What the fuck happened with Kojima and Konami during MGS5?

He was taking too long to make MGSV while his rival was drowning Konami in money with the mobile games. Telling him to fuck off was a no brainer, like Microsoft telling Bungie to fuck off.

sunny

This guy gets it.

Money Laundering.

He went over budget so much that Konami was hemorrhaging so much money they had to cut him loose and release the game unfinished. Most of that money was spent so that Kojimbo could hang out with c- list celebrities. That's why Konami avoided the gaming industry for so long.

Now, it seems like history is about to repeat itself with Sony. The budget for DS at least $100 million. where do you think all that money went? 2018 God of War was $80 Million, but at least that was an actual game.

Use funds to enhance your game and actually make the gameplay interesting and the story make sense

or

Use the bare minumum amount of funds to make a bare bones walking simulator with an incoherent story so that you can use the rest of the money to hang out with c-list celebrities and create a photo mode so you can goon to said celebrities

He's a pretentious asshole obsessed with his own genius.

japan has weird business practices. he probably was spending too much money on licensed music and 3D scans of quiet's feet. some old 'boss' decided to fire him and focus on the mobile gaming market, but also decided to fuck with him by sabotaging MGS5. boomers over there like to bully other employees

now konami is flopping out of the mobile game market after the chinese took over and are returning to AAA development and making metal gear solid games again.

Y.. You just don't get what DS was all about, okay?

That's why Konami avoided the gaming industry for so long.

what retarded fiction have you conjured up? he immediately went back into it with his next game being 4 years after TPP. that's a very normal release window, if not a pretty short dev time, under regular circumstances. kojima started a new studio, constantly switched offices early on, was building a new team, and started with a new engine that his team was unfamiliar with. 4 years for all of that is insanely fast.

Konami wanted scans of joost's soles for their next pachinko game but kojimbo said no

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ᴬ ᴴᶦᵈᵉᵒ ᴷᵒʲᶦᵐᵃ ᴾʳᵒᵈᵘᶜᵗᶦᵒn is the best game in the series

Raiden

Kojima is a fucking budget blackhole and Konami wasnt really that big so I guess the leash was too tight on him and he quit (kick out) also Kojimas games never sold well so it was suicide to keep him around, now Sony and Microsoft can afford his bullshit but Im pretty sure its not worth the time and money

George is cooler though
Kojima is a retard

The asian girl is pregnant? seriously whats his fucking problem is he really THAT fucking weird?

george lucas is a lot of fucking things but cool is not one of them

Bro... your reading comprehension???

he body scanned a pregnant woman?

Using M

The budget for DS at least $100 million

source: my mind can't handle reality otherwise

youtube.com/watch?v=TqxZXFJteCI
I enjoyed this

pregnancy is weird

troon moment

They are both retards who were let out without their tard wranglers, but at least George didn't fuck up badly enough to force his tard wrangler to step in and release half a movie to try and recoup the damage.

Using MGSV money, a game everyone loved and wanted to be completed, to work on PT, a game whose demo everyone loved and wanted to be completed.
What the fuck Konami? They should be lucky he even chose them. We need to bring patronage back, and place the creation of art over just profits.

Nta but It's literally the first Google result retard.

Star Wars is shit.

First result is the gay google AI saying either 100 million or maybe 8 million followed by reddit speculation posts.

Let me ask chatgpt guys

right... good old pregnancy, as if hes not going to do something fucking weird with her and the baby right? like the fucking ghost fetus in the first one or god knows what now for the second one. Kojima fanboys are just as bad as him. Hey guys! lets think the pregnant woman was just a random choice by kojima!

Indiana Jones trilogy mogs anything Kojima has made

Quality research and data standards expected of Anon Babble

I feel like Kojima redeemed himself with Death Stranding after all the weird retardation that was Quiet

Update: Estimated to be over 80 million

So what agency props up this industry plant?

hollywood for some reason

You say 100 million he says 8 million. Truth? Probably somewhere in the middle

you mean steven spielberg's gay racial revenge fantasy against the white man

guy who wanted to make films somehow ends up in video games

ends up creating some of the best gameplay systems of all time

fills up his games with cutscenes nonetheless

desperately wants to be a director

What gives? Is there some right hand man who's been with him from the beginning who is the idea's guy for the gameplay?

Dropping PT and announcing SH a year before MGSV finished development (and then releasing MGSV unfinished) was probably a big part of it

>ends up creating some of the best gameplay systems of all time

such as?

he must redeem himself for being heterosexual once, by making a gay game

typical kojima fan

Gamers all rushed to Kojima's side but the reality was more complicated.

Konami was losing assloads of money

properties weren't selling anymore

the games people argued that they wanted had stopped selling well years before

MGSV was over budget by an assload

Whole new engine just for one game that was a money pit

Kojima kept making radical changes all the way up to the last moment (example. He cut an assload of Sutherland's lines and rearranged them because he watched Mad Max Fury Road and liked Max's portrayal).

Gamers see this and go "le art for art sakes" after Kojima just blew loads of money on shit he replaces anyways because hollywood actors are expensive

He was generally undelivering on promises, failing to meet deadlines, and clashing with higher ups (big no no in Japanese work culture)

He was also using the budget on P.T. and generally using both projects to just fulfill his Hollywood dream that would culminate in Death Stranding

he brought the dirty laundry out in the open

Konami, rightly, fires the guy and pivots into a profitable business (If you check Konami's finance history this actually saved them and allowed them enough money to pivot back into low cost gaming projects years later).

TDLR: Kojima was fired because he was managing MGSV like it was his own money on the line instead of Konami's

If you talk shit about Quiet again, you're gonna get beat up

my bad, i need new glasses. read konami as kojima. your premise is still flawed. they stayed away from console gaming because kojima was a fuckup? no, they stayed away because their other business ventures were more profitable and slot machines and card games were a low investment way of making boatloads of money compared to an entire market that was doing poorly. konami is just a smart company, they moved away from the industry for a bit while everyone else started to crash and burn. now, they cautiously dip their toes back in while everyone else is floundering, knowing that their products don't even have to be that amazing to stand above the rest of the trash being produced by big studios.

anyways, pretty much the only bit of real investigative journalism on this topic that has been done by anyone was superbunnyhop, and even that is not super credible. basically a rumour by someone claiming to work at konami said that the president had personal beef with kojima.

>he brought the dirty laundry out in the open

Your mistaken here. Both Konami and Kojima were rather civil to each other publicly.
Most "bad feelings" shit traces ultimately to Geoff being a fag and stirring shit when he shouldn't for muh game awards ratings.

Konami's willingness to rush out his games and giving small budgets for what is supposed to be guaranteed profit. Kojima haters won't tell you this but most of Kojima productions left to work with him and yet he's the bad guy to them.

Based

makes games the way he wants without compromising on costs

actually based if you ask me

It is based which is why he's better working independently which would also force him to be cautious with money

makes you wonder where he got all that money for DS1 and now DS2 along with all the other projects he's been teasing

makes games the way he wants without compromising

unless it will get him in contact with C tier hollywood celebrities, then he'll do anything you ask

Sony

like what?

like uhm... you know... butt stuff...

makes games the way he wants without compromising on costs

And we ended up with a fucking walking simulator. Bravo kojimbo!

Had nothing to do with money, all those journofags were all clickbaiting with zero effidence to pack it up and of course you braindead normie cattle believed them. The real reason was konami forced them to make the game also for ps3/x360 which was almost impossible and KJP was close to collapsing, on top of that konami forced them to keep removing scenes cause they were afraid of the shitstorm. When talking about war children some news outlet was literally using MGSV footage as reference, this is when konami got cold feet. There is a reason the waterboarding scene or venom running over burned corpses was all removed in the final game.

This dude made a walking simulator with 1 hour cutscenes

A good game no matter how much you seethe

Shit covered with gold foil would still be shit, thats what DS is.

"a fucking walking simulator" that's getting a sequel in 3 months :')

even have to be that amazing to stand above the rest of the trash being produced by big studios.

Who do they have left? They chased away the likes of Kojima and Igarashi. They have no idea how to properly continue their games beyond remakeshit

See
:P

seethe harder, faggottroon

Shit analogy

Not surprising, kojima haters are always dumb

Couldn't stop using the MGS5 budget for foods

Farewell big giant weiner

His standards are too high. MGSV was a money hole. Development was too slow.

He got sick of making MGS games after 4 but Konami needed the IP to continue

It is generally a winning idea to let the goose that lays the golden eggs to do whatever it wants and feeds it whatever it wants, because not to do so means no golden eggs anymor. And some blown up ego's wanted to test this "law" and ended up with a broken nose and an empty basket for golden eggs.

Oh my god look at those numbaas!! 20 fucking million retard fags bought a walking simulator how I'm gonna cope!
Cry more snoytroon

kojima is a hack that relies on celebrities because he has no original characters

bought

Read the *

YOU are a no-brainer retard~kun

The same no-brainer as the musik studio guy that didn't want to sign the Beatles.

goypass

Lmao its an entirely new form of scam. Bait retards into playing their slop by launching expensive trailers.

a bare bones walking simulator

Absolute aids-brain take...

Samefag more retard~kun

He's the George Lucas of vidya

Indeed he is, he got a couple of things great, then shat on everything since then.

Troon more schizo kojimbo

a game everyone loved

Holy fuck, are you legitimately delusional?

snoy

the game is on PC and Xbox you can stop coping now

Kojima fans make shit like Hunt Down the Freeman

Goes to show what he inspires.

Kojiumbo earned executive seat from MGS success

He abused his status to funnel all the Konami profit to his team

He gets to make whatever game he wants with unlimited funding, while forcing new talents to work on gacha slop to make money for him

Kojima notices disgruntled employees and others executives trying to boot him off from his dictatorship

Kojima stages a coup to fully take over Konami, traveling around the world to make connections with foreign investors, as nobody liked him internally

Konami notices this plot and stops him from attending game awards, which was a huge chance for him to speedrun making connections

Due to Konami intervention Kojima's plan fails and gets booted, this "bridging connection" experience gave him an idea to make Death Stranding

Konami had to slave away making slop for few years to get back on its feet, but now no-name directors are allowed to make games and explore new projects

sauce: my dad works at nintendo

Michelangelo's standards are too high and he takes too long so we decided to spray paint the chapel instead!"

And you think that's a good thing, dumbass nigger faggot...

He was Vice President and didn’t tell the President what he was doing with the money he was blowing. The power got to his head and it cost him.

Bingo

Right on the money

Bullseye

Why are these phrases always said in response to the dumbest fucking comments you'll ever read online? Are they just terms only dementia ridden boomers use or what?

didn’t tell the President what he was doing with the money

The power got to his head and it cost him.

source?

METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN made $77,369,296.00 in gross revenue since its release. Out of this, the developer had an estimated net revenue of $22,823,942.32.

An "unfinished mess" btw.

"Oh man we can't pay catering for staff it's so expensive, let alone the extra stuff for the talent that pays everyones salaray and skyrocketed our stocks!

Omg why are doing so badly now and people hate us and we still have shill our retarded narrative on faggotchan ;__;

Whatever cosmic event led to us getting a 3D scanned Elle Fanning model rip has my respect and blessing
Thank you Konami

Who the fuck cares...
He basically made Konami and it's easy to spot by recognizing the shitheap it is now.

Fox engine primarily. He has huge power in Konami without being the CEO and ran up massive development costs on building the fox engine. The upper management wanted there to be caps on how much development would cost but kojima breached them constantly. He acted like Konami was his personal bank account and eventually the CEO couldn't afford it anymore and kojima was pushed out.

One can literally tell in which degenerate's stream chats you kids live. You sad little creature kys.

The real story is as simple as this:

Konami's overall console games market was suffering (in particular, Silent Hill had died off hard and years of work resulted in them just losing money on THREE games)

during this time, one of the execs in the mobile games division got a lot of sway

Kojima was the only VP against this shift away from console games

there may or may not have been mistreatment of staff on MGSV due to Konami higher ups

this results in Kojima leaving

That's about it.
This is also not what happened. There's no real indication that PT cost much at all to make since its unique assets amount to a couple of still images, some basic models that probably were recycled from other games, and a fetus, and as far as we know Norman Reedus appeared in the demo as a favor.
Before anyone even mentions supposed MGSV budget bloating, its confirmed budget was industry standard. $80 million was the normal AAA development cost of the time, and that's in fact far cheaper than one would expect given how KojiPro also developed an inhouse engine for the game, rather than using UE3/4 like most other studios at the time.

Really, the entire scenario is baffling on Konami's part. They knew MGSV would make back its budget and generate a large profit, because it did that within a week of release.
They had been struggling with Silent Hill for a decade by the time of PT as well. Silent Hill had lost favor in Japan with SH2, and in the west by Homecoming, with 2012 being the most dismal year in franchise history. Kojima literally revitalized a brand that had been dying/dead for years using recycled assets.
I don't even think his SH would be good, I think he would've made a terrible SH game, but Konami leadership were on fucking crack for throwing that out.

Mgs5 would never make back its development costs because fox engine development is not included and was massive even compared to the game.

WQe would've a complete MSV and PT but he had to completely drop everything and pull a complete new IP out of his ass while building a studio...

look at year to year profit chart of Konami

you can see the giant crater of that Kojima caused and the instant profit gain every year after he is gone

Comedy gold.

That sounds more like the soulless megacorp bullshit one can believe.

BEHOLD
The ultimate lifeform to absorb money and produce garbage.

Jim Tranny Sterling also was a massive shitstirrer and had big influence back then. He never once aknowledged any of the numerous games Konami released to success since then but always makes sure to cover some rare drama.
Hearing him try not to cry during the Death Flopping review because he gassed up Kojimbo so much over the years was so funny.

but with no regard for actually making a finished product in reasonable amount of time.

What retarded sentiment is this.
Kojima did the following in his time at Konami.

Metal Gear (1987)

Snatcher (1988)

Metal Gear 2 (1990)

Policenauts (1994, after contributing on two other games)

Metal Gear Solid (1998, his first fully 3D title)

Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001, after producing 3 other games)

Metal Gear Solid 3 (2004, after producing 4 other games)

Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence + MGO (2005)

Metal Gear Solid 4 + MGO2 (2008, after being a staff member on a dozen other games)

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010)

P.T. (2014, in his spare time)

Metal Gear Solid V (2015, all while working on the next Fox Engine, tard wrangling KojiPro who failed to make their independent console title, and acting as a producer on several other games)

The longest gap between games he directly worked on at Konami was five years, and that was while said game was having an entire engine made for it.
The gap between DS1 and DS2 is gonna be one year longer, but he's already announced another project in a middle-late stage of development.

Death Stranding is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions and originally published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

He is mentally ill but his retard fan base keep memeing him to Snoy. It's morbius tier fiasco of gaming industry.

2018 God of War was $80 Million, but at least that was an actual game.

Bait

blaaaaaa 22 billion profit...

It's so fucking funny how everyone pretends like he was slaving away in the basement, legs locked to chains with just water and bread.
When he was the fucking Vice President of the company and used all the money he stole from all the other projcts to go on dinnerdates with shitty hollywood actors.

Yeah man, the game that made back its budget in less than a week, and went on to be Konami's best selling console title of all time, couldn't pay off engine dev costs.
Even ignoring that absurdity, Fox Engine pays for itself. The idea was that it would be used in other Konami games, meaning they don't need to pay licensing costs on UE, which they did. Konami unfortunately stopped making games, so it only got used in an MGSV reskin and PES.

Youtube journalists hire this man immediately

It's so fucking funny how everyone pretends like he was slaving away in the basement, legs locked to chains with just water and bread.

Maybe that is why Konami removed the waterboarding scene from mgs5 since he wuz revealing too much to his blowers?

What the deal with him putting credits fellating himself after each mission and side-mission in MGSV?

stop releasing games, just focus on gambling machines and ongoing phone products

raw profit increases because there are no costs

Because MGSV is a TV show. That's the idea.
It's a TV serial that gets cancelled before it finishes a four-cour run.

Konami was the biggest 3rd party publisher on Switch before Monster Hunter Rise.
Sorry you are too racist to even aknowledge japanese games made by a japanese company fora japanese audience.

Oh man, what games did they release

Super Bomberman R (low-cost title)

Arcade Collection (port)

Castlevania Collection (port)

Contra Collection (port)

Contra Rogue Corps (low-cost title (that sucked ass))

Japan only baseball game (low-cost title)

Yu-Gi-Oh Link Evolution (low-cost title AND YGO so it's just free money)

The rest of the shit they published is just this.
Low-cost sports titles, ports, or phone game tier shit.
The most expensive thing they released was probably the latest iteration on Girl's Side.

Kojima was never fired. You believed second hand sources and journalists reporting rumors as facts. Silent Hills and the real MGS5 are still coming.

Nah this is a bullshit story. Kojima was the president of the gaming division of Konami for 10 years. He sold off major Konami IPs to the west to have more money for his own project. He fired most of Konamis talent including the Castlevania, Silent Hill and Contra devs.

Not to mention he barred anyone from making games that's not related to his work, and even if they were allowed to touch MGS spin-off, Kojima would either push them aside and take-over the production, or completely disregard the work as a trash that's not DIRECTED BY HIDEO KOJIMA.
It'd be stupid to assume that he didn't have that kind of power when he was literally the VP of Konami. Retards love him for pushing out MGS, but he probably did that at a cost of killing hundreds of new talents.

Reminder that Kojima is petty child. He de-canonized Portable Ops to replace it with a soap opera.

What's it like for you, being a schizophrenic? Seems like your life must be horrifying.

Where's the Abandoned, you lying nigger?
What a nothing burger that was

He needed more money to fully realize his vision. The game is clearly unfinished, especially in the story department. There’s a lot of gameplay, sure, but the narrative falls apart halfway through. Kojima also pushed for more big-name Hollywood actors besides Kiefer Sutherland, which didn’t sit well with Konami. That’s when the relationship really started to sour.

The final straw was Silent Hills. That project was his last big middle finger to Konami. He brought in Norman Reedus as the lead, fully aware the company would never approve it, even though PT was a massive success. Konami just didn’t care. They weren’t interested in ambitious projects anymore.

They probably threw him a bone by offering something stupid like Metal Gear Zombie Edition. He refused. And then they "fired" him. Or rather, in that typical Japanese corporate fashion, they sidelined him, stripped his authority, and made his position untenable. They didn’t fire him with a public spectacle, they just made it impossible for him to stay.

At the time, Konami was raking in absurd amounts of money from pachinko machines. The return on investment was huge compared to the razor-thin profits of AAA games. From their point of view, Kojima's creativity was no longer valuable. It was just a financial risk they weren’t willing to take.

game given for free multiple times on epic store, people begins it gets bored and unistall lmao

it was still successful enough that sony greenlit a sequel you goddamn retard LMAO

PT is unironically the only bad game kojima made, it's shit and incredibly over-rated

still don't disprove those numbers are incredibly inflated

as a horror fan and silent hill 1 fan I absolutely agree.

faggot, it was just a small teaser for what's to come and it became one of the best horror experiences ever made, even today indie fags still copy its formular. Wanna know why Kojima horror games are so good? because he's actually really afraid and can barely watch a horror movie, that’s why he can project his fear so well into those games, other horror game devs feel nothing while making those games, that's why OD will be an absolute masterpiece.

Literally what's wrong with low-cost AA titles that's targeted towards Japanese audience instead of going global AAAA that's targeted towards jewish investors?
Also you failed to mention Momotaro Dentetsu, Suikoden, Edens Zero, Tokimeki Memorial, Silent Hill f, also mostly low-cost titles, but I fail to see a problem.
They are still supporting arcades with Bomber Girl, Beatmania, and Pop'n music, instead of allowing it to get replaced by Dave & Buster's slop.
On top of that they hold Japanese indie events like IGC to allow new talents to emerge.
It's also strange how these "good projects" by no-name dev teams are starting to emerge after Kojima left, and all the sports slops you mentioned are from the time Konami needed money because certain someone was hogging all the money.

not at all, it says players and not units sold... retard

Lol.
Kojima only became VP in 2011.
Konami dissolved KCET in 2005/06, which was the end of Japanese developed SH.
The last Iga Castlevania game was Ecclesia in 2008.
The last halfway decent Contra game, Contra 4, was 2007, and the IP had already long since played host to bad games before then.

SH leads all felt they were done with the franchise by SH2-4.
The director of 1 left immediately after launch.
The director of 2 left KCET after it failed in Japan, and left Konami when he realized he didn't like making mass appeal video games.
The key staff of 3 all eventually left long before Kojima became VP.

Igarashi left Konami in 2014, but his resentment goes back a decade- in particular, he did want to develop a seventh gen console title. Unfortunately, that wasn't cockblocked by Kojima but by Konami, as that occurred in 2008.

As for Contra, the key staff that made those games good left Konami or died long before Kojima became VP.

The point being made is that OF COURSE profits increase when you aren't actually spending money dumbass.

By the way, I did mention Tokimeki Memorial, but I guess you're a poser and/or EOP if you didn't recognize it in my earlier list. Your little list of games I "failed to mention" all also fall under my categorizations on Konami Switch titles- with the exception of SHf which isn't a Switch title.

it was just a small teaser for what's to come and it became one of the best horror experiences ever made

bro, that's the definition of overrated and PT did nothing original, layers of fear used same tricks and it also was nothing special. only aspect of PT that was somewhat cool is puzzle design where kojima expected bunch of ppl online to come together to figure out the solution but he didn't expect ppl would crack it immediately. personally I am not a fan of such design but I can see why it got so much praise among zoomers and terminally online trannies.

Layers of fear came out after PT and used it as main source of inspiration, dingus.

They made him impossible to stay not because of "muh Japanese corporate dystopia head-cannon" he got booted off in a semi-coup fashion because he was VC of Konami
Why do people see Kojima as some kind of innocent low-end employee when he was literally a top executive of Pachiko machine mogul Konami
He is just as guilty of allowing that thing to happen, and he most likely 100% supported that slop money making machine as only thing he's interested was funding his expensive ego

fuck, I made a mistake there, sorry

just to add one more thing, this loop design is nothing original. the first game I remember playing which had it was super mario bros, 8-4 castle

PT is genuinely a top 10 horror game of all time and unironically better than every Silent Hill.

The last halfway decent Contra game, Contra 4, was 2007, and the IP had already long since played host to bad games before then.

operation galuga is new and is good, what are you taliking about

kek love this bastard
miss you Norm

Also in general, god I wish we could go back to that period between 2011-2014 when MGS 5 and Ground Zeroes was at peak hype, with the trailers and FOX Engine looking absolutely gorgeous. The way that whole thing played out is such a tragedy.

spending less money = less profit

spending more money = more profit

Spending less money doesn't equate to instant win in capitalism retard, Kojima was just shit at his job
We wouldn't be seeing expensive slop like GoW , Last of Us, or Assassin's Creed if spending ridiculous amount of big development cost was some kind of noble action that doesn't bring profit, but brings great art

it's ok to have shit taste or being media illiterate don't worry

Nah dude, it really is. SH2 doesn't hold a candle to it lol

TPP made back it's development costs almost immediately. It was massively successful in a way that all that slop you referenced after could only dream of.

yeah right repeat corridor gimmick non game is better than complete game with full top tier story, great art direction and actual gameplay LMAO

ground zeroes is another name for the twin towers

the game takes place almost entirely in guantanamo bay

the final shot of mother base is two towers blowing up

half of the followup game takes place in afghanistan

slop

made less money

So which is it?
Also read other posts retard, "development cost of TPP" doesn't include development cost of Fox Engine, which was definitely WAY more expensive than TPP development cost

It's good if you don't get Contra, Tomm.

It is when Konami was just coasting on phone games and gambling.

nonsensical, freudian "le deep" story with garbage metaphors and symbolism

gameplay consists of just running around like a tank and avoiding dying

art looks like it was done by an amateur

You're a fucking idiot.

Sony also greenlit concord.
And Marathon.

it's literally a remake of an old contra game i think you're mistaking it with rougue corps

you won the hyperbole award of the year with this post, greetings anon

I thought he blows the budget mostly on the engine? Making new engine from scratch ain't cheap but i have to admit it's great engine and give UE solid competition

That business practice started when Kojima was funneling all of the development cost towards him, and he was the vice president of Konami

Konami wanted to make pachinko machines and phone games instead of AAA video games. They rushed out an unfinished MGS5 and did just that. Kojima was a AAA video game guy that suddenly found himself in a pachinko company, so they parted ways.

Why was he fired?

because he thought he was a God that could go away by spending all Konami money however he wanted or Konami would just die without him.

people will say Kojima was at fault (partially true) but heres what transpired

Kojima went extremely overbudget with MGS, constantly reassuring shareholders MGSV would make back its money

he kept wasting time and making last minute changes

Konami was trying to get out of AAA gaming because pachinko was blowing up in Japan at that time and decacdes of mismanaging franchises has finally caught up to them

both of these problems really clashed

Kojima gets booted because Konami said enough is enough

MGSV releases and makes back its entire production budget on pre orders alone

Konami still gets out of videogames and becomes a full time gambling company

fast forward 7 years

Pachinko market collapses due to government regulations

Konami desperately wants to get back into videogames but they have to keep up face because they will never hire Kojima again

now are coasting off the games he used to make

People are on stupid juice here, why would Kojima refuse pachinko or sport slop or whatever money making machine they have when he's obsessed with hiring expensive hollywood celebrities?
For all we know he could've been the one who pushed that shit just so could be in the "AAA" goyslop industry, suck Kojima's dick all you want but all of his games are made from Pachinko blood money.

Pachinko market collapses due to government regulations

that is bullshit, Konami stopped doing pachinko because certain someone wasn't bleeding the company dry

Konami stopped doing Pachinko 7 years after the fact that Kojima left just as regulations tightened

because of KoJima

The best is yet to come.

It seems like he loved to goon to the idea of being a movie director while he was making games.
It's a repetitive jank where you have to grind for eternity to get the weapon you actually want.

watches an old hollywood movie

makes a game based around that

"OMG YOU'RE A HECKIN GENIUS SO ORIGINAL!"

I will never understand why people dicksuck him so much. What is it with Japs and having all these celebrity devs that takes ALL the credits for a game while western companies treat it more as an effort?

hold triggers to not fall over

youtube.com/watch?v=9k7DrIWcrdI
he couldn't stop plagiarizing so they had to let him go

Don't know, don't care. Just glad Kojima made the most rapeable male character in video games ever.

the real mastermind behind mgs was fukushima, kojima just took all the credits

falls over anyway

"lost & never found" starts playing in the background

Pachinko market collapses due to government regulations

wasn't this because of rona-chan and lockdowns?

By the end of 2019 (pre-COVID), Japan had 9,639 pachinko parlors, down from a peak of 17,000 in 1990.

In 2020, a Tokyo Shōkō Research survey reported 12 pachinko parlor bankruptcies from January to May, double the previous year’s rate, with three directly linked to COVID. They predicted over 30 bankruptcies for the year, the highest since 2014.

By 2022, 640 parlors had closed, and over 7,500 were struggling.

In May 2025, Konami announced a split, creating Konami Arcade Games to handle arcade games and leaving Konami Amusement to focus on pachinko and pachislot. This move suggests they’re doubling down on pachinko’s potential, not abandoning it, despite the industry’s struggles. They’re aiming for “flexible, responsive management” to adapt to market changes, which could imply they see a path forward post-COVID.

Wow, what the fuck. You learn something new.

Because he is a retard that wasted unspeakable amounts of budget just to have an empty open world to show for it that made the game objectively worse.

How was this kojima's fault? lol he wasn't the composer

Retard alert, he only helped with a few optional codec lines, main story was all written by kojima

thesnakesoup.org/editorial-articles/curious-case-tomokazu-fukushima/

lol I hate zoomers so much it's unbelievable

that was debunkered long time ago, update your priors retardo-kun

ERM YES CHUDDIE YOU MUST KNOW ABSOLUTELY EVERY SINGLE MICRODETAIL AND HAVE SEEN EVERY SINGLE VIDEO AND INTERVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT VIDEO OF A GAME TO BE AN ACTUAL FAN

You are a nigger. Okay?

no source

ok zoomtard

Exactly, otherwise don't talk about shit you have absolutely no idea about, faggot

mgs went to shit the moment fukushima left

I don't need any more proofs

Name, link and list every single development video, guide, interview, article and magazine ever made for all of MGS as an entirety, or you're not a real fan.
You got 10 minutes.

The only thing that went to shit was the fact that we got less interesting codec calls
thesnakesoup.org/editorial-articles/curious-case-tomokazu-fukushima/

“We want the game to be good”

“You don’t understand!! This character has diabetes and a chihuahua with a mole on its cheek. This won’t ever be the case!!!!”

“Goodbye”

This guy basically made Kojima's games COHERENT and not rambling nonsense. Without him Kojima looks like an out of touch maniac-retard.

but with no regard for actually making a finished product in reasonable amount of time.

the average modern AAA game takes over 8 years to make
kojima released over 10 games in the 8 year period before mgs5
not to mention mgs5 was profitable from day 1 since it came out
it didnt need cope like "players"

Every gamer's waifu in 2015

In 2025, no one remembers her but her less than 10k viewers on her failed let's play channel

How the FUCK do you fall off so hard?

WHY CAN NO ONE MAKE A DAMN STEALTH GAME ANYMORE

Why are there only 2-3 good stealth games out there? And only one like MGSV, open world stealth?

Oh shit my bad, you're retarded

anon, mgs4 was so fucking bad it was like a different guy made it and we know for sure that it was kojima behind it, 100%. in fact mgs4 was so incredibly stupid kojima was afraid to even put any story in mgs 5 and the shit that was there like vocal cord parasites was extremely bad. death stranding was ok but I would bet my balls some hollywood guy wrote it for him. peace walker is somewhat a puzzle I admit, it was the only game post mgs3 fukusima would write in terms of writing quality.

Hitman WoA mogs MGSV in literally every way
It's the best stealth experience to date

Kojima was forced to make MGS4, he got death threats you goddamn piece of shit zoomer. He wanted to move on a long loooong time ago but fans wouldn't let him. This is what happens when you cage a creative mastermind like Kojima

She looks like the old version of the young versions actress in The Substance.

Time's up! You couldn't even list ONE thing? What a fake fan, you dumb little retard. :(

Wait 5-6 years for Physint and let Kojimbo once again save this god forsaken shithole of an industry because no one outside him and his team got any talent left

Kojima literally replaced her with that exact actress in DS

lole

I'm not your puppet zoom zoom, look it up yourself

why does Anon Babble still like this guy? his new games are meh. literally fedex simulator, yikes

Kojima wasn't held at gun point to make MGS4 or a shitty game. "Death threats" what a fucking joke lol. That nigga could've stepped away and it would've been fine.

makes a claim for basis of being a real fan

can't back it up when it's challenged

Yikes. Sounds like a poser to me. You should quit while you're ahead, you've never played any of these games anyway.

filtered by kojikino

bro he tried to create successor but failed, multiple times (after mgs2, mgs3, then he was later pulled in to work on mgrr but had to find different studio lmao). mgs4 wasn't a project he was interested in true, but his other projects like zoe and zoe2 weren't very successful so konami would have been stupid to give him money to work on "passion projects" afterwards, mgs4 was also expensive as fuck with sony backing it up as huge ps3 system seller/exclusive, everything about mgs4 design screams that it was expensive overproduced trash, especially cutscenes. and I don't buy it that he didn't enjoy every fucking moment he spent while making this absolute kusoge.

I played them all on launch, I'm a bit older than your faggy zoomtroon ass, unlike you I know wtf i'm talking about

But George Lucas actually made a few good things while kojima just steals credit from other people and plagiarizes

I haven't read the thread but is anyone else excited for Metal Gear Delta? It's the only game I'm looking forward to playing in a long time.

fag

metagearsolid.org/reports_mgs4_kojimaVSmgs4.html

LOL imagine lying this fucking hard, you're pathetic nigga

I know that anon. He is older than you and has better taste

I'm dead serious, believe me or not couldn't care less

Holy shit for real? AHAHAAH that's meta kino.

The important thing to remember is, since the break Konami sends glowing gooks here to besmirch his name.

2018 God of War was $80 Million, but at least that was an actual game.

I know the other anon. He is 100% telling the truth.

He spent 7 years on a game without coming close to finishing it

samefagging won't help you here lil zoomie

Most of this thread is people making shit up that's easily refutable, it's bizarre.

Wrong, Zoomfuck. He spent 5 years working on the FOX engine alone and only 3 years on TPP.