Kojima has 'no idea' what MGS5 will be

Metal Gear Solid 5 isn't in active development yet, as series creator Hideo Kojima says his company has "no idea" what the game will be.

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Depending on your level of super-fan, you might have seen last week's intriguing tease of Metal Gear Solid 5 and instantly began outfitting yourself with jungle camo as you await further instructions. Not so fast there, Solid Snake. Apparently the next Metal Gear is still very much up in the air -- so much so that Hideo Kojima himself says his company has "no idea" what the game will be.

"I think we’ll probably have to make it at some point, but what that will be, we have no idea," Kojima said in a newly-released tease for the UK's PlayStation Official Magazine. This new quote sheds light on last week's story, sounding less like an active project and more like an eventual one. Either Kojima is playing dumb, or Metal Gear Solid 5 isn't even out of the design doc stage yet. We'll report more on its development process, or lack thereof, as information becomes available.

Kojima also chimed in on how hands-off he plans to be with the game, once it gets rolling. He says he was intimately involved with the first game, and wanted to hand the wheel to a successor with MGS4. "I intended to take it to a certain point and then hand it off, but that didn’t work, because it's hard to convey the concept to other people then have them take the reins and carry on and preserve that vision. That's why it’s easier to have them come up with everything from the start and then take it to the end."

Who would have guessed that Kojima has trouble giving up meticulous control of his pet project? Besides everyone, we mean.

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    November 21, 2011 1:45 PM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Kojima has 'no idea' what MGS5 will be.

    Metal Gear Solid 5 isn't in active development yet, as series creator Hideo Kojima says his company has "no idea" what the game will be.

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      November 21, 2011 1:46 PM

      Breaking news story about MSG5: There is currently no news about MGS5

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      November 21, 2011 1:48 PM

      Ok check this out:

      There are these nanomachies...created by nanomachines.

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        November 21, 2011 2:11 PM

        Turns out they create a grey goo which is an amorphous parallel computer network capable of simulating reality which is required for distributed computing of further production of nanomachines. Otherwise they have no reason to continue to reproduce so their existence would be meaningless which goes against the very nature of existence so they have to fabricate existence in order to exist.

        Kojima, call me.

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      November 21, 2011 1:59 PM

      DIdn't they say the next Playstation magazine was going to have details on MGS5? What details? It's on playstation, you sneak.

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      November 21, 2011 2:16 PM

      Snake goes to fight terrorists and discovers someone has built a new........ METAL GEAR!?

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        November 21, 2011 2:16 PM

        im telling you guys, only something this epic would be viable for a new MGS. mark my words.

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      November 21, 2011 2:53 PM

      when are they going to talk about MGRising?

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      November 21, 2011 2:57 PM

      kinda crazy how MGS's relevance has plummeted since the previous generation

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        November 21, 2011 3:58 PM

        Just like GT5

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          November 21, 2011 4:03 PM

          was it timing or what? MGS2 and GT3 were early in the PS2 life but the first releases in the PS3 era were too late in the cycle? Then they got 2nd releases out in the same generation? Or did MGS just lose its ability to rope in new fans? (GT has obviously been dealing with Forza as competition too)

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            November 21, 2011 4:15 PM

            It was the perfect storm, PS3 release date pricing, timing of the PS3 launch, distance between each game etc - they dropped the ball and simply can't pick it back up. Also those games are from a different era and somewhat less meaningful now. They let other people take their positions as AAA+ games.

            God of War for example holds much more weight than MGS now - at least for Sony it's still their property but Forza for example must be eating in to GT5 sales.

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            November 21, 2011 5:08 PM

            Its the compounded impact of American developers taking over the industry. Based on technology alone, Japanese developers are still a generation behind. Not just in polygon counts and art assets, but in the way their game engines work. For whatever reason, their development community hasn't kept up with this hardware cycle.

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        November 21, 2011 4:14 PM

        I think it's because we're now seeing the first generation that grew up with American games (GTA, Halo) rather than Japanese games (MGS, FF, Mario/Zelda.) The weirdness/cultural difference in those franchises is more glaring now, whereas in the 80s/90s all American gamers knew was basically Japanese games. Just a theory.

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          November 21, 2011 5:16 PM

          japanese games have definitely gotten more... distinct, however, apart from the new competition

          like in the 80s all the popular japanese games in the US tended to be knock-offs of american movies and cartoons and stuff (often blatantly so) but since the 90s onward they became increasingly self-referential, or referential to stuff that was mostly seen in japan and not america.

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      November 21, 2011 2:57 PM

      This just in: Sony offers a large barrel of money to Kojima-san to create another game that prevents their console from disappearing off the shelves.

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        November 21, 2011 3:33 PM

        Sweet lets turns this into a console bashing contest! Idiot... I'm happy with MG4, who wouldn't want more snake though!?? It's like Rambo4 and its ending... Unless Kojima has something up his sleeves... I'd say whatever I'd be down for a 5th...

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          November 21, 2011 4:07 PM

          Bwahahaha. I've bought every MGS title (Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) that wasn't on a portable system at least 2x times. I'm no 360 hater and I'd be buying this title on day 0.

          Games like this sell a systems. If Sony wants to hit some metric of consoles sold, all they need to do is crank out another MGS.

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      November 21, 2011 5:12 PM

      I'm not entirely sure he knew what MGS4 was.

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