Metal Gear Solid Delta exists because Konami was starting to get worried that the “younger generation of gamers aren’t familiar with the Metal Gear series anymore.”

A screenshot from the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake.

For many people, the idea that the Metal Gear series and its main man Solid Snake would be unknown to a generation of gamers would be laughable, but that’s exactly what Konami and the team working on the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta are afraid of.

In an interview in Play issue 46, series producer Noriaki Okamura was open about the fact that many younger gamers simply don’t know very much about Metal Gear. “One of the things that really sparked us to do the remake in general is because we realised that a lot of the newer, younger generation of gamers aren’t familiar with the Metal Gear series anymore”, he explains.