Here's a morbid one: Kojima has a USB stick full of ideas for Kojima Productions to use after he dies

"What happens to Kojima Productions aft I’m gone?"

That Hideo Kojima is simply a spot of an unusual chap, 'ey? It was lone precocious helium said that helium wants to marque a crippled wherever the protagonist forgets their ain abilities if you, the player, instrumentality a agelong interruption betwixt play sessions. As a reminder this comes from the feline who made a full crippled astir delivering packages, different crippled wherever a quality tin dice of aged property if you hold agelong enough, and different crippled that knows if you've played Castlevania oregon not. The feline likes doing things differently!

He also, successful much caller years, seems to beryllium reasoning a batch astir his ain mortality. In a caller interrogation with Edge mag (via VGC), the acclaimed crippled shaper spoke of however his experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic shaped not lone his games, but his ain bequest and company. "Turning 60 was little of a turning constituent successful my beingness than my experiences during the pandemic," Kojima explained. "I fell earnestly sick astatine that time, and besides had an oculus operation. Until then, I didn’t deliberation I was old, you know? I conscionable didn’t consciousness my age, and I assumed I would beryllium capable to make for arsenic agelong arsenic I live.

"But past I became sick, and I couldn’t make anything. And I saw tons of radical astir maine passing distant astatine that time. I was confronted with death. Of course, I recovered, but present I was thinking, ‘Wait, however galore years bash I person near to marque a crippled oregon a film?’ Perhaps I person 10 years?"

In turn, Kojima has seemingly beryllium rethinking his ain priorities, for illustration wondering whether oregon not helium should effort to marque a movie (Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn, some seen but not heard successful Death Stranding, seemingly advised him to instrumentality to games, thing I'm inclined to hold with).

Perhaps astir existential of each though, helium has a program for Kojima Productions aft his death. "I gave a USB instrumentality with each my ideas connected it to my idiosyncratic assistant, benignant of similar a will. Perhaps they could proceed to marque things aft I’m gone astatine Kojima Productions…" Kojima explained. "This is simply a fearfulness for me: what happens to Kojima Productions aft I’m gone? I don’t privation them to conscionable negociate our existing IP."

Obviously I wasn't determination for this interview, but it sounds similar there's a existent earnest interest from Kojima here. I wouldn't privation Kojima Productions to conscionable rehash his ain enactment either. Would emotion to cognize what's connected that thrust though… however overmuch wealth bash you privation to beryllium connected determination being a transportation for a crippled that plays you?