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theprof00 on 19 March 2015

2. Corporate Officers (Effective April 1, 2015)
Executive Officer
Katsunori Okita
Executive Officer
Sadaaki Kaneyoshi
Corporate Officer
Shoji Dewa (Newly appointed)
Corporate Officer
Masato Okuaki (Newly appointed)
Corporate Officer
Kazutaka Kubota (Newly appointed)
Corporate Officer
Shinji Hirano (Newly appointed)

My guess is that he expected to be appointed to the board, and was snubbed for the 4 above, so he lashed out and is disbanding and going independant.



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Turkish on 19 March 2015

Hopefully it's true. Then I can ignore Konami completely (well outside PES).
Kojima definitely needs to try something new.



Cloudman on 19 March 2015

I guess the guy wants to stop making MGS games, and this is the only way to do so. Hasn't Kojima wanted to move on since 3 or 4? Poor guy likely wants to do other things.



 

              

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Turkish on 19 March 2015
kowenicki said:
RolStoppable said:
Konami has scaled back on their game output for a while now, so I wouldn't be surprised if their movie division takes a hit too.


brilliant.

OT

The guy is 51.. he was bound to start slowing down soon.


Miyamoto is 62, the years haven't slowed him down, look what he made in the last 10 years lol. Kojima is probably just tired of doing MGS.



NobleTeam360 on 19 March 2015

Doesn't surprise me, this was the only way he was was going to be able to stop making MGS games.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 19 March 2015

I will believe it when I see it



                  

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PieToast on 19 March 2015

Let's remember before we predict who this man will work for next is that the rumors came from Konami removing Kojima Productions studio from their websites and social media accounts. Maybe the whole studio will break off from Konami, or maybe they're just changing the logo.



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sterner on 19 March 2015

If he didn't finish the story content this gonna be bigger disaster than Metroid: Other M. Damn you game industry, that was the last AAA game I was hyped for.



ktay95 on 19 March 2015
shikamaru317 said:
Didn't Kojima recently suggest that MGS V would be the last MGS game? So maybe he wanted to move on to new IP's and Konami wasn't happy about that, so Kojima and his team left Konami?

Lol all of KojiPro leaving, good joke. If Kojima left however KojiPro would likely be named KCEJ like they were back making MGS1. No need for the KojiPro logo then.