Konami Fired Hideo Kojima, According to Voice Actress

Christ. I think Konami is rivaling Square Enix as most inept company.

Why would you get rid of your biggest asset? That's like Square dumping Hironobu Saka... Oh. Wait. I mean, that's like Capcom ditching Keiji Ina... Oh. Er. I mean that's like Sega sacking Yuji Na... Oh... Dammit!

Sometimes people can have a big head and think they can get away with anything in a job setting.

@Bigdoggy You mean Kojima or guys who fired him?

Kojima. Sometimes you can get so big where you think you can get away with everything. Who knows what happened though. Maybe Sony should pick him for future projects.

@Kage_88 @Bigdoggy Sega should hire him to reinvent the shenmue series. !!!!!

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Ha. I guess it's Nintendo's turn next. Miyamoto sacked!

Hes always had direct control over the MG series, and look how they have all turned out.
Excellent story telling, acting and gameplay.
If they have fired him for silly reasons such as pay or something, then Konami just lost its biggest asset.

It's obvious something happened. Nobody but those involved will ever know the full truth. But it's worse for Konami than it is Kojima. He will find work. Konami on the other hand has become an even bigger joke than it already was. The stupidity running rampant at the top of these companies is unreal.

Haha, Where is the SHOCKING INTERVIEW with Pedro Lopez talking about Kojima's departure from Konami!?
Jeremy has one, surely Kojima has/deserves one, right ?

@get2sammyb I think it's someone's else ego involved. I mean, Kojima is the most famous and praised person in game industry. His ego should be just fine. But those top managers, you just can't trust them =).

Hmm, so Kojima may join Pushsquare after all

@XFsWorld

Maybe all these Japanese industry veterans should form a company of their own called "Screw You Guys" and wipe the floor with the lot of them.

The death of Konami has hastened.

Sad news, but maybe it's just time for new talents to take over? Kojima cant live forever, anyway. But who knows. And we can't live on ps 1 legacy forever, either.

Konami won't die, Games aren't the sole thing keeping them afloat.

I'm still baffled as to why he would get sacked in the first place, but I have a feeling the chance we'll get the story anytime soon is nil.

I hope Phantom Pain doesn't get a wrench thrown into it.

@Quorthon That would be unthinkable of nintendo to do that, but then this was unthinkable for Konami. It will be weird to think how Nintendo will be once miyamoto steps down.

I hope kojima and his staff either develop and publish there own games or work freelance because I think they would be better off not being tied down to companies like Konami

I'm just hoping Phantom Pain doesn't go the route of what Activision did to Destiny. Obviously the companies can't speak up about it but it's obvious they stripped the game and monetized every little bit they could.

Seems about right since Activision its not a Movie producer

Off-topic, if thats true, it sucks and i dont think its the right choice, maybe let him create a 2nd party studio

Darn...

I'd say that was a bold move. Imagine Nintendo firing Miyamoto. O.O

Loving the exclamation mark, btw. Made me chuckle a bit.

I'm interested to know the real reason behind this decision. That's like Darth Sidious giving Vader the boot. "Vader, I regret to inform you the dark side is taking a new direction, and your replacement will be Mr. Burns".
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It'll be Konami last big release then or its a publicity stunt, thank god MGSV is almost finished as its in the debugging stage I believe, also the original team is still on development.

@Kage_88 Well it's a bit different. Sakaguchi had very little to do with the biggest hits and most loved games in the Final Fantasy series. He's credited as producer as he was the creator but it had really moved into other hands for the most part as the series went on. After he left and had creative freedom, we got the lukewarm, forgettable experience of Blue Dragon, tat like Away: Shuffle Dungeon, and his last two games are for iOS. Yes, Last Story and Lost Odyssey are decent games but neither of them really hooked me and made me want to see them through to the end. I think in both cases they were somewhat overrated by owners of those consoles since it was so rare to get a JRPG on the 360, and so rare to get ANY non-first party, non-casual game on the Wii.

With Kojima, though, his fingerprints are all over every inch of the MGS series so far, other than Portable Ops, Acid, the NES version of Metal Gear, Snake's Revenge and Ghost Babel. Actually, Snake's Revenge being so bad is what made him come back and make Metal Gear 2.

Look at the stuff that Inafune has made since leaving Capcom. I'd take anything Capcom have done in the last few years over Yaiba. Yuji Naka has gone on to make Let's Tap, Ivy the Kiwi? and Fishing Resort. Let's see if Rodea the Sky Soldier can actually redeem him. Anyway, in all these cases it seems like it was a two-way relationship and I'd say the things the companies have gone on to make since are better than the stuff the creatives who left have made. With Kojima, though, it really is a loss as the games were so infused with his personality and thoughts.

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