Hideo Kojima Thinks ‘Way We Make Games Won’t Translate Globally’
It’s foreign game panic day! Like Jun Takeuchi, Hideo Kojima is worried about Western games and Western developers. He tells Japanese magazine Famitsu what he’s going to do about it.
Kojima mentions that he plans to “start from zero” this year in hopes of competing globally. The game creator says that his company Kojima Productions is undergoing heavy internal review to forge “a team that can challenge foreign creators and software houses.” Adds the Metal Gear developer:
I’ve thought a lot about how Western games have been winning, looking it from a global perspective, and there are things that I’ve noticed…
I’ve come to understand that the way we’ve made games up until now won’t translate globally, and I’ve come to think that I need to make Kojima Productions a team that can compete alongside the rest of the world.
That’s nice and all, but didn’t Metal Gear Solid 4 do better abroad than domestically? Quick, somebody inform Kojima!
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“That’s nice and all, but didn’t Metal Gear Solid 4 do better abroad than domestically? Quick, somebody inform Kojima!”
Purely because it was a MGS title. Kojima could’ve gone to the bathroom in a can and people would’ve paid for a collectors edition…