One Reason Why Hideo Kojima Put MGS: Peace Walker On The PSP

There has to be a reason, no? Metal Gear Solid designer Hideo Kojima could have put the game on home consoles, but he chose portables.

Here's at least one reason why: In an interview with Famitsu, Kojima told Assassin's Creed II developer Pierre and Pierre's beard:

Really, I don't think much about whether a platform's portable or for the home. In other words, it's not important to me. With the PS3, you've got a whole range of middle- and

high-school kids who can't play your game because their parents don't let them play video games at home. Those kids can whine at their parents all day about how the game's anti-war

and anti-nukes, but they'll just respond 'Well, you're still killing people with guns, aren't you?' and brush it off.

I wanted to go the extra mile for gamers in that sort of situation. That was one of the reasons I chose the PSP.

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source: http://kotaku.com/5387114/one-reason-why-hideo-kojima-put-mgs-peace-walker-on-the-psp

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Kojima isn't doing it for me or you, he's doing it for the kids.

 

Eh...I wanted to see this game on PS3, but no problem, I guess.

I remember a while back that he was interested in the handheld crowd and how interested young gamers were with the PSP.

Didn't know he was actually thinking of using the platform for the next full blown Metal Gear.

He seems to be targetting an audience that probably wouldn't even understand that the game has an anti-war theme...

^ He is targeting high-school kids!

No he is targeting for the most profit.

After the attention MGS4 got, even with casual gamers, which wasn't it target audience, he is trying to make quick profit making a game for a cheaper to develop plataform that already enjoys 55million users and is getting more users because of Sony focus on revitalizing the PSP.

Sony definitely promised advertising support and asked Konami to make MGS for PSP. There is a reason all publishers are making game for PSP now, Sony is giving advantages to making PSP games and pushing the publishers. Same for valkria chronicles2, SE games, Dante inferno, Assasin creed. Every major publishers has a PSP games on the pipeline, if they don't is because they haven't announced yet.

The PSP has a huge success on japan, which alone can sell enough to turn profit for konami since japaneses like MGS. And the worldwide appeal of the franchise will help sells hardware outside of japan, wich is what Sony wants.

Kojima you sassy little minx you.
You get those kids and show them a good time!

PW on the PSP wont sell as much as MGS4 (PSP piracy problem). so i dont think profit was the driving force of his decision

@nen-suer it will sell less but it will also cost less to make and take less time

And here I thought he was doing it for the Shorties...