Kojima’s subsequent enterprise will probably be a recreation, anime, film, “or one factor completely diversified”

Hideo Kojima has signed with experience firm WME to “site visitors management all that [he does]” and “deal with exchanges with all of the actors” he needs to work with, hinting that his subsequent enterprise can also now not even be a on-line recreation.

In an interview with Diversity, Kojima admitted that whereas up till this level, he had “personally” been in a state to variety the hyperlinks and connections he vital, it had “turn out to be troublesome to handle on [his] personal”. As a consequence, he is signed with WME’s “very highly effective” workforce to “work with gifted folks from around the globe and create one thing new”.

“I created Kojima Productions beneath the scope of ‘digital leisure’, however I do not suppose it essentially must be a online game,” Kojima talked about. “We can also abolish a unique IP from a recreation, or an anime, or a film, or one factor completely diversified. Anything is probably.

“I want to work with gifted folks from around the globe and create one thing new, with ‘digital’ being the key phrase. It could possibly be a film, a recreation, or one thing else completely. I am unable to die till then! I do not suppose I am making an attempt to do something too out of the bizarre!”

Kojima additionally confused that he considers his studio, Kojima Productions, is an “indie”.

“We’re indies! Actually! We by no means know after we’ll shut. We’re now not backed by any particular person. We cease all the problems on our non-public, from rising concepts to manufacturing and even promotion and advertising and advertising. I embody there are relatively just some studios deal with us.

“We will not do mass manufacturing, so we can’t go public. I am getting fairly outdated, and it isn’t all the time straightforward. However I am creating issues as a result of I need to. I am working a enterprise in order that I can preserve creating. It is not as a result of I need to do enterprise. I did not essentially need to make my very own studio. I went unbiased so I could make what I need to make.”

Hideo Kojima dropped a bombshell on the pinnacle of January