A rumor surfaced back in March 2020, suggesting that Kojima Productions and Sony were planning to acquire the IP rights of Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill. Konami acted quickly and denied those rumors in a matter of days. And, today, Hideo Kojima has once again debunked those rumors.
When asked about the Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill IP acquisitions, Kojima had this to say.
“Ah, that’s completely false. I haven’t heard anything about it at least.”
So there you have it everyone, straight from Kojima himself.
To be honest, this does not really surprise us. After all, Konami had no reason at all to lie about this whole thing. Not only that, but it wouldn’t make any sense – business-wise – to sell the IP of these franchises.
Now this does not rule out the possibility of a future collaboration between Sony and Konami. As we’ve already reported, Sony may be working on a new Silent Hill game with Konami. However, that game will not be developed by Kojima Productions. Moreover, Sony will not purchase the Silent Hill IP. Instead, Konami will allow Sony to develop a new Silent Hill game for the Playstation.
Lastly, Kojima stated that the team is currently working on the PC version of Death Stranding. Moreover, Kojima is working on his next game, which is currently in a planning phase.
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enough with the remasters and remakes
gives us Silent Hill, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, a proper Hitman, Battlefield BC3, A story-driven Rainbow Six, SINGLE player games, couch co-op, … the things you deprived us of this gen
ok, they are all always online coop looter shooters set in a empty open world you are welcome.
i don’t trust Ubisoft to make a good prince of persia/splinter cell/rainbow six game nowadays.
and as for hitman i dont think it will ever go back to being at hitman2/contract/blood money level because most of the original devs left IOI before the travesty that was Hitman absolution.
BC3? no thanks i want my battlefield like battlefield 2,3,4 not a console friendly game with not jets
as for silent hill the last good one was silent hill 4 and it was more than a decade ago
To be fair I installed Prince 2 a while back and realized it’s definitely nostalgia to remember that trilogy fondly.
How about new IPs?
Actually good ones?
They are more comfortable making money off of old online garbage rather than actually spending it on something entirely new
Every decision Ubisoft and companies of that ilk made this Gen was a betrayal and a slap in the face of every fan that grew up with their games and fell in love with them
This gen?
They’ve been doing it since the 7th generation, milking the same IPs with yearly releases, making sequels and remakes of old IPs with dumbed down gameplay and adding copious amonts of DLC and microtransactions into every game, making online only games or games that focus too much on multiplayer so console folk keep paying their annual fee.
This has been the norm on the 360 and PS3 since 2007, people were laughing at Oblivions horse armor DLC and now people accept it like it’s totally fine.
I just checkout out the differences between the current and last gen because I was thinking about how little games I cared about in current gen. Gaming was far better in the X360 era for new IPs, even if they did get milked for years after.
7th Gen was great for it’s first couple of years and then it went down the sh**ter.
Agreed, there just hasn’t been anything recently that changed the landscape like the stuff back then. Fallout/ Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect trilogy, Halo 3, Gears of War, Bioshock, CoD, Dead Rising, Assassins Creed, Left 4 Dead, Portal.
Now we get what? Dying Light and some PS4 Assassins Creed clones?
Lol irony blind interneters are the best.
You: Enough remasters and remakes!
Also you: Just give us the exact same trash games you made over and over and over and over for the past 18 years!
Although yes Siege and Ubisoft should FOAD and Red Storm should be revived to make a real R6 game again.
Get your finger out of my face
Now back away
I want my games to have pretty graphics, good music, new stories and settings but with the same old formula that made me fall in love with them in the first place, sue me! Not the EXACT same game that was released a decade ago. No body cares abour your idiotic choice of games the same way no body cares about mine
So chill
Well said, Hideo.
wow, unaspected.
Sony fanboy cant catch a break.
$ony fanboys will cry blood because of this.
Oh thank god. Just let Metal Gear Solid die already. I think the bad games already outnumber the good ones.
Pretty much, I haven’t really enjoyed one since MGS3. 5 was okay but felt unfinished.
Because it’s literally missing the final chapter.
There’s only 1 subjectively bad MGS game and that’s MGS 4, I can’t stand it tbh.
MGS 5 was maybe missing the last hour or two of content but thats a not much when the game can take over 50 hours to complete, and it had far less cut scenes than MGS4. The multiplayer was also awesome and I sunk plenty more hours into that as well. Somehow I have 577 hours on Steam total, but I think a lot of that was from just leaving the game on.
The other MGS games were all great, even the PSP one.
I dunno man. I really dislike the direction the series went after 3. The mission type based gameplay made sense for the PSP titles (which I didn’t enjoy either), but made little to no sense for MGS5. I rather have 4-12 hours of gameplay that I fully enjoy than 50 hours of mediocre gameplay, levels, story and characters.
Less cut scenes actually hurt it. What little story we had was unfinished, poorly told, mostly dumb and hurt the characters. The levels were bland and forgettable and the game pacing of the game was actively hurt by the decision to go open world.
The PSP titles didn’t wow me either. I actually enjoyed the ones Hideo was not involved in more. I thought he lost his damn mind with Peace Walker.
I pretty much gave up on the story after 4. The writing in that is just horrible. I was fine with the open world setting because I enjoyed playing with the mechanics on a larger scale.
One thing about MGS 1-4 that was kind of annoying for me was how limited the gameplay was since it was so linear. There would be great mechanics only applicable in certain parts of the game.
I think the biggest thing that hurt the story was Kojima’s co-writer leaving after 3. Kojima’s storytelling comes off as just bat-sh*t insane without someone to keep it somewhat grounded within reality.
I thought the ending tied things up nicely despite missing some stuff and the final twist was pretty cool. Kojima had some great overall ideas for the story but the stuff in between can be pretty cringy. Even MGS3 has a lot of moments where I’m really put off by the story.
As for you original comment though I’d say…
Good: MGS 1-3, and MGS5.
Mediocre to Bad: MGS4, PSP games (only played some of Peace Walker), Ac!d doesn’t count IMO.
Not exactly reason to abandon the franchise.
SHM, Kojima senpai and arrogant Sony should stay AWAY from Silent Hill name forever. I don’t like this.
you prefer to stay in Konami’s hand? even before they turned into a crap pachinko/mobile games company this series was being massacred since silent hill homecoming
Kojima needs to make a good game because DS seems to be a flop eventhough I was excited earlier and will check out when PC version releases.
Good. I really don’t want a first person SH game with a bunch of celebrities.
As false as using Norman as a Thumbnail post for those specific IPs
Kojima is overrated but he’s not stupid.