Hideo Kojima says Physint's happening because you lot just wouldn't stop asking for 'a new Metal Gear' and, after a brush with death, he's decided that's not a bad idea

Hideo Kojima has relaunched the Hideo Kojima YouTube show 'HideoTube', a Hideo Kojima production starring Hideo Kojima. Okay I'll stop with the obvious jokes, but this is a new episode («The HideoTube 2024 special», no less) in a series that stopped shortly after the creator's acrimonious departure from Konami, and the first new entry in seven years. It's an hourlong and wide-ranging chat between Kojima, host Risa Unai, and various talking heads involved with Kojima Productions' work. 

I'm the biggest Kojima fan in the world, but I will admit the man is not shy about blowing his own horn. A whole bunch of the running time is Kojima and company re-watching the recent trailers for Death Stranding 2, OD and the Physint announcement and then talking about how good they are. Which is a bit like getting pleasure from the smell of your own farts, but I watched through for the good stuff so you don't have to. 

While there's some discussion of Death Stranding 2 and OD (which we'll come to) the bit that really jumps out is near the end, where Kojima talks about Physint and whether this is essentially Kojima Productions making a new Metal Gear. Buckle up, because it sounds like someone's decided he really is Big Boss.

"[Physint] will be both a game and a movie at the same time," begins Kojima. «Of course it will be a game. However, if your mother walks in on you playing this game, she'll think you're watching a movie. I'm not sure how far we can take it yet.»

It's the motivation behind making it where Kojima starts to get a little more philosophical.

«Why did I make this game,» Kojima asks himself? «Well first off, because I became independent, I wanted to do something new with my own IP. So to challenge myself I first made Death Stranding. Then to create a franchise I made Death Stranding 2. And I wanted to do something even newer, so I started working on OD.

»And since then there have been a lot of new ideas. But in the last eight years, every day on social media, from users