Rumor/Leak: Valve attempted to hire Kojima & Nintendo offered Valve "six figures" for an exclusive

[Subutai]

Disclaimer: I have no clue how legit this is or if the guy in the chat is even an employee at Valve. So please take this with a grain of salt.

Not sure if this is widely known information, I did a search and didn't really see anything.

Along with the Source engine leak, a conversation between the creator of Valve News Network (Tyler McVicker) and presumably an employee at Valve also leaked. There's a bunch of stuff in it but I found these to be the most interesting.

Here are some snippets:

[10/25/2016 9:46:45 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: funfact: we wanted to employ kojima but sony outbid us by - like a lot
[10/25/2016 9:46:56 PM] Tyler McVicker: I have seen some shit, and I have stories
[10/25/2016 9:47:24 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: not when he visited, way back when all the shit at konami went down

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[3:18:12 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: just got out of the nintendo meeting
[3:18:18 PM] Tyler McVicker: Cool
[3:18:33 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: they offered 6 figures for an exclusive
[3:18:47 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: we're thinking about it
[3:19:05 PM] Tyler McVicker: That's pretty interesting
[3:19:21 PM] Tyler McVicker: Probably a Unity made game
[3:19:43 PM] Tyler McVicker: Something Puzzle, attached to Aperture
[3:19:44 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: could be unreal. most here seem to be team unreal and NX supports it
[3:19:55 PM] Tyler McVicker: Nice
[3:20:02 PM] Tyler McVicker: Unreal is cool too
[3:20:04 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: switch, sorry. that's a habit by now
[3:20:10 PM] Tyler McVicker: I still call it NX
[3:20:27 PM] Tyler McVicker: I reported on that thing since it's first announcement, it's NX to me for a while
[3:20:41 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: we got 5 of each
[3:20:47 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: there are 2 versions
[3:20:52 PM] Tyler McVicker: What do you mean each?
[3:21:09 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: one with just the screen part that looks more or less identical to the one in the reveal video
[3:21:36 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: and one with a "box" at the back with built in lan and a controller port
[3:21:57 PM] Tyler McVicker: Oh, so a dev unit
[3:22:09 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: yeah, they're final internals though

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The full chat log with more stuff about Nintendo here: https://pastebin.com/GBfpKXMs

Mods, please delete this thread or link to the chat log if it's not allowed.

 

[Asbsand]

[3:20:04 PM] Cephalon Cephalon: switch, sorry. that's a habit by now
[3:20:10 PM] Tyler McVicker: I still call it NX

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This part really read like fanfiction.

 

[Hybrid Rainbow]

Some pretty juicy stuff!

 

[tusk]

LMAO

 

[Guymelef]

Seems legit.

 

[Xavi]

Uhhh...lol

 

[KOfLegend]

This is hilarious LMFAO

 

[Deleted member 8196]

Only six figures? No wonder GabeN rejected the offer.

 

[ImaginaShawn]

Kojima is not worth it.

 

[Serene]

 

[CRIMSON-XIII]

Of course Sony outbid

 

[Linkie3]

Can you imagine, Half Life 3, directed by Kojima, exclusively for Nintendo Switch.

 

[Caspar]

Asking Valve to make a game for less than $1m?

 

[Zoon]

Tyler talked about that Nintendo exclusive some time ago and I think he has a video about it. Though this is the first time I'm hearing about Kojima.

 

[Kurt Russell]

I'd add that this came from VNN/Tyler in the title. Guy's not exactly a trustworthy source, so people might want to know where this came from before they read the thread.

 

[Soul Skater]

 

[JamRock7]

This part really read like fanfiction.

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I was gonna say the same lmao

 

[Deleted member 2791]

how fucking long is this pastebin

 

[UnluckyKate]

Nintendo offered a 6 figures checks to Vavle, to make an Aperture theme puzzle game exclusive for the Switch ?

Seems... very low for such an offer? under a million ?

 

[LinkStrikesBack]

...I mean, I might be badly estimating costs, but ... Wouldn't 6 figures be basically nothing for a videogame exclusive, lol. Surely that's the kind of thing where you expect them to bankroll a significant portion of development.

That makes it sound very made up to me.

 

[Foffy]

Asking Valve to make a game for less than $1m?

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Port of Portal 1 I guess? :p

 

[Nagito]

😂 come on OP

 

[Dennis8K]

I choose to believe this.

 

[Deleted member 23158]

Seems legit.

 

[Deleted member 51848]

This part really read like fanfiction.

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"And then the NX slid it's joycon inside the rough strap attachment..."

 

[Subutai]

I'd add that this came from VNN/Tyler in the title. Guy's not exactly a trustworthy source, so people might want to know where this came from before they read the thread.

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I added a disclaimer in the thread that it may not be legit. Sadly, I cannot edit thread titles to include that.

Seems legit.

6 figures seems pretty damn low for a Kojima exclusive.

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6 figures are for a Nintendo exclusive, not a Kojima exclusive.

 

[ABIC]

I am sure the average Valve employee makes more than 6 figures a year.

 

[Skittzo]

When did this conversation supposedly take place?

 

[Metal Gear Miyamoto]

Ha! You just know they approached Valve because of Miyamoto's love for Portal. No doubt he would love to have that game or a sequel on a Nintendo platform.

 

[Delaney]

"Most here seem to be team unreal and NX supports it
switch, sorry. that's a habit by now

*tips fedora*"

 

[____]

This part really read like fanfiction.

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LOL same thing I thought at that part.

 

[Chunchun]

It's legit. Half Life 3 story and why Laidlaw left Valve is on there too. Read it.

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Valve making a game on Unreal is the most real thing I've read all day.

 

[QuinchoOsito]

Can you imagine, Half Life 3, directed by Kojima, exclusively for Nintendo Switch.

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Lmaooooo I will never stop imagining this and chuckling to myself for the rest of my days

 

[Joni]

Six figures, that gets you a flash game from valve.

 

[-Tetsuo-]

Well obviously this is true

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Kojima is not worth it.

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Of course he is. WTF

Ha! You just know they approached Valve because of Miyamoto's love for Portal. No doubt he would love to have that game or a sequel on a Nintendo platform.

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Do you have a quote/source on Miyamoto's opinion of Portal? Curious!

 

[defaltoption]

Probably bullshit but I mean I'd imagine everyone tried to hire Kojima and everyone wants Valve stuff

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

6 figures? Nah. This is lies.

 

[Son of Liberty]

I'm sure a lot of companies were looking to work with Kojima after that whole Konami issue.

 

[Deleted member 23158]

I added a disclaimer in the thread that it may not be legit. Sadly, I cannot edit thread titles to include that.



6 figures are for a Nintendo exclusive, not a Kojima exclusive.

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Too late on the edit. 6 figures to be exclusive is pretty low as well.

 

[zombiejames]

Six-figures for an exclusive? 🤷‍♂️

 

[Cugel]

Reads like fanfic

 

[MP!]

Of course Sony outbid

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[Transistor]

Given that anyone can make a pastebin with anything they want, there's pretty much a 100% chance this is full of it. Given that, we're locking this thread.