Are you young and don’t know anything about Metal Gear Solid? So you’re the exact reason Konami is making Metal Gear Solid Delta

There are many reasons to remake a game, but for Konami, their decision to make Metal Gear Solid Delta stems from a concern for young people.

Can kids today even tell you which one is Big Boss, The Boss, Solid Snake, Liquid Snake or Venom Snake by looking at pictures of them? Granted, most people probably can’t do that, let alone young people, but given that the Metal Gear Solid series has been essentially dead since 2018’s Metal Gear Survive, a game without the involvement of creator Hideo Kojima, the Interest in the series hasn’t exactly been at an all-time high. There are plenty of fans, of course, but most probably grew up with them, and in a recent interview with Play magazine (via GamesRadar), series producer Noriaki Okamura talked about the fact that many younger games simply don’t. they do it. I know a lot about Metal Gear.

“One of the things that really drove us to do the remake in general is that we realized that a lot of the newer, younger generations of gamers are no longer familiar with the Metal Gear series,” Okamura explained. Ignoring Survive, which didn’t do all that well, there hasn’t been a new game since 2015’s Metal Gear Solid 5, an entire decade in which many new players won’t have been around to see a new mainline series. title that comes out.

“It was basically our mission, our duty, to continue to make sure that the series endures for future generations,” Okamura continued. “After all, we left a lot more than DNA, as Solid Snake would say, but then again, who is Solid Snake?” It’s a good question and it’s really not easy to answer.

Obviously, fans will also know that Metal Gear Solid 3 is chronologically the first in the series, which is also partly why they chose to remake it. While Metal Gear Solid Delta was originally supposed to release this year, it is now likely to release in 2025, although it does not have a release date yet.