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I kinda think Kojima will just be making nods between the two games. Seems to me that it really is Kojima's last Metal Gear Solid game, with the character Hideo and the references popping up here and there (as RedArmyRockstar pointed out), and he's really really trying to make it one to remember.

So, with that said, it's very probably Chico (thought I read somewhere that Kojima said "he's having a better time there, than in his cage", could have been fake) because he's going to have all those Ground Zeroes resources and while it may not be trolling, he's just playing around a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a few magazine covers in The Phantom Pain featuring Norman Reedus on the front, and in turn we may see a copy of The Phantom Pain lying around Silent Hill when Silent Hills is released. A nice little nod, not unlike the sorts of things you see Quentin Tarantino do in his movies, after all, Kojima is a film director whose films come in video game form.