http://news.spong.com/article/16832/Kojima_Drops_Xbox_Hint
Metal Gear creator and longtime pal of the PlayStation, Hideo Kojima, has told Japanese gaming bible, Famitsu, that 2009 will see his company starting 'from Zero' in an attempt to compete globally.
Kojima tells the outlet, "We're currently reviewing everything - from the team structure to tools and our staff - in order to make Kojima Productions a team that can challenge foreign creators and software houses."
With every aspect of the business under review - and with gamers outside of Japan in focus - this reads very much like a veiled hint that Kojima could be looking to Microsoft and the Xbox 360. In September last year, a Square Enix made the same nod to globalisation. He (or she) told The Financial Times, "The Japanese games industry is standing at a crossroads, and whether it will stay at the centre of the global games industry, or whether it will lose that position, is now unclear."
Of course, that was after it had signed up with Microsoft to release Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 in territories outside of Japan.
