Kojima explains why MGS: Peace Walker is on PSP, not PS3 |
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With the impact and acclaim that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots got on its run on the PS3, you'd think that the MGS with Big Boss on the spotlight will also make its run on the PS3 - would've made for eye-popping graphics and great cutscenes again, yeah? Well, certain considerations were made, and it was decided that the War Economy would be better off with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker heading for the PSP. Hideo Kojima explains why.
Really, I don't think much about whether a platform's portable or for the home. In other words, it's not important to me. With the PS3, you've got a whole range of middle- and high-school kids who can't play your game because their parents don't let them play video games at home. Those kids can whine at their parents all day about how the game's anti-war and anti-nukes, but they'll just respond 'Well, you're still killing people with guns, aren't you?' and brush it off. I wanted to go the extra mile for gamers in that sort of situation. That was one of the reasons I chose the PSP.
On the same interview with 1UP, Ubisoft creative director Patrice Désilets praised Kojima for his risky move, seeing as the previous MGS installment was on a much more powerful platform.
So at the end of the day, Kojima did it so that more people, particularly the kids, would be able to enjoy the game whenever, wherever.
More on MGS: Peace Walker:
- Peace Walker to have interactive cutscenes, singing and screaming weapons
- Meet the cast of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker...if you don't want possible spoilers
Via 1UP
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It felt more like he was dodging the question?
i just thought i post that link about pixel junk whinging about not porting anymore minis to PSP due to poor sales because of piracy.
ok pixel junk, this is a good game, MGS will sell
your games arent, they wont sell, not because of piracy.
because you suck
Pixel Junk's games IMO are superb games. Monsters is one of the best tower defense games you can get your hands on.
Piracy is a huge problem all over the PSP front and of course it's hurting sales... but I'm glad developers are still willing to make games. Else us legit PSP gamers would be SOL.
I don't think its the piracy that they are owrrying about. Its more of devlopment costs. Sony stuff costs more that MS(cause ms pays the dev) and the Wii(close to being for free).
Its just devs trying not to port games and pay expensive royalties.
Piracy on the Wii and NDS is rife. I know 8 year old kids with the R4 cards. And i know 100's of chipped Wii's.
PSP is a minority, around 23 out of 700 people in my college have CFW.
PS3 piracy is zero but games do get released but with no way to play them unless you have a dev console.
its pretty awesome that he put it in a way that I could relate to. I remember when my stepmother would get mad at me when playing Doom
My parents never used let me play anything in peace when I was back in school. I take PSP over PC/PS3 anyday.
its not piracy its digital distribution...how many PSP owners are too noob to hack a psp alone? most of them have no clue about how to use the PSN store....so for them to download PixelJunk's game would be impossible, and also might i add alot of the kids that own psp (lower than 18) cant use a credit card to make a purchase...so that's where PS Store fails, the PSN cards arent distributed worldwide yet and that doesn help the PS store make sales now does it...
a very clever answer.
hitting multiple situations in one big swoop.
lucky me i have little restrictions to my gaming,
before i turned 14 i was relegated to playing 2-4 hour on saturdays and sundays. on weekdays i sometimes get 1 hour a night or none.
when i turned 14 my gaming hours became longer, i can play all day when there's no school up until 11pm. same on weekends or after school.
when i turned 17 all my time restrictions are removed, when xenosaga and metal gear for ps1 were released i played 1 month straight everyday. wake up - eat - clean self - clean room - play ps1 - eat lunch - play ps1 - snack while playing - eat dinner - play ps1 - clean self - sleep then do it all again tomorrow.
never got any restrictions to what types of games im allowed to play all my life, though i never really got into any mature game until i was really 18!
now i have a 6yo and a 4yo, i let them gta n metal slug collection, their clever enough to know what is a game and what is bad in real life. but they prefer to play digimon (ps2), ben 10 and naruto shippuden 4 nowadays rather than the latter.