Yeah, it's certainly not like they're going to need Kojima to work on all those mobile phone games and pachinko machines, after all.
For what it's worth, at this point, I think Kojima > Konami anyway. They lose more by him leaving than he'd gain by staying. He could leave and make the next Metal Gear or Snatcher or Policenauts or, hell, even Silent Hill (since he'd been involved in Silent Hills before Konami idiotically pulled the plug on it) games, in all but name of course, sort of like how Koji Igarashi is doing Bloodstained now, which is essentially Castlevania in all but name. The only definite loser in such a scenario is Konami.
In any case, hopefully Kojima doesn't have some sort of asinine no-compete clause enforced on him by Konami. (But then, if Konami is no longer making big-budget console games and is only focusing on mobile shit and pachinko crap now anyway, I don't see how anything Kojima could do in the future would even be competing with Konami, unless he inexplicably gets into the mobile/pachinko business himself.)
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Date: 2015-10-21 10:08 pm (UTC)From:For what it's worth, at this point, I think Kojima > Konami anyway. They lose more by him leaving than he'd gain by staying. He could leave and make the next Metal Gear or Snatcher or Policenauts or, hell, even Silent Hill (since he'd been involved in Silent Hills before Konami idiotically pulled the plug on it) games, in all but name of course, sort of like how Koji Igarashi is doing Bloodstained now, which is essentially Castlevania in all but name. The only definite loser in such a scenario is Konami.
In any case, hopefully Kojima doesn't have some sort of asinine no-compete clause enforced on him by Konami. (But then, if Konami is no longer making big-budget console games and is only focusing on mobile shit and pachinko crap now anyway, I don't see how anything Kojima could do in the future would even be competing with Konami, unless he inexplicably gets into the mobile/pachinko business himself.)