Hideo Kojima was one of the guests of honors at today's Xbox 360 press conference, taking the mic directly from Microsoft VP Don Mattrick to introduce someone who went on to introduceMetal Gear Solid Rising.

But Kojima's status for tomorrow's Sony press conference, and indeed his relationship with Sony as a whole, is in question now thanks to an incident that occurred following the MS presser.

As Kojima detailed at his his Twitter late in the day, he and his staff went to pick up the wrist bands that would serve as their tickets for the Sony conference. They were told "Please put this on your arm now." "Even though it's tomorrow?" wondered Kojima. Producer Kenichiro Imaizumi asked, "Are we supposed to wear this in the bath and when we sleep?" (Man, I hope he said "shower" instead of "bath" though.) He was told, "It's waterproof. Or would you rather come again tomorrow and wait 20 minutes?"

This little passage brings up a question. Why exactly does Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear Solid 4, which is still a PlayStation 3 exclusive, have to get a wrist band to attend any Sony event? This presumably means that he won't be speaking at the event.

After being told that some 600 people are wearing the band, Kojima gave up, put it on and took this picture.

Continued his Tweet: "It will be there until tomorrow. I can't take it off. I'm going to have dinner with Hollywood people now, and it doesn't look good. This is unbelievable!"

Kojima should have introduced MGS Rising's Zandatsu mechanics to the receptionist.

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lol I guess he wasn't important enough this year

IT COULD ALSO BE That IT HAD his seat number

anyways KOJIMA should ge more help

oooooowwwwwwww, someone is expandable

Are you sure you don't mean expendable rather then expandable? Both statements make sense your either complimenting Kojima for the fact that he can play both sides of the field, or your mocking Sony for casting him off without consideration.

Speaking to the story. I would say it was poor public relations in regards to the most basic responsibility. How hard is it to smile, and be polite. Especially over a damn bracelet, and you know it probably wasn't personal. The person handing out the bands just wasn't very polite with people. Which means that the first step Sony made was to piss people off, and that is all it takes to get someone who is fence sitting about whether they like a product to tip over on the negative side.

Someday someone is going to realize good help is worth the extra money. Especially since you probably going to lose more for having bad help.