It looks like Hideo Kojima isn't open to selling Kojima Productions.
The video game auteur confirmed that he's rejected "ridiculously high" offers for Kojima Productions, in order to stay independent.
Here's what Kojima said in a recent episode of his Brain Structure podcast: Let me reiterate that we are indies, we have no affiliations whatsoever and we are not backed by anyone. And every day I am approached by offers all over the world to buy our studio. Some of these offers are ridiculously high prices but it's not that I want money. I want to make what I want to make. That's why I created this studio. So as long as I'm alive, I don't think I will ever accept those offers. It's widely believed that the long development time of Metal Gear Solid IV was what initially started the deteriorating relationship between Kojima and Konami.
We wouldn't be surprised if Kojima's nasty divorce from Konami is what influenced his new approach. Keep in mind that Kojima spent decades working for Konami. But, at the tail end, the relationship between Konami and Kojima had soured. It's unfortunate that it cost us a complete version of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and, quite possibly, Silent Hills, but it is what it is.