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The footage may not be recent but it still good to keep up with what the developer says about his game. Keep an eye out in 2010.

Alot of people are wondering what Kojima’s next game is. The following article is from the Famitsu magazine and has been translated. It does give clues, but not very good ones.

1. (The Big Boss image is posted above)
Interviewer: “Is that Big Boss?”
Kojima: It’s a little different from XX
(or XXX’s next form is a little different)
Interviewer: “Whaaaattt? Different???”

2.
Kojima: I still can’t tell you what the title is, but this is the real deal. Put it this way, it’s part of the orthodox “Metal Gear Saga”
(The text below was mostly blocked out, but it talked about what timeframe the game is based in, and it appears that it’s across all time periods)

3.
Kojima: I want the game’s core to be aimed towards Japan, and released globally. XXX… It’s being made by MGS4 staff
Interviewer: That’s awesome!

4.
Kojima: The symbol on the cap of the old man (he did not say Big Boss) will be important
Interviewer: This symbol is different from the fox, it looks like a world map
Kojima: No just the mark, but the system of the game will be new!
Note: Kojima uses “This old man” a lot through the interview rather than referring to Big Boss

5.
Interviewer: It sounds interesting, but do you think people will understand it at all?
Kojima: I think people will understand

Well… Tried my best to translate it, but it’s so hard with all the blocked out text… bloody Kojima. That’s all I can do for now, maybe I’ll give it another go later

Summary:
Interestingly the old man in the cap might not be Big Boss, the story will be part of the main MGS saga and it will go through different time periods. New game system, and it’s being made by the staff from MGS4

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Hideo Kojima has revealed that Konami plan to make a number of announcements before the Game Developers Conference.

With regard to Mr Kojima, we have to keep things tight-lipped for now,

We will be making some announcements closer to GDC, so stay tuned

GDC starts on the 23rd of March. I wonder what the creator of the Metal Gear series is going to announce?

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With the new year merely a half dozen days under way, Hideo Kojima let know in an interview with Famitsu that this year will be a very important year to his studio.

That said, he is currently reviewing his staff and working structure to compete with ‘foreign creators’ as he steps in a new direction.

I’ve come to understand that the way we’ve made games up until now won’t translate globally, and I’ve come to think that I need to make Kojima Productions a team that can compete alongside the rest of the world

I’ve thought a lot about how Western games have been winning, looking it from a global perspective, and there are things that I’ve noticed. So 2009 will be a year of change, a year where we start from zero again

Though we are not sure how he thinks that Western games are winning. Metal Gear Solid 4 was chosen as ‘Game of the Year’ by many game sites and industry people. That surely doesn’t mean your losing.
By moving ‘west’ many have the feeling this is Hideo Kojima first step to creating a Xbox 360 game along side a PS3 version. The question that then arises, which will be the port or will they both be developed equally?

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Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has something up his sleeve and plans to reveal this ‘big’ reveal in a few weeks time. 1UP manage to speak with Kojima at the Spike Video Game Awards this past weekend, Kojima himself wouldn’t let them know what the teased Metal Gear sign means. A lot of people think it’s something to do with the Xbox 360 because of the colours while other people think an iPhone version of Metal Gear will appear.

No one knows for sure what the hell is going on. We will soon find out in a few weeks though.

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Hideo Kojima has revealed that he has three concepts for the next Metal Gear Solid game. MGS4 was meant to be his last game in the series but wasn’t MGS2 and MGS3? In an interview with 1UP, Kojima said that he wants to leave MGS5 to his younger staff.

“I would like to just make a new game, and the younger staff can work on the new MGS projects,”

“I have three concepts for MGS5 already. What would be ideal for me with MGS5, though, is that we don’t do those. If the team picks one of those concepts, I have to get involved again, which I don’t want to do.”

Kojima has stated that he wants to create a brand new game, something new for the industry.

“I want to create something new, and it’s difficult to explain since no one’s seen it before,”

“I don’t know if it would sell very well. I’ve been warming this up for a long time, and I keep thinking that I’ll try this idea. But ideas always change, so I really don’t know what the final outcome will be.”

Sounds like Kojima’s team is hard at work thinking of ideas for MGS5.

“There are already so many good [MGS5] ideas from the staff, so if we select one of those, that would be really good. At that point I could really rely on them and take the step back to be the producer, which is the ideal situation, I think.”

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In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Hideo Kojima the man behind the Metal Gear series discussed MGS4’s development, the importance of hardcore games.

Phil Harrison and Satoru Iwata have expressed the view that demand for expansive, epic titles like MGS4 is shrinking. What are your thoughts on that?

Kojima: I think that’s not happening. Even if that is a fact, I still think that there are gamers who love these epic games or hardcore games because some people still really live with games, and really receive something from games, and I regard them as real gamers. Now, as long as these gamers exist I feel a responsibility that someone has to do it, to create these games, so I’m not really worried. Besides if I, or someone else, keep bringing out these epic games, it might change the flow of the industry; people might realise that these are really fun games. And time ever changes, and the flow or demand will change, but if you just look at the current trend, and you see it shrinking and you just stop, it will just become zero, so I don’t think that is a wise decision to make.

There’s a huge user difference. I could back this up with GTA IV, which is a smash hit, and Call of Duty 4 was a smash hit and this season, Gears of War 2 will also probably be a smash hit, so that is proof that there are still gamers out there waiting for these epic games, and I think that will continue. I’m not saying casual gaming is bad, I think that casual games will continue as well as a trend, which is also good. But I think these will coexist.

Of course, Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy used to be exclusive to the PlayStation, and now they’re not. Do you think exclusivity is still important?

Kojima: I think it really depends on the title. With MGS4, there was a lot of thinking behind it when we were announcing the exclusive, season-wise and time-wise and Sony technology and hardware wise and so on. But our intention was, since we were always with the PlayStation for the Metal Gear series, I felt that the users also followed the PlayStation as well – I mean all the Metal Gear fans follow the PlayStation. So it was an obvious match to release MGS4 on the PS3. And if we decide PS3, why not optimise it to make the best of that hardware? That was our decision.
As I said, I think it really depends on the title.

Why do you think Metal Gear Solid sells so well in the West, compared to other Japanese-developed games that are vastly more popular in Japan?

Kojima: Honestly, I don’t know! But if you want my answer that I personally think, I don’t know if it’s correct or wrong, but maybe it’s because of my era – because of my age. When I was younger, what built me was always movies or novels or music from America or Europe. I didn’t grow up on Japanese movies and television only, I absorbed so many TV programmes of American and Europe; that’s what I watched. And the culture really came naturally to me when I was growing up, so when I have a game which is an output of myself, I feel that I put in more of that American or European essence that I absorbed when I was growing up. Maybe that is the reason why it sells more in Europe or America.

To give an example in my title, in MGS4 the main character is this old fogey, right? And he battles with a lot of old guys, and in Japan that would never ever sell. So this kind of sense that I have perhaps tingles the European or Western market more.

Read the whole interview here.

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has told Eurogamer that he looks forward to a day when people stop asking him about Metal Gear Solid 4 being ported over to the Xbox 360.

Kojima said:

“I’ve been doing a lot of interviews and stage shows, and half the questions are like ‘Will MGS4 be coming out on 360 or other formats?’, and in the near future I hope they’ll ask me about Metal Gear, about us, about our future projects, and will stop caring about the hardware,”

Kojima has said that he has not chosen to port MGS4 over to the X360 because it is optimised  for the PS3 and is probably not possible on the 360.

“But, you know, what kind of disturbs me sometimes, because a lot of people ask me about this PS3/360 question, is that it’s not about the hardware – I want people to look at the game itself. Sometimes I even feel like it should be on a PC so that people don’t ask me about hardware and platforms,”

Hideo Kojima answered a question about his future titles and where they will belong.

“If we’re talking about the future – not MGS4, but my future titles, if we’re referring to that – if the hardware technology rises then obviously, you know, it won’t be based on the hardware anymore. Probably I will first create the software and then, um, it’s a strange word to say, but port to other hardware if that technological ability rises in all areas.”

could this mean that the PS3 could be the lead platform and then ported over to the Xbox 360?

Hideo Kojima has told Eurogamer that it’s possible that the Metal Gear Acid games could be released on the Playstation Network. Nothing is in production yet.

Hideo Kojima said at the Games Convention 2008:

“I’ll say yes to that idea, but not because it is already running or anything,” Kojima told Eurogamer when asked about the possibility of porting the turn-based strategy titles to PSN.”

“I’ll say yes to that idea, but not because it is already running or anything,” Kojima told Eurogamer when asked about the possibility of porting the turn-based strategy titles to PSN”

It will most likely happen but not anytime soon.

Konami has readed their Leipzig line up and here’s the information:

Games
– PES 2009
– Silent Hill Coming Home (PS3, Xbox 360)
– Castlevania Judgement (Wii)
– Dancing Stage
– Rock Revolution
– Lost in Blue (Wii, NDS)
– Eledees: The Adventures of Kai and Zero (NDS)
– new releases

Stage shows + presentations
– Hideo Kojima (Will discuss Metal Gear Solid 4 and Metal Gear Online plans)
– Koji “IGA” Igarashi provides insight into the Castlevania series
– Thomas Hulett (Associate Producer) talks about Silent Hill Homecoming
– Rock Revolution presentation with Associate Producer Niais Taylor
– Dave Cox, responsible for product planning at Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH, own future developments in Konami Europe

I highly doubt we’ll be seeing any new major announcements, it’s too soon after Metal Gear Solid 4.

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There could be more chapters in Metal Gear Solid 4 because at the end of the game you may have noted some strange things such as “Voice of God: Hideo Kojima”.

Here’s an attempt of translating the rumor:

Attention, I stated with a little smile, but most of fermetés: this is only a rumour. But a rumor that swells, which swells … Indeed, those who were able to complete Metal Gear Solid 4 and were attentive to the generic may have noticed a strange words: “VOICE OF GOD: Hideo Kojima.”

The voice of God: Hideo Kojima. The man loves. Certainly. The problem is that nobody has heard any voice of God, where the voice of Kojima by the way, in the game And now, it’s more than a month that many players are looking … in vain. Some tracks appear, quickly scanned. Among the rumors, is also a fantasy that juicy: December 12, or 6 months to the day after leaving the game, something will trigger in the game (sync with the clock NSP, no means of cheat). About a new purpose. Or rather … Following the end. For those who have finished the game, you understand the concept of 6 months. And then remember the stunning announcement of the surprise last-minute included in the game, and that nobody has noticed … If it was triggered after the fact, it would be huge!

Meanwhile, fans continue to search. The discussion is open, although as usual ‘, watch out for spoilers!

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Want to know what Hideo Kojima thinks about the future of gaming? The BBC has posted a video interview with the creator of the Metal Gear franchise.

Click here to see the video

Want to have a look at what the Japanese version of the Metal Gear Solid 4 official Sountrack looks like? Below are pictures of the Limited edition of MGS4 and of course the Japanese OST.

The manual is made of very high quality glossy paper and is semi see through as well. Lyrics included from the various songs in the game, and oh the cover is just so damn majestic

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The creator of the Metal Gear franchise has revealed his top 5 most memorable and influential video games. No doubt his own game is in the list”

1. Super Mario Bros. series
2. Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken
3. Xevious
4. Outer World (known as Out of this World in U.S.)
5. Metal Gear Solid

Kojima said:

“Games are a composite art that evolves absorbing new technologies,”

“I hoped to “create a big wave” in the game world”

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After many reports saying that Metal Gear Solid 4 is the last in the series. Fear not, Hideo Kojima himself has stated that he has got to think about Metal Gear Solid 5.

Kojima said:

“I gotta start thinking about MGS5… Even though, well, Snake’s story ends in MGS4. …About MGS5, that would be something that Kojima Productions would have to make, I think.”

Previous statements from Ryan Payton suggested that there will be a MGS5 but not with Solid Snake as Snake’s story ends in MGS4.

My opinion is that yes there will be a Metal Gear Solid 5 but Solid Snake won’t be in the game. Raiden anyone?

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