Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Solid series, has said at this morning’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker conference that the video game console is dying – making portable the way to go.
“In the near future, we’ll have games that don’t depend on any platform,” Kojima said at the conference.
“Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel — wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience.”
“I looked at this in part as an experiment aimed at the future,” he finished.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Hiroshi Kawano called it a “bold prediction” and hopes Kojima will continue to develop for consoles.
“It’s a bold prediction,” Kawano told reporters with a nervous smile. “We hope he continues to develop for platforms, but we deeply respect his sense of taking on a challenge.”
Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker launches in Japan at the end of this month and in June out west. Another, younger team is heading the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game Metal Gear Solid: Rising, due to release sometime this year.
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Lmao…I guess this is his way of saying…I dont have the skills to make a great game on a game console anymore….So I wanna make a half ass portable version
Koji u r nuts, but we love u eitherway, just bring to us a new great ip for hd consoles, its about dam time.
New IP? That’d be nice, but what I really want is ZOE3.
The only mech game I truly enjoyed.
I consider Kojima a bit of a genius and most people of that mind set are normally unbalanced and aren’t always in touch with reality 24 hours a day.
This is also the same guy who’s claimed that he wasn’t going to make any more Metal Gear games after Metal Gear Solid for the PSOne. Since then we’ve had 3 sequels, 3 PSP games and 2 director’s cut-style games from MGS2 and MGS3. And after each major sequel he would declare this was his last so there’s no reason to take anything he says seriously.
I still love his work but he’s clearly out of his mind.
I bet he is talking about the idea behind “onLive”, streamed gaming with no need for a console. It’s a great and promising idea but so much can go wrong. :P
This kind of statement is made once a year by some bold figure, and nothing happened yet. I think it’s over exaggerated – as always with such claims.