Konami forklarer hvorfor Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater ikke kaldes "A Hideo Kojima Game"

Hideo Kojimas navn vil naturligvis flyve over skærmen mange gange under introsekvensen på det kommende Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater, eftersom han var det originale spils instruktør, manuskriptforfatter og meget mere.

Men der kommer altså ikke til at stå "A Hideo Kojima Game", og det forklarer seriens faste producer Noriaki Okamura i en ny video. Her siger at det skyldes følgende:

"You might notice that a lot of Metal Gear titles start with the line, 'A Hideo Kojima Game', but in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, you'll see it says 'Based on Metal Gear Solid 3' instead. I just want to take a moment to make sure everyone understands why that is. It's always been the case that games Mr. Kojima didn't personally direct don't have 'A Hideo Kojima Game'. So, for instance, I directed a few Metal Gear titles, like Portable Ops or the Digital Graphic Novel, so neither of those open with that line. The same with Ghost Babel, which was handled by another producer. So, for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, we decided that it just made sense to follow that precedent."

Det skal dog siges at studiet, og Okamura, har tænkt rigtig, rigtig meget over hvordan de med respekt håndterer kreditering af det originale team:

"The development team had a lot of internal discussion about how exactly we should do the credits, but we settled on one thing right away... we weren't changing the names, so it was always going to be the original staff, not the current team. From there, we had to say, okay, so how do we do it? We thought about just leaving in the original credits from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but we also had to try and consider how members of the original staff might view it. For instance, if we had changed the credits, would they be hurt they weren't included? And on the other hand, some would probably think, 'why are they crediting me when I didn't work on it?' So we decided that the way to handle it would be to credit people as 'Original Programmer', 'Original so-and-so'. Listing their titles like that seemed best."