Kojima dukkede frem på skærmen under den seneste State of Play for at afsløre Physint, et nyt "tactical espionage"-spil i stil med Metal Gear. Så hvorfor vender han tilbage til den genre han definerede? Jo, det lader til at være fans' ihærdighed der har resulteret i at projektet er blevet skabt.
For nylig udgav han en video på YouTube, hvor han snakker om Physint, og her siger han både at fans kontinuerligt har spurgt om mere Metal Gear, og at han en eller anden dag skal dø.
"In the last eight years, every day on social media, from users all around the world, people have been asking me to create another Metal Gear and stuff like that. I turned 60 last year. I'll turn 70 in ten years. I hope to never retire. Having said that, if the users desire it [a new Metal Gear-style game] so much, I thought I should change my priorities a bit. I fell ill in 2020. It was also during the pandemic, so I was sick and isolated during all of it. I even had surgery. And I thought 'I can't anymore.' I was at my lowest and felt like I couldn't go back to making games. I wrote a will, too. And in that moment, I realized that people die."
Det er alligevel sjældent at høre Kojima tale om sig selv på den her måde, så måske er det meget godt at han lige får lavet et Metal Gear-agtigt spil, særligt nu hvor Konami ikke synes at være synderligt interesserede udover at genskabe gamle spil.
