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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
It's rather the other way around: Kojima was fed up with Konami's new management. The new CEO didn't really know anything about videogames or who Mr. Kojima was. He treated Mr. Kojima very disrespectfully, telling him that he wasn't really all that important to the Metal Gear franchise.
The new management is strictly business-focused. They believe that free-to-play mobile titles are the future. From a business standpoint, such reorientation may be the right thing to do. From a creative standpoint, this is unacceptable to someone like Mr. Kojima.
I don't know what you mean by "look at what was finally released of MGS5", either. The title was very well received by critics and sold very well, too - unlike Duke Nukem Forever.
What the hell are you talking about? MGS5 made 179 million on launch day, at a budget of 80 million.
https://www.vg247.com/2015/10/15/metal-gear-solid-5-made-twi...
The only complaint that Konami is going to have is that they didn't make their money back fast enough, when they could've produced countless shitty free-to-play titles instead of MGS5. With Mr. Kojima gone, that's the future we all can look forward to now.