Hideo Kojima Was Misunderstood About PS3 Hardware

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Some time back I had heard that Hideo Kojima had commented that the hardware on the PlayStation 3 was limiting what he could do with games or specifically Metal Gear Solid 4.

I am Japanese, so I try to be modest. I’m an especially modest person. I dont wish to brag about it to say “I am the amazing Metal Gear guy” or to say “This is the best one”, just like how Americans brag stuff like this… That’s why i interview in Japanese, and Mr. Sai (translator) translates my side of the inteviews very well in English. Westerners do not have a tradition of modesty. And so, the statements are translated correctly, but the original meaning is totally different. And those statements are on a totally different website and the meaning totally changes. Regarding my recent comment about my disappointment with MGS4, the comments derived from the article “MGS4, Inside The Biggest PS3 Game” to the post “Hideo Disappointed with MGS4.” It’s become totally different. This was in English, and here’s where it gets strange. Japanese readers then translated that in Japanese and put it on their websites, writing things like “Oh, the PS3 is dead.” Then that spread through the internet and now people are writing things like “Hideo Kojima Is Making MGS4 on the PS3.” This is no good… It’s funny how others think “Did Hideo really say that?” then ask me, and my answer is obviously “No” but then… I guess I am responsible for all of the articles…

Now I’m going to say what I really wanted to say, and this is what I told those 15 reporters:

Let’s say this developer is making hardware, in this case a game, and that hardware is at the level of a car. And when looking at the specs, the developer claims the car is able to fly. Now there is no stopping when you say, “This is a car that can fly.” When you claim that it can fly, the speculation grows from “oh so it can FLY?!!!” And the developer would set his goals higher. The specualtion is that if the car flies, then it should reach a MACH speed…but it doesnt stop there…it’d go beyond the specualtion of then “it should go into space!” with all the excitement around, and the developer would go deeply into making the car going into space… however, he’ll come up to the public and say the car reaches the MACH speed, but it fails to go into the space. But he shouldn’t give up, because for a car to even reach a mach speed and go into air is revolutionary. I wished to convey my thoughts like that, but I guess it didn’t work very well.

Kotaku

Wow. I’m still totally confused. You can read the rest though and figure it out for yourself.

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