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In this interview Kojima explicitly explains that MGR is different from Kojimas vision for what takes place after the events of MGS4 and that it is a "parallel story", aka taking place in an alternate universe. He also refers to it as a spinoff, and says it is platinum games interpretation of the story.

This makes a tremendous amount of sense to me because MGR essentially retcons the ending of MGS4 as well as ignoring most of the character development that ocurred to Raiden in that game.

I still love MGR as a game, but its clear the story does take place in an alternate continuity.