Kojima-San Blames Western Culture & Misquotes News

Translations taken from the latest Hideo-blog suggest that the man behind Metal Gear Solid 4 wasn't disappointed by the PS3 at all, and blamed such comments on poor translation from the Western media.

Although we thank "bobamuknunbabo" for his arduous translation on the official US PlayStation forums, it's worth bearing in mind that this is once again just a translation and we don't want to upset Mr. Kojima with things that could be misquoted, so bear that in mind before reading on.

Stating that it's not the Japanese way to boast about one's own achievements, Kojima-san claims, "I hate to say this myself, but I am a Japanese man, so I try to be modest, or even more. I don't wish to brag about it to say 'Oh I am the MGS4 guy' or to say 'This is the best one', just like how Americans brag stuff like this I do enjoy myself, but in my mind I still think insufficient of myself."

Clearing up the situation regarding his apparent disappointment with the PS3, Kojima-san uses a bewildering analogy of cars that can fly and have the ambition to enter space but have to contend with soaring amongst the clouds.

"Let's say this developer is making a new kind of a car. He claims that this can fly. Now there is no stop when you say 'There is a car that can fly.' When you claim that it can fly, the speculation grows from 'Oh so it can fly?' and the developer would set his goals higher. The speculation is that if the car flies, then it should reach a MACH speed...but it doesn't stop there...it'd go beyond the speculation of then 'it should go into space!' with all the excitement around, the developer would go deeply into making the car going into space...however, he'll come up to the public and say the car reaches the MACH speed, but it fails to go into the space. But he shouldn't give up, because for a car to even reach a mach speed and go into air is revolutionary."

"I wished to transfer my thoughts like such, but I guess it didn't work very well", claimed the man who allegedly initially claimed the PS3 was one step as opposed to the ten he hoped for.

Once again we'd like to point out that Kojima's latest comments have not undergone professional translation.