TGS 2005: Kirby creator to make Metal Gear Solid 5?

By Staff, GameSpotPosted Sep 18, 2005 10:28 pm PT

Director Kojima jokingly gives a welcoming invitation to Masahiro Sakurai to develop series' fifth installment.

TOKYO--Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima announced during the Tokyo Game Show that he plans to retire from the series after the release of MGS4: Guns of the Patriots. And he might have already found his replacement.

During an additional Metal Gear Solid stage event at Konami's booth, which featured a guest appearance by Masahiro Sakurai, Kojima jokingly stated that one of the future plans for MGS is to have the famed creator produce the fifth installment in the series. While Kojima's statement of course was not completely serious, he acknowledged the former Hal Laboratory developer as one of the few great video game designers still left in Japan. Sakurai is a big fan of the Metal Gear series as well, so while he might not necessarily become MGS5's producer, this indicates some possibility that he might get involved with the espionage action series in one form or another.

On a more serious note, Kojima also disclosed during his stage show two core plans involving the future of the Metal Gear Solid franchise. For one, he plans to develop more games that are unique to handheld gaming machines, and secondly, he wants to expand MGS in the online gaming sector.

51 Comments

  • Rovelius

    Posted Oct 15, 2009 8:05 am PT

    GOD NO. Anyone is fine but NOT Sakurai, HE SCREWED UP SMASH THAT'S ONE SERIES ENOUGH.

  • Marc-AssKicker

    Posted Jul 28, 2009 3:40 pm PT

    go for MGS5!

  • gazzadragon

    Posted Jun 23, 2009 1:27 am PT

    bring on metal gear solid 5 minnnnnnnnnnnnnt !

  • raza3

    Posted May 30, 2009 10:01 am PT

    cool big boss is back!!!! and mgs is the best game

  • Sword-bearer

    Posted May 22, 2009 11:49 pm PT

    Cool! I'll be waiting for MGS5 (if it will come) and I'll be very sad, if it will be canceled.

  • Rex980

    Posted May 20, 2009 6:06 am PT

    Check this out, it is proof of a 5 game!
    http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/

  • cyclonebw

    Posted May 19, 2009 3:05 pm PT

    Good luck with Microsoft keeping up with this one!! SONY FOREVER!!!!

  • Gamew

    Posted May 9, 2009 7:52 am PT

    MGS5 WILL ROCK!

  • aidsta

    Posted Jan 23, 2009 10:55 am PT

    brilliant. i wonder who the next MGO expansion pack will hold. gotta have a raiden type of game play, although it would be very very hard to make it good.

  • prsk8954

    Posted Jan 16, 2009 6:00 am PT

    awsome, i love mgs and to end a good thing would really suck! kojima is a genius and he needs to keep making exclusives for PS3, His games always have an amazing production value so u always get ur moneys worth

  • Vuk0dlak

    Posted Jan 11, 2009 6:05 pm PT

    Go for Metal gear 1 and 2 Remake!! I want to see the epic battles of snake vs grey fox, and snake vs Big Boss in ps3 graphics, not that lame NES sh** were big boss looks like Sean Connery.. :S There's a million reasons why they should go for a remake. Play as newbie Solid Snake and know a little more of his past; fans want a remake; fans like the Ninja, so playing with grey fox until he gets captured would be great.. they even could remake the two games into one massive game.. GO GREY FOX!!!

  • footballshorty

    Posted Jan 11, 2009 12:45 pm PT

    Metal Gear Solid is without a doubt the greatest game EVER. Even though Solid Snake is gone and most of the other important chraracters they should continue to make more MGS series.! i would get all of them.! i hope KIRBY does a great just as HIDEO KOJIMA did.! plus i think all the Metal Gears and Metal Gear Solids that are not on the PS3 should be remade and show more of the story in all of them. Playing with The Ninja, Meryl, Big Boss all of them, it would be Really SWEET.!!

  • sacchi_uy

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 7:20 am PT

    It won't.

    There won't be any Solid in "Metal Gear Solid" anymore, that was announced. Nevertheless, "Metal Gear" might continue being in the title.

  • DevilAlex666

    Posted Jan 8, 2009 10:30 am PT

    it cant call metal gear solid anymore because solid snake is dead

  • marcelcr

    Posted Jan 6, 2009 9:48 am PT

    yeah

  • Vuk0dlak

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 12:25 am PT

    I agree with the metal gear 1 and 2 remake, that would be great.
    It would be cool if you could play a little part with grey fox before he was the ninja.. Continuing the series without snake or big boss just doesn't make sense..

  • Top-A-Gamer

    Posted Dec 6, 2008 1:51 pm PT

    mgs4 was the best game on ps3 and probabably gaming history. so if snake has to go for mgs5 to come out then snake has to go.

  • BIGDADDY53RR

    Posted Nov 28, 2008 11:03 pm PT

    I agree with Condor665. They should go back and cover zanzibar land cuz i feel they left me in the dark on what happened thur. It could be a great addition and help fill in what happened thur cuz they didn't really say much about it.

  • snake35444

    Posted Nov 28, 2008 6:41 am PT

    MGS5 bs!

  • alien100000

    Posted Oct 18, 2008 5:30 pm PT

    absolute crap it should end at 4. They said MGS4 was going to be that last one so leave it that way. The way I see it, if your not gonna play as Snake then forget it. If they do something stupid with it and ruin one of the best game series ever then they all deserve to rot in hell.

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