In 2015, Konami pushed Hideo Kojima out and kept Metal Gear, a franchise he spent 28 years building and that sold over 60 million copies. He walked away with nothing but his name. So he rebuilt on one rule. Never again let a partner own the thing he made. That rule just got its first real test. Sony unexpectedly dropped PHYSINT, his return to the espionage genre, in a June email, and he spent three months quietly shopping for a new partner. A decade ago that email kills the game. Konami…