PierceLee
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I don't think the issue is Konami wanting to shift to mobile games. Looking at it from a company perspective, Kojima is just not a good game director/producer (aka project manager). He may be a creative person but he sucks big time as project manager. His projects (like MGS5) took years. Konami pumped tons of money into it for years, zero return. Companies work on an annual budget cycle, every year it's deficit going into the project, hitting the company's bottomline. So much so that in the interim they had to grab some parts that were already made, wrap it up as a full game (Ground Zero, which is nothing more than a demo or prequel) and sell that to get back some cash first.konami more interested in mobile games as they require less money to make and still able to make money compared to big titles. this is why they kicked kojima out.
And meanwhile, Kojima likes to be a glory hog, grabbing media attention all the time, putting the focus on himself rather than the company. Think about it, what is the most profitable product from Konami? Probably PES. They sell it every year, smaller incremental investment annually, steady revenue stream, dependable profit source. Pop quiz, who's the producer/director of the PES games? Anyone knows? Probably not (for that matter, probably more people know the name Kojima than the name of Konami's CEO). That's the point, whoever makes the most profitable games for the company doesn't hog the spotlight. He just dutifully, silently makes money for the company year after year. Compare that to Kojima, whose project goes totally out of hand, takes longer and longer (just because Kojima wants open world in MGS5), sinking more and more company money into the bottomless pit. And some projects are just fiasco (like the fruit ninja game), which Kojima has to make so he at least had some deliverables for the company.
If you are Konami, how much do you like Kojima? You'd probably give him a deadline to wrap up MGS5 whichever way, and kick him out.
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