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TOKYO (Reuters) - Hideo Kojima, one of the world"s majority important video diversion creators, sees a destiny for digital party outward the box -- outward any box.

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Kojima, whose "Metal Gear Solid" games have sole some-more than twenty-seven million copies, says the destiny of video gaming is on networks that will free players from consoles granted by the likes of his long-time partner Sony Corp.

"In the nearby future, we"ll have games that don"t rely on any platform," Kojima pronounced at a headlines discussion announcing the ultimate monthly payment in a diversion tale that began in 1987.

"Gamers should be means to take the experience with them in their vital rooms, on the go, when they transport -- wherever they are and at your convenience they wish to play. It should be the same program and the same experience," he said.

Kojima was vocalization at an eventuality in Tokyo to item plans for the late Apr launch of "Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker," a video diversion he grown and destined and Konami Corp is rising for Sony"s unstable PSP device.

The prophecy of a destiny but diversion machines from a figure regarded as both beautiful nonconformist and blurb hustler appeared to clap a Sony senior manager on palm for the event.

"It"s a confidant prediction," Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Hiroshi Kawano told reporters with a shaken smile. "We goal he continues to rise for platforms, but we deeply apply oneself his clarity of receiving on a challenge."

"Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker" goes on sale in Japan at the finish of Apr and the United States and Europe in June.

Kojima, 46, is well known for unctuous peacemaker themes in to a diversion array that facilities secrecy fight and blow up tract lines that mostly simulate on the dangers of technology.

The ultimate monthly payment facilities Metal Gear"s niggardly hero, Snake, as he and a organisation of soldiers of happening set off to save Costa Rica from advance in 1974 by a puzzling army.

Kojima pronounced players are rewarded for auxiliary and speedy to jolt and constraint -- not kill -- rivalry soldiers they confront in sequence to put them to work.

"This is program that develops government skills," Kojima said. "You can even glow workers, something that you can"t unequivocally do in genuine life. In the game, I couldn"t stop you do it."

Kojima has pronounced he hopes to rise movies as well as video games. Like new Hollywood productions, his ultimate diversion is packaged with product placements to move in one more revenue, together with AXE bodywash from Unilever and Doritos corn chips and Mountain Dew from PepsiCo.

Kojima pronounced he hoped the recover of the new diversion on Sony"s PSP device would give his growth group a clarity of what functions in unstable gaming in credentials for his prophesy of gaming on direct over the Internet.

"I looked at this in piece as an examination directed at the future," he said.

(Editing by Nathan Layne)

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