Kojima, and Sony together in holy matrimony.

its not "microsofts fault", its just that partnering up with MS would make little sense. and the best partner for Kojima right now is Sony.

It's probably the fault of how game development works and how expensive it is, and it's important to remember that expensive big budget games are the specialty of Kojima and the team behind him. Besides, they've always had a good business relationship with Sony.

I'm afraid Microsoft will find it harder and harder to strike deals with third parties while the sales gap is so big, third parties will look at the fact the ps4 has 32+ million potential sales out there compared to xboxs 17million. They will also look at what's happened to Rise of the tomb raider, I havnt played it but I'm 100% positive it's a fantastic game but it has flopped massively with sales, things like that will scare third parties away from the Xbox, these developers want their money back from development costs.

Is he snubbing Xbox though? For whatever reason Kojima felt that best chance at a new beginning was to partner up with Sony at least for his first game. Or to put it less charitably, hold out his hat and see if Sony would throw enough money into it. Way I see it, if you make a strategic decision that your best opportunity for success is to partner up with one platform then that is not the same as snubbing another.

Perhaps I interpret "snub" differently, but to me a snub is looking at two options that can be equally good, and choosing option A over Option B because you don't like the person who is offering option B. In Kojima's case I think it was more option PS4 offers significantly more benefits for Kojima than option Xb one and therefore it is logical to go for option PS4 and no disrespect or ill feeling towards Xb one.

Haha I love this.  They're basically saying Vgchartz is shit but we're going to use their numbers anyway but I doesn't make us shit!  

The hypocrisy! 

Kojima knows that it has a higher chance of selling a good game on ps4 than xb1 considering the history of kojima with the platform. Partnering with MS might produce another Tomb Raider scenario plus more backlash from Sony fans. In other words, getting the required funding from a big publisher plus having the best platform available for your game provide a higher chance of success than the other way around. I have a feeling we won't be seeing more third parties deal from MS for the rest of the gen after scalebound.

That part of the article hurt ;~;

Zone of Enders?

Hironobu Sakaguchi developed two japanese games for Xbox 360. He did it because he hates Sony. And now what is he developing? Kojima loves Playstation and both are from Japan. Why bother with Microsoft?