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Kojima Productions: 'starting from zero' in 2009

chautemoc | January 05, 2009 | Interview | Playstation 3 Company 
Metal Gear designer and producer Hideo Kojima has told Japanese magazine Famitsu his company -- Kojima Productions -- will be starting from the ground up in 2009 to compete with the rest of the world.
"We're currently reviewing everything - from the team structure to tools and our staff - in order to make Kojima Productions a team that can challenge foreign creators and software houses," he told Famitsu as part of their 2009 preview. "So, because of that, 2009 is going to be a very important year for us.

"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," he said.


"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. So 2009 will be a year of change, a year where we start from zero again."
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    Bale Fire | January 05, 2009
    From what I've heard how Western developers organise themselves is one of their prime advantages over the Japanese, so this definitely could help them make a game much faster, if nothing else.
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    Killosity | January 05, 2009
    You cannot help but be a little excited for this. I'm looking forward to see what games are a result of this organisation.
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    Red 9 | January 06, 2009
    Oddly enough, their past strategies have created the best game saga ever made. Why change it?
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      BlackLabel | January 06, 2009
      It was only the best thanks to the writers, gameplay and graphics wise it has been good but now the west is really starting to show them how to make good games that look good and don't take 6 years to make.
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      GrEyCrEsT | February 18, 2009
      quote Red 9
      Oddly enough, their past strategies have created the best game saga ever made. Why change it?


      • everything changes you know
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    HawkMan | January 06, 2009
    please don't develop an FPS!
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    Shiny Mew | January 06, 2009
    I hope they don't make another driving game, they suck at making them.
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      Red 9 | January 07, 2009
      I had no idea they had ever tried such a genre. Which was that?
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      GrEyCrEsT | February 18, 2009
      quote Shiny Mew
      I hope they don't make another driving game, they suck at making them.


      • instead of making it stop they should make improvements

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