20th October 2015, 9:14 PM
Here's the funny thing. Konami is claiming that Kojima's only on vacation.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/10/it...-vacation/
From what I understand, a recently massively popular pay to play mobile game (only in Japan) made Konami a huge amount of money, and as a result the lead on that project ended up in charge of the whole shebang. There was some sort of huge internal restructuring, and well, here we are.
Mind you, Konami has always had an issue spending money they didn't think they needed to. Just look at the NES manuals, for example. They didn't even TRY to translate them. They appear to have got the nearest stoner to make up whatever made them laugh the most and stick that in the manual. In the case of Metal Gear, a dialog-heavy game, it's additionally ridiculous because the in-game text doesn't match up at all with whatever the manual is saying.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/10/it...-vacation/
From what I understand, a recently massively popular pay to play mobile game (only in Japan) made Konami a huge amount of money, and as a result the lead on that project ended up in charge of the whole shebang. There was some sort of huge internal restructuring, and well, here we are.
Mind you, Konami has always had an issue spending money they didn't think they needed to. Just look at the NES manuals, for example. They didn't even TRY to translate them. They appear to have got the nearest stoner to make up whatever made them laugh the most and stick that in the manual. In the case of Metal Gear, a dialog-heavy game, it's additionally ridiculous because the in-game text doesn't match up at all with whatever the manual is saying.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)