"Please don't ever buy a PlayStation again! We want you to hate us" -PlayStation execs for some fucking reason.

The rise of Liquidated Snake

Xbox? The same Xbox that cut it's game studios into pieces?

PlayStation is making some choices these days.

I wouldn't want to keep feeding Kojima millions upon millions for his vanity projects either, to be honest.

Strange that Xbox decided to pay up.

They aren't trying to get you to spend money on them. They are going after the guy that thinks buying thousands of FIFA 24 packs is a sound investment.

As a last resort?

And then immediately after that they put out the Wolverine game. XD

Hey, it's Sony again. Can we piss away any remaining goodwill you guys have?

I mean, I guess it's deal with an actively hostile gaming company or deal with a flailing dumbass gaming company.

There is a third option.

They’re really interesting, well thought out games. They are art. That being said, they’re not system sellers and they don’t have the mass appeal of some other aaa games. They certainly don’t rake in mtx money either.

But the the thing is, doing those types of things that create good will and loving fans (however niche) make people forget, even a little, that these corpos are dickbags and we shouldn’t give them our money. Not every new game can break sales records. They need to keep good games on their system or they’ll go the way of Sega.

+2

Yes, but two key things here

1. They are not owned by Xbox and therefore can’t be cut. Xbox could only end their partnership.
2. Sony literally just did that to them lol

Kojima isn't much different, sure he loves making games, but he will happily see you part with your money. Sony and the media just turned him into some kind of legend and developed a cult following around him. His games are what you said, his and his teams art, but they don't live up to the hype and anticipation the media generates. They would be well suited as self-published niche games, rather than forced AAA titles.

kojima is a hack.

listen i love the mechanics of his games. the attention to detail, the art direction.

but his stories are kinda crap. his best games were made when he was forced to answer to authority. when given cart balanche he meanders around the plot, gets distracted, dumps the narrative to chase some shinyer meta narrative that is not set up, and never ever pays off. and i have played all his games always hoping to get back to that high of the original metal gear solid, or metal gear solid 3 (fuck you metal gear solid 2). and Death Stranding stole its world building from Blades in the Dark.

i can spend hours dissecting his overrated ass

In an attempt to suffocate what is left of their user base.

I agree! Except, Sega had great games, it just had poor timing in the console race with Saturn and Dreamcast.

They certainly don’t seem to give a fuck

I got your reference/joke and I want you to know this and feel affirmed.

Hideo should embrace Linux Gaming at this point. Changing blue to green would not yield him success.

Hideo needs money. He can support Linux all he wants but he needs the money to make the game first.

Projects on Xbox just means, Xbox is the studio, and it will release on everything except playstation.

Better than Playstations nonsense, atleast we will get it on PC. Just not sure why Sony decided to destroy everything good about Playstation, must be looking to exit the market?

I agree with every point you make except the conclusion that he's an overrated hack. I was rolling my eyes through every cutscene of Death Stranding 2 (except the electric guitar fights which were incredible for the naked spectacle), but his inability to rein in his silliest indulgences is a relatively minor facet of his overall artistic merit in this medium.

The guy's a certified auteur, and like most of them, he has some serious gaps in his repertoire. But when you play a Kojima game, you're almost always going to play something completely unlike anything else on the market, and there's a solid chance you're going to have a blast doing it.

the criticism comes from a place where he has consistently missed his potential, and he is over rated due to this, it goes into hack status when he gets high on his own supply. if i didn’t care deeply for his work i would not care enough to have such a strong opinion.

his self indulgence in these accolades should not be encouraged, and he should not be given infinite time, infinate money, and infinite control on a project unless you expect him to continue to succumb to his problems of meandering story, overspending, and spectacal at the cost of the narrative.

he is an artist, a visionary, and a hack, and sometimes art is defined by its constraints

he is an artist, a visionary, and a hack
Haha, fair enough.

He can support Linux by embracing Valve. He'd sell there I am very sure.

He could ask Gabe Newell for a small loan of a billion dollars.