Hideo Kojima had no idea he was ever offered a Matrix game project. “If someone had told me, maybe there could’ve been a way to make it work”

Metal Gear Solid Delta turned out to be a huge win for Konami. With Master Collection Vol. 2 probably close to wrapping up, and everyone waiting for news on the MGS1 Remake, it really feels like Konami’s on a hot streak right now. That’s why it surprised just about everyone when we learned they had actually turned down an offer to make a Matrix game back in the late ’90s. The story blew up online, and now Hideo Kojima himself is finally speaking up about it.

We never got a Matrix game by Kojima, but I say it’s never too late

A simple but definite “no” – that’s what went down behind closed doors in August 1999 when the Matrix creators pitched Konami the idea of making a Matrix game. A few years later, in 2003, we ended up with Enter The Matrix from Shiny Entertainment, but just imagining Hideo Kojima making a proper Matrix game is just mind-blowing.

As it turns out, Kojima didn’t even know the offer existed. It was the Konami CEO who met with the Wachowskis that day and said no. In his X post, he shared the whole story from his own perspective.

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Kojima said he was surprised to hear on social media about a Matrix game offer from the Wachowskis in 1999, since no one had ever mentioned it to him. He had met them a few times during their Japan promotion, including a meeting at Konami, but there was no talk of a game. He was busy with MGS2 at the time, but had he known, there might have been a way to make it work.

The whole “quick rejection” story always felt a bit off to me, especially since Kojima is a big Matrix fan, he even talks about the movie and its impact in his book The Creative Gene. And as plenty of comments on his X post suggest, even after 26 years, it’s not too late for Kojima to consider making a Matrix game. Just picturing what he and his team could do with today’s tech… we all deserve an amazing Matrix game, and there’s still time for it to happen.

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