According to mad scientist Hideo Kojima, his studio is not one big, happy family where everybody gets along. In fact, there's a little bit of competition brewing between the teams working on Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Metal Gear Solid: Rising, with the former showing a little bit of jealousy when it comes to the latter.
"If you could imagine the PSP team looking at the Rising team," explains Kojima, "they have all the money and specs. It's interesting for me to see the team members act in this way. This was never before because it was always just one small team. Now we are much bigger."
He adds that the two teams are "not really good friends."
Kojima's right, it's certainly interesting to see that a studio pulling in the same direction would have this kind of internal envy, but that's the cost of expansion. With more people comes more chance for conflict. Hopefully the sense of competition will see both teams striving to outshine the other and, in turn, produce two excellent Metal Gear Solid games for us to enjoy.
So long as we get to benefit from bitter corporate misery, then everything's okay.
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8:00 AM on 09.03.2009
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So when does this get turned into a reality show?
Try telling that to the loser of a deathmatch :p
But seriously the creator of the iconic franchise and the current development team not being on the same page probably isn't a good thing, hopefully it won't affect the game.
Thing is it usually does and not in the most positive way either.
Or maybe they are happy that they don't have to work with Kojima directly like that?
Nothing official but I highly doubt it'll be canonical.
i wouldn't say that the Peace Walker Team are the underdogs. They have Kojima working directly with them. He's not even directing Rising.
Also, I still don't see how they are going to make the story understandable for 360 owners with MGS:R. Unless they port MGS4 or MGS2:S becomes bc, I just don't see why 360 owners would care about Raiden in this new Metal Gear.
Im still not sold on Peace Walker, I liked the story and everything in Portable Ops but someone of the gameplay decisions I did not like. For example, you can pretty much not play as snake for almost the whole game, and it doesnt even become a sneaking mission anymore, its just putting on a discuses and then running to a point. Also the controls and the camera made the game unplayable. I need that second analog stick, its important.
I was thinking the exact same thing. "Survivor: Kojima Productions"
how the hell could someone be an 18+
gamer without having owned a PS2 or
GameCube or PSP??