Metal Gear creator and longtime pal of the PlayStation, Hideo Kojima, has told Japanese gaming bible, Famitsu, that 2009 will see his company starting 'from Zero' in an attempt to compete globally.
Kojima tells the outlet, "We're currently reviewing everything - from the team structure to tools and our staff - in order to make Kojima Productions a team that can challenge foreign creators and software houses."
With every aspect of the business under review - and with gamers outside of Japan in focus - this reads very much like a veiled hint that Kojima could be looking to Microsoft and the Xbox 360. In September last year, a Square Enix made the same nod to globalisation. He (or she) told The Financial Times, "The Japanese games industry is standing at a crossroads, and whether it will stay at the centre of the global games industry, or whether it will lose that position, is now unclear."
Of course, that was after it had signed up with Microsoft to release Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 in territories outside of Japan.
Translation via Develop Magazine
Kojima tells the outlet, "We're currently reviewing everything - from the team structure to tools and our staff - in order to make Kojima Productions a team that can challenge foreign creators and software houses."
With every aspect of the business under review - and with gamers outside of Japan in focus - this reads very much like a veiled hint that Kojima could be looking to Microsoft and the Xbox 360. In September last year, a Square Enix made the same nod to globalisation. He (or she) told The Financial Times, "The Japanese games industry is standing at a crossroads, and whether it will stay at the centre of the global games industry, or whether it will lose that position, is now unclear."
Of course, that was after it had signed up with Microsoft to release Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 in territories outside of Japan.
Translation via Develop Magazine
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deleted 6 Jan 2009 02:44
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Ive lost interest in MGS 4 on 360 now what i would like tho, is MGS on arcade in HD glory and revamped graphics, kinda like snake eater for GC.
Joji 6 Jan 2009 11:39
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haritori wrote:
Ive lost interest in MGS 4 on 360 now what i would like tho, is MGS on arcade in HD glory and revamped graphics, kinda like snake eater for GC.
Kojima is talented, but his loyalty issues of old are what has put the MGS series in the grinder, for me anyway, as much as I love its charm and OTT manganess. MGS could be on DS (the original PS1 game), and 360, but Konami are still caught in this japanese loyalty trap (or it seems so). I'm surprise such a trap hasn't killed them, and yet I find it very odd that MGS graces iPhone before DS, but shows how mental they are (how many Square games are on DS again, then go compare that to Konami games, and so begs the question, why no DS MGS yet?)
Kojima's imagination is fast becoming very Akira like, bursting out of his natural form into some overgrown Tetsuo body absorbing behemoth. Didn't he recently say soon Blu Ray wasn't going to be enough room for him to make games? Maybe he needs some more room inside his head for more ideas. Someone, pass him a bicycle pump. Lol.
If he does something on 360, I think I'd like it to be something new though (ZoE3 would be nice, mind). Leave MGS4 to PS3, and give 360 its own gig.