Report: Hideo Kojima Starting New Studio With Former Konami Employees [UPDATED]

@djkommunist: Good News! There is already a Boktai 2, 3 and a spiritual successor

Ok, time to make Zone of Silent Gears or Metal Hills of Enders.

@omatictoast: You may be the only person I've ever heard prefer a big developer make a phone game

Was Kojima really the head for ZOE and ZOE2? I know they are both konami and the MGS2 demo pack in. The art is clearly the same style, hell Sahelanthropus is ZOE style as fuck, and the animal references.

Anyways how about a jrpg with giant robots and story full of conspiracy for the Sony platform, I heard those are big these days, but fuck it will be another game I can't play on the PC.

I hope he finally stops that weird habit of his where he undermines the messages in his games with impractical booby ladies

Breaking: Kojima to head up Sony Bend

Can't wait to see what idea he has next. I kinda hope it's not another stealth action game because it will inevitably be compared to MGS and with a smaller team I don't think it's wise to go up against MGSV.

Exclusive Sony game. Shit just got real.

Kojima looks pretty haggered in that video. The new logo for Kojima Productions is dope tho'.

This is so damn amazing. That new logo is sick, also huge play for Sony.

After 14 years of constantly stating he wants to end the Metal Gear franchise, if his first game winds up being about nuclear equipped walking battle tanks, I might just throw him off a cliff.

@isomeri: I think he's just going for a new look. New start, new look. Makes sense to me. Or maybe he just decided he liked the way he looks with a beard. Also different style of glasses and hair.

I shouldn't be so familiar with how he looks, but he did insert himself twice into MGSV.

cool, very interested to see what he does next. if its good i might finally have a reason to get a ps4

Edit: never mind, missed that its a console exclusive. guess i wont need a ps4 afterall. sweet!

I don't know, I feel like Kojima is still a well-known enough, relevant dev for Sony or another publisher to fund him for a game. The Kickstarter route makes more sense for niche games like Shenmue that publishers don't feel like they'll get a big return on. I can only imagine a triple-A story-based Kojima franchise would do pretty well, especially after MGSV.

Yoooooo dat new logo!

YO DID ANYONE SEE THAT BEARD MY BOY KOJIMA IS CHANNELING SOME SERIOUS TOSHIRO MIFUNE UP IN HER. OH MAN THAT LOGO.

Today was good.

Well shit, there it is. If there was a day to be a Sony fanboy, today is truly that day.

Hopefully whatever it is shows up on PS4 and isn't VR exclusive, although that would no doubt be rad.

The future of video games is exciting!

He looks really happy, like legitimately thrilled, I hope he has a good time with his new project.

I know this is a pipe dream, but I would love to see him use ideas from PT/Silent Hills in whatever he's making next.

Regret your words. And your deeds.

Regret them!

but srsly, glad that he's doing this because he wants to and hope it all works out awesomely. Personally I'm looking forward to something completely new (theme-wise and gameplay-wise).

See you all in 5-7 years!

Also, it sucks that his team spent all that time on the fox engine and only got to use it on one game. And I love that his new studios name is the same as the old one.

I don't feel much excitement in video games nowadays, but this has got me really excited. I'm really stoked to hear more on this. Badass logo!

"I'm committed to be involved in creative activities as long as I live"

That is awesome and inspiring to hear. Man I can't wait.

Aw snap

You mean the last three Pro Evolution Soccer games don't count?

This is a brilliant move by Sony. Regardless of what project results from this new partnership, Sony stock just went up a couple of percentage points. I wonder if that video gets a million hits before noon tomorrow.

Can't wait for his next opus in like 6 years.

Yep.

What a fantastic year for gaming. 2015 is going down in the books. Congrats Kojima-san!

I'm into Goatee Kojima.

Man, Andrew House's Japanese is pretty solid.

Kojima Productions developed PES?

That logo is really awesome!

You think the engine was exclusively their thing? It had a separate team. They had 7 years to use it.

This is great news. Looking forward to seeing what the new studio is working on, whenever they announce it.

On the 1st day of Xmas Kojima gave to me

A brand new Video game IP

On the 2nd day of Xmas Konami gave to me

A Fatal bankruptcy

Can't wait for a formal game announcement. As much as I love mgs I'm so glad kojima now has a clean slate to start from.

I would also make the joke about playing this in 5-7 years, but I won't own a Sony console. I'll just watch the cutscenes on YouTube.

Boy, can't wait to see Kojima make something smaller. Just a smaller-scale indie-type game. Yeah, that would be cool, yeah. Just, you know, a smaller project.

God I hope so.

Honestly, what hypes me the most about this piece of news is the fact that Sony labeled the future game as a "console exclusive", meaning that it will probably appear on PC (if that's not planned already). Otherwise they wouldn't have even mentioned any kind of nuanced exclusivity.

Dude that logo has Shinkawa written all over it. All we have to do is wait for some sort of official statement on who is there. I imagine most of the band is coming along too, Murata, Shinkawa, Imaizumi, Eyestone and such. At least I hope.

forgive me...but that new logo looks pretty DANK!

Man the logo looks amazing. Looks like a Mr. Sparkle merger of Jehuty's head and the skull from Outer Heaven.

SO, I'm buying a PS4

Im kind surprise MS didnt snatch him up.

I think facial hair Kojima is my favorite.

@kasaioni: What if that's not Kojima at all!!?!?!??