"Metal Gear Solid" creator Hideo Kojima and Playstation 4 architect Mark Cerny's highly-publicized 10-day technology tour through the different Sony' studios is smoothly on track. Kojima and Cerny made quite a splash when they paid a visit to the Sony Computer Entertainment London Studio. The dynamic duo also went to see Media Molecule.
According to Playstation Lifestyle, Hideo Kojima and Mark Cerny have so far completed a visit to "InFamous" series' Sucker Punch Production. Cerny brought a little souvenir for this visit, and had his personal copy of the game "Rocket" for Nintendo 64 signed at Sucker Punch.
The visit to Sucker Punch was preceded by Kojima and Cerny's get-together with "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams. Kojima and Cerny also visited Sony Santa Monica, "Uncharted" and "The Last of Us" developer Naughty Dog as well as Bend Studio.
Kojima and Cerny took a turn at the new Playstation virtual reality game at Sony London, with a bit of a teaser in Cerny's Twitter account over Sony London's upcoming secret virtual reality experience. According to DualShockers, producer Ayako Terashima confirmed that Kojima got to play "The London Heist."
Visiting London VR team. Blurred out part of photo is the plan for their next VR experience -- sorry! pic.twitter.com/PKnjzoLhVB
— Mark Cerny (@cerny) January 25, 2016
Kojima and Cerny also tried their hands at the PS4 exclusive "Dreams" by Media Molecule. In his Twitter account Kojima spoke about how the "Little Big Planet" collaborators met for the first time. "With people in Media Molecule," Kojima wrote. "[We] had collaborated w/ [LittleBigPlanet] but was my 1st time visiting. Very unique & awesome studio!"
With people in Media Molecule. had collaborated w/ LBP but was my 1st time visiting. Very unique & awesome studio! pic.twitter.com/qT5J4YYUQ1 — HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) January 25, 2016
Push Square proposes that Hideo Kojima and Mark Cerny's European visits will likely involve Kojima trying out followed by a visit to French developer Quantic Dream in Paris and developer Guerilla Games in Amsterdam. Reports say that Kojima and Cerny's tour is an experiential tour that is linked to a PS4 exclusive that Kojima will be developing for Sony.
