Konami sucks. I don’t like Kojima, but I still root for him when it comes to Konami. That company is cartoonishly stupid.
Afaik the new CEO was a thundercunt and told everyone to cut corners. Kojima told him to fuck off and continued implementing stuff into MGS, which in turn delayed the games launch. (If you are new to this Universe, making a good game takes time and love. This is something travellers from the Multiverse, CEOs and chimps with the Down syndrome don’t understand).
At this point, Konami shutter kojima productions, throw away the fox engine they had made for all Konami developers to use and fired the goose that laid their only golden eggs. At no point does kojima go more than 4 years between new products for Konami.
If you want to look at it from the purely business perspective, then you can make the argument that their new ceo wanted out of the video games business to focus on pachinko. That's a valid thing to make claims around. They basically killed off all their video game products.
But if you want to claim that that the game just needed to ship regardless, then well, reviews, critics, players, consumers, they'll all disagree with you there. The number one complaint is that this game wasn't finished. And as we've learnt Konami seemed to have bad blood that made them vindictive against the developers of the game that likely made things worse.
You are, clearly. You're getting absolutely shredded.
Reviewers, sales figures, and this community, all vigorously disagree with you. None of your statements withstand even the barests scrutiny.
You seem to be mistaking your personal preferences for the wider consensus.
"Keighley went on to detail how shocked he was when he found out that Konami didn't allow Kojima to attend last year's Game Awards." (a quote from the article)
I'm pretty sure he started his own studio because they fired him. Though I suppose that's just order of operations.
The weird part was they denied to the public that he would no longer be working for Konami. Kojima was verbal for months that he was no longer working for Konami, they just pretended he still did.
Rad ad campaign. Most people didn't even finish the first highway.
Probably because the story was nonsense (it wasn't but it was presented in horrid fashion) and the performances were phoned in. Couldn't keep people interested.