Hideo Kojima stays true to his brand, says he wants to make a game you can play in space

It seems like it’s impossible for Hideo Kojima to be anything other than himself, as he recently expressed his desire to make a game that you can play in space.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. Yes, you can technically play any game in space (if they can run all that complicated tech in there, surely they can make a Nintendo Switch work too). But one, it seems that Kojima seems to be saying that he wants to play a game that you can only play in space. And two, his ambitions are bigger than that: he wants to go into space himself.

Kojima recently appeared at the premiere of Connecting Worlds, the documentary that is literally about himself, where his best friend in the world and Summer Game Fest producer Geoff Keighley asked him what he wants to do in the future. “I want to go to outer space,” Kojima replied, as shared by Axios’ Stephen Totilo on Twitter. “I want to go to outer space and make a game that you can play in space… So please someone send me to space.” You can’t blame Kojima for how ambitious Kojima is to say the least.

It is quite well known that Kojima likes weird game mechanics. Whether it’s something like Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and breaking the fourth wall, or food spoiler in Metal Gear Solid 3 if you let enough real world time go by. And then there are the Boktai games, which literally have light sensors that affect the game itself. He does weird things! So I say send him into space, the worst that can happen is an embarrassing tweet and we get a game with some misnamed characters that none of us can play because who among us could afford to go to space?

In terms of what’s next for Kojima though, Death Stranding 2 is officially in development, though there’s still no release date in sight.