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baph72 on 03 July 2008
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Snatcher was released for MSX, Sega CD, and Japanese PS1; Policenauts was released for 3DO, Japanese Sega Saturn, and Japanese PS1. Both titles are considered to be amongst the greatest games ever made and they were highly influential games in the establishing of Kojima as the auteur that he is today. There are millions of game fans around the world that have been waiting since the mid- nineties to play these games in another language besides Japanese and millions of fans of Kojima that probably haven't studied the history of Japanese video games but loved the Metal Gear series and will be very eager to pick up whatever Kojima decides to do next. Now that Kojima has completed his Metal Gear Solid saga, he is free to move on and do much the same thing that he did with MGS with Snatcher and Policenauts. In effect, reinvent their game play for this generation and reintroduce his greatest games for their widest possible audiences.

Itagaki loves Ninjas. He is very much going to love having the chance to do awesome things with Raiden. One of the reasons he left Tecmo and MS was that he wanted to make longer more cinematic games than the 360's dvd drive would allow him to make and now he is able to do that by continuing on a classic franchise and taking it in unexplored directions at Konami. Itagaki once said he could take any franchise in gaming and make it better. And now he has the opportunity to demonstrate his ability to do so. He's looking for a new gig and MGS is looking for its new producer. A man that Kojima said was going to be a little younger than himself to tell the story of Raiden.

Playstation fans love action adventure games. And Yu Suzuki's Shenmue series is one of the greatest games ever in the action adventure genre. Fans of Shenmue have had to be content the last few years with Yakuza games on PS2. Yakuza 2 is coming to the American PS2 this September. Yakuza Sidestory Kenshin is one of the best video games to be released this year. Play Magazine's Play Japan awarded it a review score of 10 and said that prior to the release of MGS 4 that it was the most mature Japanese game to be released on any console in this generation. Hopefully, Kenshin will be coming out on the American PS3 this holiday season. Yesterday, it was announced that the official Yakuza 3 is now in development, and it will also be coming to PS3. I believe that the success of Yakuza I and II on PS2 combined with the success of Kenshin and Yakuza 3 on PS3 will result in the continuation of the Shenmue Saga which fans of the series have been anxiously waiting for since 2002.

Finally, on the next to the last line of IGN's release dates for PS3 games, it says,
"TBA 2010 -- Silicon Knights' Psychological Thriller Project [untitled]." What was Eternal Darkness? A Psychological Thriller. Who developed Eternal Darkness? Silicon Knights. If this untitled project isn't officially Eternal Darkness 2, I would say that it very certainly is unofficially Eternal Darkness 2.

This holiday season, you have Sega's Kenshin, Infamous, Resistance 2, Little Big Planet, and possibly White Knight Story coming exclusively to the PS3.

In Spring of 2009, you have Killzone 2, God of War III, Gran Turismo 5, and Final Fantasy XIII coming exclusively to the PS3.

By Holiday 2009, you have Hideo Kojima's Snatcher or Policenauts II, Uncharted 2, Sega's Yakuza 3, and Final Fantasy Versus XIII coming exclusively to PS3.

And in 2010, you have Itagaki's Metal Gear Solid 5, Silicon Knight's Untitled Psychological Thriller (Eternal Darkness II), Suzuki's Shenmue 3, and Final Fantasy VII Remake, in the quality it should be, all coming exclusively to PS3. There's no way the PS3 is going to fail to make its impact on this console generation and when the smoke clears, the PS3 will once again be standing on the top of the mountain by the end of this console generation.