Efter noget tid vidste vi allesammen godt at Abandoned ikke var noget hemmeligt Kojima-projekt, men at Blue Box bevidst manipulerede for at skabe tvetydig markedsføring. Alligevel har Kojima selv nu endelig kommenteret på hele sagen.
Han medvirkede for nylig i Geoff Keighleys podcast, Brain Structure, og slog fast at han aldrig vil gøre noget lig han gjorde med Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain igen:
"Well, this one, I really didn't understand at first. Users just kept sending me pictures of this Hassan. They still send me collages and deep fake images - like 20 a day. It's really quite a nuisance. This has been going on for almost two years now. And Geoff, you remember when we did that Moby Dick thing? You were in on the whole thing, and that was pretty fun. But people should know that I wouldn't do the same thing twice."
Der lader fortsat til at være dem der er overbevist om at de to entiteter er forbundet. Hvad tror du?