Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater was greenlit in part because of Konami's growing concern that younger gamers are no longer familiar with its iconic franchise, a senior company official said. This revelation expands on the previously shared story about how the MGS 3: Snake Eater remake came to be.
Back in May 2023, Konami said that it was open to remaking more Metal Gear Solid games after MGS Delta. On that occasion, a company representative revealed that Konami decided to start with Snake Eater rather than MGS1 due to popular demand.
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But popular demand wasn't the only thing that prompted Konami to consider MGS remakes in the first place. Another contributing factor was the growing concern that the Metal Gear series was declining in popularity. That's according to series producer Noriaki Okamura, who suggested as much in a recent interview with the UK magazine Play (via GamesRadar). "A lot of the newer, younger generation of gamers aren’t familiar with the Metal Gear series anymore," Okamura explained, stating that this realization was...
