It really doesn't. All of his games made money
That 'salary man' who had to 'wrangle' Kojima was most likely the hardware itself. Kojima wanted to do a lot of things with MGS1 that he couldn't because of PS1 hardware limitations.
This man is the poet they should have sent.
Worse, they did mail the checks. You should see what the scores were BEFORE that.
damn, couldn't even afford a 7? it really is over...
He has his problems but they kept worse people. That is the issue.
No, and I can't recall where but Kojima bitched for hours in a interview before about a salary man denying him his tendies unless he stopped being retarded on company time.
God, I miss the Romijn days of Mystique. I could have given less of a fuck that she was blue.
There’s the poster. But that doesn’t say much.
Very true, but Kojima Productions was a publishing deal versus wholly owned failchildren like Bungie and Guerrilla. Cutting him loose doesn't require eating a huge write-down on their balance sheet.
There's nothing that extraordinary about Kojima's games barring MGSV in (which I do give credit for since it was amasing how that game could run on a fucking PS360 era console at all) terms of their optimization or hardware usage. He made bog standard PSX and PS2 games, bad PS3/PS4 games and his last two games are literally walking sims (albeit well-optimized ones) and his writing has gotten worse along with it.