^
Me too.
Although I will be honest; by MGS3, I got tried of the fiction mixed in with non-fiction times (Cold War), and generally comic book powered characters against someone who is not (player).
But, reading into how Kojima said more than once a certain MGS game is the last one, I think maybe he got tired of making MG games. Yet maybe Konami kept pushing him into doing one. So my guess is he just said enough of milking out the same characters over and over, among other company political things probably.
I am really curious where he goes after this. I feel he is big enough to get a publisher behind him, and if not, self fund something. It will be fun to see what he does away from the pressure of an A level game or whatever. And it does seem with Konami stripping the promo materials of his name, they do in fact own the franchise.