Hideo Kojima har upprepade gånger sagt att han är klar med Metal Gear Solid-serien, bara för att några månader senare meddela att han arbetar vidare på ett nytt spel. Nu har Kojima under en intervju med Game informer förklarat att han gärna skulle lämna sitt uppdrag som producent till Metal Gear Solid-serien och ägna sig åt att skapa andra spel:
"Ideally I would like to step out from the Metal Gear franchise as a producer and dedicate myself to other games. So far that has proven to be a bit difficult. Alien is a very successful example [of a new director coming in]. Unfortunately in our case it's more like Terminator, that once Cameron steps out of it there was kind of a mess."
"I've been working in the Metal Gear franchise for over 25 years. This world has allowed me to tell a lot of the things that I wanted to say. That said, it has a very specific worldview and a very specific set of game elements. I'll probably be saying this until I die, but there are still more things I want to tell, more things I want to communicate, and more things I want to experiment with."