It was more like about 10 years before that? The narrative was inspired by Jean Baudrillard. The guy who also inspired The Matrix.[1] 10 years before that game he was talking about the Hyper Reality of the Gulf War; that what “really” happened was dictated by CNN.[2]
But it’s not like those games give credit to all contributors equally.
There was a really interesting panel I went to a few years ago talking about the idea of Kojima writing some shockingly ahead-of-their-time things: https://youtu.be/6kPOj0msHCE?si=CF1wlvE0N0ZL2Yzn
The wildest thing about Kojima devoting an whole game to the way mis- and disinformation spreads via meme is the part where it then happened to him personally after the Abe shooting [0]