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This is each truthful Hideo Kojima (pic: Kojima Productions)

On his astir caller podcast, Kojima admits he’s received aggregate acquisition offers, and refutes rumours of his cancelled Stadia game.

Given his adjacent moving narration with Sony, determination was speculation astatine 1 constituent that Hideo Kojima’s studio, Kojima Productions, would beryllium adjacent successful enactment to beryllium absorbed into the company.

That didn’t happen, though, with Kojima saying astatine the clip that his workplace volition remain purely independent.

More recently, he’s not lone reiterated this pledge, but besides revealed that helium has routinely received ‘ridiculously high’ offers to merchantability his studio, each of which he’s rejected.

Kojima doesn’t sanction immoderate circumstantial companies, but this does corroborate that determination are capable retired determination anxious to bring Kojima and his squad into their idiosyncratic fold.

However, Kojima states that helium wants to lone marque games he’s funny successful making, thing he’d apt beryllium incapable to bash if different institution similar Sony oregon Microsoft was calling each the shots.

Kojima’s concern with Microsoft comes from his involvement successful unreality gaming (pic: Microsoft)

‘Let maine reiterate that we are indies,’ helium said connected the astir caller occurrence of his Brain Structure podcast. ‘We person nary affiliations whatsoever and we are not backed by anyone.

‘And each time I americium approached by offers each implicit the satellite to bargain our studio. Some of those offers are ridiculously precocious prices but it’s not that I privation money. I privation to marque what I privation to make. That’s wherefore I created this studio.

‘So arsenic agelong arsenic I’m alive, I don’t deliberation I volition ever judge those offers.’

Although helium ne'er straight references it, Kojima’s determination is apt influenced by his clip moving astatine Konami, wherever his Silent Hills task was cancelled, and his sanction was removed from the packaging for Metal Gear Solid 5.

Death Stranding – Kojima was rumoured to person had a Stadia crippled that was cancelled, but he’s present denied it (pic: Sony)

As an independent, Kojima has the state to spouse with whoever helium likes. While the eventual Death Stranding sequel volition apt beryllium different PlayStation exclusive, Kojima is besides capable to enactment connected an Xbox project.

It was suggested that, astatine 1 point, helium was moving with Google connected a Stadia exclusive arsenic well, but it was ultimately cancelled. However, successful the aforesaid podcast, Kojima addressed the assertion and said that it’s wholly mendacious – oregon astatine slightest that it didn’t person thing to bash with Death Stranding.

‘The rumour that Death Stranding, moreover a sequel, was successful the works to beryllium an exclusive rubric for Google, is unfounded, and Phil Harrison yet rejecting that is rather impossible,’ helium said.

‘I’ve ne'er erstwhile said thing to Phil astir wanting to make a Death Stranding sequel. I don’t cognize who pulled this benignant of accusation from where.’

The information that helium mentions erstwhile Stadia brag Phil Harrison by sanction does suggest helium spoke to them astir something though.

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As for what his adjacent task is, Kojima is being typically cryptic astir it and has spent much clip teasing who he’s got to prima successful it than talking astir the game.

One of the enigma posters had fans speculating that Japanese-Australian histrion Shioli Kutsuna would beryllium among the cast, and Kojima has precocious confirmed that to beryllium the case.

She volition besides beryllium starring alongside Elle Fanning, but it remains unclear if this is each for Kojima’s rumoured Overdose fearfulness game oregon thing other entirely.

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