Konami has revealed that one of many causes it greenlit the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is as a result of youthful players aren’t accustomed to the sequence anymore.
Speaking to Play and shared by GamesRadar, sequence producer Noriaki Okamura admitted Konami is trying to seize a brand new viewers with the remake, which arrives 20 years after the unique Metal Gear Solid 3 and 9 years after the final mainline entry.
“One of the issues that basically sparked us to do the remake typically is as a result of we realized that a variety of the newer, youthful era of players aren’t accustomed to the Metal Gear sequence anymore,” he mentioned.
“It was mainly our mission, our obligation, to type of proceed ensuring that the sequence lives on for future generations. After all, we depart behind rather more than simply DNA, as Solid Snake would say — however once more, who’s Solid Snake?”
In truth, this is among the causes Konami selected the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater title for the remake, versus merely calling it Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Timeline clever, Snake Eater is the primary sport within the sequence, so going with the Greek letter ‘delta’ helped get this new starting throughout.
Thr franchise started in 1987 with Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear, and final noticed a mainline entry with Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, launched in 2015. Spin-off Metal Gear Survive launched in 2018, with solely collections of older video games popping out within the subsequent years.
So, it’s straightforward to grasp the place Konami is coming from right here. Metal Gear is well-known by followers of a sure age and has monumental nostalgia potential, however with no model new mainline entry in almost a decade, curiosity amongst youthful players most likely isn’t the place Konami desires it to be.
The query now could be, after Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater comes out, the place will Konami take the sequence subsequent? We know MGS: Master Collection Vol. 2 is within the works, however might Konami be set to remake Kojima’s seminal Metal Gear Solid subsequent? After that, might followers lastly get a model new Metal Gear Solid sport? If so, would Konami proceed the story as set out by Kojima, or begin recent?
As for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami is but to announce a launch date, nevertheless it’s due out on
PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC in some unspecified time in the future in 2025.
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