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Hideo Kojima is famous for not only his Metal Gear Solid series, but also for saying after nearly each installment that he won't be making another. Of course, he always ends up coming back to the hit franchise.
Again, after MGS4, he said he would be moving on to new projects, but he tells 1Up, "I have three concepts for MGS5 already.
"What would be ideal for me with MGS5, though, is that we don't [use] those [concepts]. If the team picks one of those concepts, I have to get involved again, which I don't want to do."
Kojima said in 2007 that MGS4 would be the last time he was directly involved with the development of an MGS game, opting to step back and act in a more hands-off role.
He's confident that Kojima Productions staff will come up with impressive MGS5 concepts.
"There are already so many good ideas from the staff, so if we select one of those, that would be really good. At that point I could really rely on them and take the step back to be the producer, which is the ideal situation, I think," Kojima stated.
But at the same time, Kojima expressed how one of his "mistakes" in the development of MGS4 was sharing too much responsibility to team members.
"I thought that leaving things up to the team members and giving them more responsibility was the only way for them to grow, sometimes that sort of sacrifice can be too much, and in this case it was.
"Nothing good came of giving them more responsibility. I'm not saying the staff were slackers--definitely not -- they were working really hard. But it was about the decisions they made."
