Social game elements often receive some resistance from core gamers. However, Hideo Kojima sees more synthesis between social and core games as time goes on.
“I don’t think social and core games are separate, both will evolve together, and at some point I feel the social side of things will converge with the core games,” said Kojima. “I think in the future maybe Metal Gear will change in certain ways to integrate social aspects. If you look at other games on the market now you can see it’s already happening, so Metal Gear may at some point get involved.”
He’s thinking of ways to integrate social aspects into Metal Gear, though he declined to elaborate. “It’s using social to integrate different core groups, so you have the core audience but then, via social methods, hardcore gamers can interact with less hardcore players,” he said.
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