We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one

"In each these 26 years, nary 1 ever told maine specified a speech had taken place"

For arsenic video gamey a bid arsenic The Matrix is, it is simply a interaction astonishing determination person lone been a fistful of existent games. Obviously the 1 that makes astir consciousness is The Matrix Online, what different genre but an MMO could The Matrix could be? Well, there's besides Enter The Matrix, which is fundamentally Max Payne, but you inactive person to wonderment what other could person been. Especially due to the fact that The Wachowskis virtually pitched the thought of Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima making a Matrix crippled straight to Konami.

Christopher Bergstresser, the erstwhile vice president of licensing astatine Konami Digital Entertainment, precocious spoke with Time Extension astir this evident pitch, explaining that "The Wachowskis were large fans of Kojima." He explained, "So Kazumi Kitaue, Kojima, Aki Saito (who inactive works with Kojima), and I were astatine the Konami HQ, and we got a telephone from the Wachowskis, who wanted to travel successful and conscionable with Kojima. So they did!"

The brace of directors attended the gathering with their ocular effects lead, asking if Konami and Kojima would marque a Matrix game, to which Kitaue (who went connected to go CEO of Konami) seemingly plainly said "'No.' We did inactive get to bask the Matrix Japanese premiere and afterparty, though." Except, apparently, according to Kojima himself, helium wasn't adjacent alert of specified a pitch.

After connection of Time Extension's study went around, Kojima took to his idiosyncratic English Twitter relationship to accidental that helium was "surprised to spot connected societal media that the Wachowski sisters had 'offered maine a Matrix crippled project!' backmost successful 1999. In each these 26 years, nary 1 ever told maine specified a speech had taken place."

The Death Stranding manager went connected to explicate that helium does callback having met the Wachowskis 3 times, and that they had attended Konami's headquarters, but Kojima lone showed up aft the gathering with Kitaue had taken place. He besides remembers attending the Japanese premiere and party, but "even then, determination was nary notation of an offer."

It's this spot that volition permission you with thoughts of what could person been: "At that time, I was already highly engaged with MGS2 and astir apt couldn’t person accepted the connection close away. But if idiosyncratic had told me, possibly determination could’ve been a mode to marque it work." Alas, present we'll ne'er know! Which makes maine a interaction sad, due to the fact that I would emotion to unrecorded successful a satellite wherever his hypothetical Matrix crippled reads your browser past to justice you oregon something, you know, 1 of those classical oddball Kojima features.