Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-1672596-20150916104633

Kornflakes89 wrote: The fact that he calls it a continuation is enough to say that it's canon until stated otherwise.

You can point out the fact that it's a spinoff title all year long if you'd like, it wouldn't make much of a difference because there is no unwritten rule that states spinoff titles are obligated to be non-canon.

You can point out how Kojima listed off the games in his saga all year long, it won't alter the fact that all that is is listing off games he's personally directed. Of course he doesn't include it in his saga because he didn't direct it, he never once said Rising was non-canon, same for Portable Ops.

Hell you can even bring up the whole "All games in the HD/Legacy Collection are canon." thing if you wanted to sink that low, it still won't mean anything because just because all games in them are canon, doesn't mean all canon games are in them.

As it stands, both Rising and Portable Ops are canon until Kojima or whoever comes in to replace him as the series writer/director says "Portable Ops/Rising are non-canon." anything less is essentially worthless. Funny you should mention the Legacy Collection, because that has at least two examples of entries that are explicitly non-canon by any definition: Both of them being the Digital Graphic Novels for MGS1 and MGS2. Not only are they not directly made by Kojima at all, but they also in the case of MGS2 didn't even match up well with the game it was adapted from. Which makes the claim that Kojima only included games he personally made to be a flat out lie.