Wada stated earlier this week that ‘however you think about this, this is a negative for business’. It’s clear that Kojima has his support in this matter, and he went on to say:
During the recent Game Awards ceremony, it was allegedly reported that Konami’s lawyers banned Kojima from attending. The host for the evening, Geoff Keighley, stated that:
This was met with a loud chorus of boo’s from the audience and to all good intention it is incredibly strange as to why he couldn’t accept his own awards. In his absence it was actor Keifer Sutherland who was brought up to the stage to collect it.
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