Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-1672596-20150916110004

Doulomb wrote: Fantomas wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Need I remind you that Resident Evil CODE:Veronica and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis were side games, yet both games were obviously canon? Resident Evil 3 is a numbered entry in the series. In what universe is it a side game? Weedle literally insists that MGSV is a spinoff game, but PoOps isnt. In case you hadn't realised it already, the guy has a completely warped point of view when it comes to stuff like this. To elaborate on what he's referring to: Kojima made a Tweet a few days before MGSV's release that basically implied that the game was a spinoff, if not directly stated it: Here's the Tweet in question: https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/637435774162436101

At least some other people picked up on the hint based on some posts here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=177166931&postcount=8411 and TVTropes (albeit under lying creator) even noted Kojima stated such was the case here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain