Anecdote 2023-06
“And Sony, as far as I know, basically said, "We're going to bet on you, Hideo Kojima, as a creator." We don't even need to know what the game is. We're just in.”
— Geoff Keighley
What it documents
Geoff Keighley said in the documentary that, as far as he knows, Sony agreed to back Kojima's first independent project, betting on him as a creator and telling him they did not even need to know what the game was.
Source
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds (documentary by Glen Milner; PlayStation Productions / Kojima Productions); official English SDH subtitles, 2023-06 (00:05:02,916–00:05:12,666). View source ↗
“[Keighley in English] And Sony, as far as I know, basically said, "We're going to bet on you, Hideo Kojima, as a creator." We don't even need to know what the game is. We're just in.”