MGS4 Gets XXXX System

source: IGN

Konami game development master Hideo Kojima has been blogging again, and the results are sure to give headaches to the company’s PR department. The most recent blog entry from the Metal Gear Solid producer includes a few interesting revelations on the future of the Metal Gear series and blogging itself.

First up, a new Kojima Productions title for the PSP. Kojima previously hinted that his team had started work on a brand new PSP project. In this latest blog entry, he’s less shy about the game’s existence. On Tuesday afternoon, the blog entry reveals, six higher ranking members of Kojima Productions met for a production meeting to discuss the title, which Kojima reveals will offer a “completely new gameplay system.” This, apparently, is causing some worries, as he’s unsure if people will take to the idea or not. Kojima believes that there’s only one thing to do: make a test version and have people try it out. The team is currently looking into how to do this.

And who exactly was in attendance at this high level meeting? Shinta Nojiri, director of Metal Gear Acid 2, was there, and he will serve as director and producer for the new title. Also in attendance were Noriaki Okamura, Shuyo Murata as well as a Mr. Yamada and a Mr. Yamamoto. Kojima’s role on the title hasn’t been revealed.

Kojima also makes reference to Metal Gear Solid 4 in his latest entry. He states that’s a new system, which he refers to under the code name of “XXXX,” has been implemented in the game’s development environment. Apparently, upon seeing this new system, the Kojima Production staffers exclaimed “Aah, now this is next generation!”. This new system, if implemented correctly, will give the game a different flavor from Metal Gear Solid, and will “likely be an industry first,” Kojima adds.

Above is, we think, an image of the MGS4 development environment. With this image and someone good with Japanese/Chinese characters (it’s presumed that each of the X’s in the game system’s name stands for a kanji character or a Japanese alphabetic character) you may be able to figure out the name of this new system and earn world fame.

Closing off this latest blog entry, Kojima reveals that he went to the gym for the first time in quite some time, admitting that he felt a little fat on his last trip to Korea. Here, he has somewhat of an epiphany. When you write a Blog from a Japanese bath, a “furo,” is it called “Frog” rather than Blog?

That’s a little funnier in Japanese than in English.

source: IGN

Konami game development master Hideo Kojima has been blogging again, and the results are sure to give headaches to the company’s PR department. The most recent blog entry from the Metal Gear Solid producer includes a few interesting revelations on the future of the Metal Gear series and blogging itself.

First up, a new Kojima Productions title for the PSP. Kojima previously hinted that his team had started work on a brand new PSP project. In this latest blog entry, he’s less shy about the game’s existence. On Tuesday afternoon, the blog entry reveals, six higher ranking members of Kojima Productions met for a production meeting to discuss the title, which Kojima reveals will offer a “completely new gameplay system.” This, apparently, is causing some worries, as he’s unsure if people will take to the idea or not. Kojima believes that there’s only one thing to do: make a test version and have people try it out. The team is currently looking into how to do this.

And who exactly was in attendance at this high level meeting? Shinta Nojiri, director of Metal Gear Acid 2, was there, and he will serve as director and producer for the new title. Also in attendance were Noriaki Okamura, Shuyo Murata as well as a Mr. Yamada and a Mr. Yamamoto. Kojima’s role on the title hasn’t been revealed.

Kojima also makes reference to Metal Gear Solid 4 in his latest entry. He states that’s a new system, which he refers to under the code name of “XXXX,” has been implemented in the game’s development environment. Apparently, upon seeing this new system, the Kojima Production staffers exclaimed “Aah, now this is next generation!”. This new system, if implemented correctly, will give the game a different flavor from Metal Gear Solid, and will “likely be an industry first,” Kojima adds.

Above is, we think, an image of the MGS4 development environment. With this image and someone good with Japanese/Chinese characters (it’s presumed that each of the X’s in the game system’s name stands for a kanji character or a Japanese alphabetic character) you may be able to figure out the name of this new system and earn world fame.

Closing off this latest blog entry, Kojima reveals that he went to the gym for the first time in quite some time, admitting that he felt a little fat on his last trip to Korea. Here, he has somewhat of an epiphany. When you write a Blog from a Japanese bath, a “furo,” is it called “Frog” rather than Blog?

That’s a little funnier in Japanese than in English.