DonFerrari said:
Metal Gear isn't the only IP he does, and we don't know if the problem was MG or Konami that he was trying to run from. There is Castlevania and Silent Hill as well |
I know it wasn't the only IP. But Kojima has been very vocal about wanting to move away from Metal Gear for a long time now. Metal Gear Solid 3 was supposed to be his last and it made 3 after that, rumored to be due to pressure from Konami since it made them a pile of money, and not from his own desires to keep going with the franchise. I think his involvement with Silent Hills was his attempt to break away from the image that he's "the metal gear guy" and firmly establish that he could make great games across multiple genres. I think that P.T. was made to prove to Konami that his vision for the horror genre would be accepted by wide audiences, and I think that was leveraged into Kojima getting the green light on Silent Hills, and maybe more of his way on creative freedom and budget. Then, shortly after it was announced Silent Hills gets cancelled - probably because one of the other heads of Konami saw a deadline get pushed back or a schedule get adjusted, or a budget increased, and one thing lead to another...
As a result, MGSV got pushed out 6 months to a year before Kojima would have signed off on it, just to get Kojima out of the door, and Kojima walked into the welcoming arms of Sony, who will throw fistfuls of money at him because they know what kind of following the man commands. Now we have bizarro shit like Death Stranding coming out, and I'm just waiting for Kojima to take me for another ride.
As for whether not not he wants Silent Hill's IP back? I'm getting the itching feeling that the only reason it was "Silent Hills" in the first place is Konami's attempt at mitigating the risk of the project by attaching it to an established franchise. Death Stranding could be closer to Kojima's original vision for the game that would have turned into Silent Hills in the first place.
*** None of this has any basis using any verifiable source. It's just how I mentallly pieced together how I think the split between Kojima and Konami happened in a very broad sense ***
