Watch Hideo Kojima Answer Game-Making Questions
Hideo Kojima sits down for WIRED Japan's Tech Support and answers questions about how he makes games. The interview is in Japanese. Watch the first 30 seconds with captions made in Translator.
Kojima answers the inbox
Hideo Kojima answers viewer questions on WIRED Japan's Tech Support after Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. He talks making his own genre, space stories and westerns, what makes a game worth staying in, how he researches, and which game he considers his best work. The Japanese Q&A runs about eighteen minutes.
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A Japanese Q&A about making games
WIRED Japan's Tech Support asks experts the questions people actually send in. This episode is Kojima after Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. He talks about what makes a game worth staying in, how he researches, and which game he considers his best work.
WIRED.jp posted it on December 20, 2025 as ゲームクリエイター、小島秀夫だけど質問ある？ | Tech Support | WIRED Japan. It runs 17 minutes 46 seconds. The first 30 seconds are the space-and-western teaser plus his Japanese introduction.
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The YouTube video is embedded directly from WIRED.jp. The first 30 seconds of captions can be displayed in English, Korean (한국어), or Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt). All three caption tracks were transcribed and translated in Translator (first 30 seconds only). They are not YouTube automatic captions. Spanish and Portuguese page copy is on this page without matching overlay tracks. There is no Japanese locale page.
Source: WIRED Japan Tech Support, featuring Hideo Kojima. Published December 20, 2025. Title: ゲームクリエイター、小島秀夫だけど質問ある？ | Tech Support | WIRED Japan. Video is in Japanese. Duration: 17:46.