Kojima & Konami To See Metal Gear Solid V Through, At Least

<p>In the past 48 hours&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s been speculated just how long<em> Metal Gear<&sol;em> creator Hideo Kojima is sticking it out with publisher Konami&period; Today&comma; the company&&num;8217&semi;s confirmed that it&&num;8217&semi;ll still be a while longer&comma; albeit not nearly as certain <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;no-konamis-still-cool-with-hideo-kojima-for-now&sol;">as it once appeared<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a press release&comma; Konami confirmed that Kojima would be onboard with them to continue development of the Metal Gear series&&num;8217&semi; latest entry of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;quiet-drops-metal-gear-solid-v&sol;"><em>Metal Gear Solid V&colon; The Phantom Pain<&sol;em><&sol;a>&comma; due out this <strong>Sep&period; 1st<&sol;strong>&period; They are&comma; however&comma; seemingly intent on continuing the series with or without Kojima present&comma; which is looking a bit more possible given the language of the address you can read below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>To Customers&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thank you for your continued patronage of KONAMI products and services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest title in the METAL GEAR series&comma;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;METAL GEAR SOLID V&colon; THE PHANTOM PAIN” &lpar;below&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;MGSV&colon; TPP”&rpar;&comma; will be released as planned starting on Tuesday&comma; September 1st&comma; 2015 in North America&comma; Latin America&comma; and Europe&comma; followed by Japan and Asia on Wednesday&comma; September 2nd&period; Hideo Kojima will remain involved throughout&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hideo Kojima stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I want to reassure fans that I am 100&percnt; involved and will continue working on METAL GEAR SOLID V&colon; THE PHANTOM PAIN&semi; I’m determined to make it the greatest game I’ve directed to date&period; Don’t miss it&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; KONAMI will continue to develop and distribute top-quality content in the METAL GEAR series following &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;MGSV&colon; TPP&period;” We greatly anticipate and deeply appreciate your ongoing support for METAL GEAR&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the next step in the series&comma; KONAMI has already resolved to develop new &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;METAL GEAR”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We will be conducting interviews for main staff to lead the development&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Kojima&&num;8217&semi;s previously mused that<em> MGS V<&sol;em> will be his last Metal Gear Solid game&comma; as he has many&comma; many times in the past&period; The designer is&comma; however&comma; currently involved with the development of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tgs-scare-easy-maybe-stay-away-silent-hills&sol;"><em>Silent Hills<&sol;em><&sol;a> alongside renowned horror director Guillermo Del Toro under the Konami banner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If Kojima should leave Konami sometime after <em>MGS V<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s fast-approaching release&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s unclear just who would pick up the exploits of the survival-horror title&comma; much less what would become of its vision&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ll keep you posted with more on the continuing saga as we learn it&period; In the meantime&comma; stay tuned to all all things gaming&comma; movie&comma; TV&comma; comics&comma; and animé here at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com">BagoGames<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;konami&period;com&sol;news&sol;mgsvnotice&sol;">Konami<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;