Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | 11:17 BST
Konami: London Kojima signing “very well attended,” world tour detailed
Metal Gear boss Hideo Kojima appeared at HMV in Oxford Street today, alongside long-time Snake art-man Yoji Shinkawa, to sign stuff for fans, and a Konami UK rep told us the event was “very well attended”.
We’re getting pictures tomorrow morning, apparently.
The London signing was the first step in a global promo tour to support the launch of Metal Gear Solid 4, which Konami details today on a dedicated website showing locations and date you can get a chance to meet the Japanese master.
Click through for a look. We’ll post the photos as soon as we get them.
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Posted in: Action, Konami, PS3, UK
Tags: hideo kojima, hmv, metal gear online, metal gear solid 4, Yoji Shinkawa
15 comments
#1
Psychotext
02/06/08, 3:52 pm
Geekslol
#2
Blerk
02/06/08, 4:03 pm
Seems a bit premature to do it today. If they’d done it after the launch he could’ve signed MGS4 boxes. You know, for ebay and stuff.
#3
ecu
02/06/08, 4:04 pm
He was signing MGS4 sleeve/cover inserts. So that when you get the game, you can put that insert in your game box.
#4
Blerk
02/06/08, 4:09 pm
Ah!
#5
Tonka
02/06/08, 4:17 pm
A clever ploy to make the pre orders stick no doubt.
#6
Blerk
02/06/08, 4:25 pm
Why on Earth would anyone be cancelling their MGS4 pre-orders?
#7
Tonka
02/06/08, 4:42 pm
I can think of 8 reasons
#8
Blerk
02/06/08, 4:44 pm
It’s a pretty poor state of affairs if people stop buying anything that scores less than a 9. I can’t honestly believe that a couple of 8/10s would ever damage sales.
#9
Tonka
02/06/08, 4:53 pm
酸菜
#10
Psychotext
02/06/08, 4:54 pm
I get the feeling that the people who turned up for autographs would buy it even if it scored 1 and was proven to increase your risk of facial warts.
#11
Psychotext
02/06/08, 5:00 pm
Looks like over 100 people in the line:
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~adamesat/Stuff/Kojisign/100_3531.JPG
Seems about on par with what I saw when Terry Pratchett was signing books in London… which is impressive ‘cos Pratchett is a popular guy. =)
#12
ecu
02/06/08, 5:23 pm
Nobody is going to cancel their order over an 8/10 review, Tonka is just being a pain in the arse for the hell of it.
#13
morriss
02/06/08, 5:30 pm
I thought you’d be down there snapping away, Pat and updating the site from your mobile or something!
#14
patlike
02/06/08, 5:35 pm
I wasn’t going to go to London just for that, I’m afraid
#15
Tonka
02/06/08, 6:09 pm
Judging by the behemoth thread over at EG a 8/10 ame isn’t worth playing. I think we are rapidly approaching a scale that stretches from 9.0 to 9.9 where 10 is perfect and therefore never handed out.
Once in a month sub 9 games are rounded up and ridiculed.
Would have loved to have a Kojima signature. LAst MGS game I played was pure genius.