kyliethicc
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I'm just saying its weird Kojima took that deal,I doubt Sony was the only party interested back then.
Also, I'll add
- PlayStation & Kojima are Japanese (unlike Xbox, EA, Ubisoft, Activision, etc)
- his type of games don't fit at Nintendo
- other Japanese publishers (Capcom, Square, Sega, Bandai Namco, etc) can't offer same budget & tech as Sony
- Andrew House, who was PlayStation CEO, speaks fluent Japanese
- Mark Cerny, producer on DS, also speaks fluent Japanese and took him around the globe to tour studios & tech
- Guerrilla gave him their entire engine code, unprompted, at GDC
- Sony have a huge user base to sell games to
- most of Kojima's games were PS exclusives previously
- they gave him a huge budget for actors, tech, marketing
- they gave him creative freedom & control
- they gave him world class tech & support
- they gave him special treatment (for his ego) like the E3 entrance, the PC port, etc
- he mentioned that Sony didn't require him to do any pictches/demos before the deal
- Andrew House was clearly very intent on signing Kojima (great terms?)
- Kojima doesn't give a fuck about owning IP (he never has owned any of his games' IP)
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