A Microsoft anunciou o lendário Hideo Kojima como o novo diretor criativo da Xbox Game Studios.
Kojima supervisionará a produção criativa de todos os estúdios internos, bem como de parceiros de desenvolvimento da Microsoft, atuando em uma função de liderança para ajudar as ideias a se concretizarem, bem como garantindo uma melhor comunicação e compreensão dentro do grupo.
"Definitivamente, não vou entrar para dizer 'esta é uma ideia idiota' ou 'esta é uma boa ideia'. Estou mais para ter certeza de que eles realmente estão fazendo as experiências pelas quais são apaixonados. Porque a paixão é realmente o que importa."
Estranhamente, parece que Kojima já está no cargo há três meses, mas só agora todos os detalhes foram acertados para ele assumir a posição na Microsoft.
Microsoft has announced the legendary Hideo Kojima as the new creative director of Xbox Game Studios.
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Kojima will oversee the creative output of all internal studios as well as Microsoft's third-party development partners, acting in a leadership role to help ideas come to fruition as well as ensuring better communication and understanding within the group.
"The best way for us to make sure our platforms evolve in a way that enables the best creative experiences is to make sure our creative leaders are closely tied into the work that's going on with the platform team," detailed Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz.
"What we're asking Kojima to do is a creative director role for us, overseeing all of the creative work that goes on at our studios all over the world, and the different projects that we have with external partners.
"His role there is to not only help the collaborations and to bring both the thinking from that region back to the platform and Xbox Game Studios as different things are incubating and being worked on, but the reverse is also true, of taking global knowledge of our platform efforts and different efforts at XGS and help provide context and guidance to those teams."
"What you're not going to see is ten Hideo Kojima games. The value of this role is for someone like myself going in and making those little tiny lights of an idea shine as brightly as possible and ensuring everybody within the organization clearly understands why we're making those titles, the purpose of those titles and their importance to Xbox overall.
Kojima said he hopes to help foster the passion of individuals, and in turn push Microsoft's talent to drop preconceived ideas about game design and strive for innovation.
"I'm definitely not going to go in and say 'this is a dumb idea' and 'this is a good idea'. I'm more about making sure they really are doing the experiences they're passionate about. Because passion is really central."
Strangely, it appears as though Kojima is already in the position as far as three months ago, but just now all the details have been worked out for him to take a position within Microsoft.
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Kojima supervisionará a produção criativa de todos os estúdios internos, bem como de parceiros de desenvolvimento da Microsoft, atuando em uma função de liderança para ajudar as ideias a se concretizarem, bem como garantindo uma melhor comunicação e compreensão dentro do grupo.
"Definitivamente, não vou entrar para dizer 'esta é uma ideia idiota' ou 'esta é uma boa ideia'. Estou mais para ter certeza de que eles realmente estão fazendo as experiências pelas quais são apaixonados. Porque a paixão é realmente o que importa."
Estranhamente, parece que Kojima já está no cargo há três meses, mas só agora todos os detalhes foram acertados para ele assumir a posição na Microsoft.
Microsoft has announced the legendary Hideo Kojima as the new creative director of Xbox Game Studios.
GamesIndustry.biz
Kojima will oversee the creative output of all internal studios as well as Microsoft's third-party development partners, acting in a leadership role to help ideas come to fruition as well as ensuring better communication and understanding within the group.
"The best way for us to make sure our platforms evolve in a way that enables the best creative experiences is to make sure our creative leaders are closely tied into the work that's going on with the platform team," detailed Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz.
"What we're asking Kojima to do is a creative director role for us, overseeing all of the creative work that goes on at our studios all over the world, and the different projects that we have with external partners.
"His role there is to not only help the collaborations and to bring both the thinking from that region back to the platform and Xbox Game Studios as different things are incubating and being worked on, but the reverse is also true, of taking global knowledge of our platform efforts and different efforts at XGS and help provide context and guidance to those teams."
"What you're not going to see is ten Hideo Kojima games. The value of this role is for someone like myself going in and making those little tiny lights of an idea shine as brightly as possible and ensuring everybody within the organization clearly understands why we're making those titles, the purpose of those titles and their importance to Xbox overall.
Kojima said he hopes to help foster the passion of individuals, and in turn push Microsoft's talent to drop preconceived ideas about game design and strive for innovation.
"I'm definitely not going to go in and say 'this is a dumb idea' and 'this is a good idea'. I'm more about making sure they really are doing the experiences they're passionate about. Because passion is really central."
Strangely, it appears as though Kojima is already in the position as far as three months ago, but just now all the details have been worked out for him to take a position within Microsoft.
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