Hideo Kojima is a mysterious man. The Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator is one of just a handful of developers who have a certain aura about them -- making their games all the more exciting in the process. After finally launching his big-budget delivery simulator late last year, the internet seems to think that we'll get to see what comes next from Kojima Productions at some point this week.
That's thanks to a tease coming out of the studio itself and a certain industry insider. Take a look at the tweet below and you'd figure it's normal industry banter, but then you would be missing out on an important detail should the zoom-in function not be used. Take a closer look at the notepad in the image and you'll notice that the words "Next week" have been scribbled onto it. That corresponds to the next chunk of seven days.
Fans have dug even deeper, however. The pencil used has the word "Pyramid" on it, which some have taken as a reference to Silent Hill, but we think this could be taking things a little too far. You'd assume that was the end of it, however, infamous leaker Sabi, who posted nearly the entirety of E3 2019's announcements on the internet bar Nintendo, took to Twitter this morning with yet more information. She stated: "FF7R news, plus a big Kojima announcement this week. March is starting strong it seems."
So, what could it be? The PC version of Death Stranding is already a known quantity, which leads us to believe that all these teases and hints could be referring to an entirely new game. If all of this is indeed true, it looks like we'll find out what is it at some point this week. What do you hope to see from Kojima Productions next? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com]
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It isn't just this that has the Internet stoked.
Silent Hill Art Director Masahiro Ito once said he would never come back to make another game in the series unless Pyramid Head died or didn't have to be used.
Around the same time of Kojima's recent tweets he posted "RIP Pyramid Head", this alongside the fact we have known he has started a new project around Jan 2020, makes for interesting speculation!
Kojima has also posted today a picture of a calendar with the date March 3rd on it and he used the caption "March", which is rumoured to be when we find out the reveal event/state of play date for PS5.
This is the rumoured date due to a recent GiantBomb podcast where they slipped out that they had already received their invites for the event.
This may just be one big coincidence, but is intriguing to look into nonetheless!
imagine sony revealing they have bought the silent hill rights from konami.
but a more realistic guess would be a new horror IP with heavy PT influences. almost a silent hill game in all but name.
The start of the tweet says “sorry to be silent“; how could it be any more obvious that they are doing a Silent Hill or related game?
Of course it's silent hill, "silent" and "pyramid" give this away, and don't forget march 3. Which surely means there will be ps5 announcement on march 3 and one of the titles is the resurrected silent hill from kojipro 😁
@wiiware I think we will get a date on March 3rd and a state of play at the end of march.
Ito teasing this makes me think that this is either the greatest group troll of all time, or we are about to have a generation defining collab in Kojima, Sony and former members of Team Silent like Ito.
Silent Hills is coming back...only...not as a Silent Hill game.
Maybe to spite Konami he will call it Loud Valleys.
Just do a Horror game that starts with P and second word T and then see the cash come in like it's raining
I reckon if it’s going to be Silent Hill, it’ll be a spiritual successor like The Evil Within. I just don’t see Konami selling the rights.
@GamingFan4Lyf Apparently he and Konami are on better terms now, so maybe there is still hope for Silent Hills?
@nessisonett Selling the rights? No.
Lending the rights for some much needed revenue when they won't need to do as much as lift two fingers? YES.
@DonJorginho That would be an interesting turn of events.
So, yet again, Konami might have to rely on Kojima to output games that aren't PES or Pachinko machines?!
Will they give him his Fox Engine back, too?! Admittedly, I think I prefer the Decima Engine.
@GamingFan4Lyf I think it will be just the rights tbh, maybe the engine but KojiPro has just gotten used to Decima so would be insane to switch to Fox all over again when Decima is pretty good for immersive horror, Death Stranding proved that in many ways.
I see DS as a concept game for Kojima to see if the elements he wants to incorporate into Silent Hills will work, and now he knows they will he has chosen to pursue this project.
Either way I am hyped, only Kanye West and Kojima can get me this hyped over nothing.
I'll say this right now: if Silent Hills is seriously a thing on PS5, I'll buy one. No ifs, ands, or buts. It could be the only game on the system that I want to play, and I'd still buy it to play that game.
But I'm not getting my hopes up, and neither should you.
@nessisonett That'd be fine. P.T. felt nothing like Silent Hill and it was great. They don't need to use the name, and, frankly, the army of mediocre sequels have made me wary of any game that uses designs similar to what we've seen in the previous games.
@Ralizah My hopes right now:
@nessisonett thats a good possibility. Although konami has made games like Metal Gear Survive and Contra Rogue Corps so perhaps they finally realised theyd make more money selling the rights. However i dont know how well those silent hill pachinko machines do compared to normal one
@wiiware
Hmm, a pyramid has 3 sides. March is the third month of the year, the day is the third of the month.
A character in the game has a pyramid for a head.
I like conspiracies, can you tell?
And don't forget the all-seeing eye in the pyramid of the dollar bill... Illuminati... March 3rd, the day Florida became the 27th state... the only logical conclusion... Aliens
In my wildest dreams Sony have acquired Metal Gear Solid and MGS6 will be exclusive to PlayStation with Kojima at the helm.
I did say dream, right?
@DonJorginho Nice comment. Your post was more interesting than the article was, lol.
@Ken_Kaniff Thank you! When it comes to Kojima or Silent Hill I will scour the web to find every minute detail.
I think this is just related to the PC version release date which was revealed today.
@DonJorginho
I dont get it about GiantBomb. I cant hear March 3rd and they just sound as dumb as usual 😛
Kojima's calenders !! Also Godfsll developers leak says March 3
Been up since 5am lookin
What I want most in gaming is a new Silent Hill game developed by some ex team-silent folks and I’d happily take a Kojima directed one. But his split from Konami was acrimonious at best. Pretty sure this will never happen. But sell the IP to another Japanese developer. Imagine if FROMSOFT made a Silent Hill game?
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