Hideo Kojima once considered he might only "have 10 years" left to create new things, and he's given his assistant "a USB stick with all my ideas" as a kind of "will"

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"This is a fear for me – what happens to Kojima Productions after I'm gone"

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Hideo Kojima wants to make sure the staff at Kojima Productions are all set for the future even if he's no longer alive, and has shared a USB stick with "all my ideas" with his personal assistant, "kind of like a will."

Kojima has a lot of unique ideas. Only this week, the Death Stranding 2 director shared a concept for a game where the protagonist would age over time, becoming weaker but wiser, although he asserted that "no-one would buy it!" Clearly though, he must have plenty of other ideas that he thinks people would buy, and he's letting his staff save those for if they ever need them if he's not around.

"I gave a USB stick with all my ideas on it to my personal assistant – kind of like a will," he tells Edge in issue 411 of the magazine. "Perhaps they could continue to make things after I'm gone, here at Kojima Productions… This is a fear for me – what happens to Kojima Productions after I'm gone. I don't want them to just manage our existing IP."

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