
    Edited by GamesConnoisseur at 16/04/09 @ 16:03