14 DAY TRIAL // Hideo Kojima, the leader of the development team working on the Metal Gear Solid series, says that the franchise can exist for another 25 years as long as new talented developers manage to understand its essence and continue to create interesting experiences built around it.
He tells the official Xbox site that, “The only thing I can say for certain is that I personally will not be able to carry MGS forward for another 25 years. However, with new talent at the helm guiding the series through each new stage, I can easily imagine a world 25 years from now where a new MGS franchise continues onward into the future.”
The wording of the answer suggests that Kojima has a clear plan to close the current story arc of the game at some point in the near future, but wants to leave the game world open for other potential narratives.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, which will act as a prologue for The Phantom Pain, will be launched on March 18, 2014, on the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4 and current-gen consoles.