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Jim Logan wrote: They're still licensed material. Hideo oversaw everything that was written in them and he wouldn't of allowed them out of he didn't want something in there.

I have to agree with the other IP. It's not canon. For example, Otacon mentions Emma to Snake yet the sequel confirmed that he never mentioned her until 2007. Naomi already knows that Big Boss was Snake's father, yet in the game she doesn't find out until he's tortured. Also, Roy Campbell tells Snake that Meryl is his daughter at the end of the book yet that doesn't happen in the canon ending of the game.