"we are open to taking this franchise across to other platforms"



The franchise! doesnt mean mgs4 - just a spin off game or something..

Qj doesnt tell you the full news. They actually interviewed the Xbox Japan General Manager Takahashi Sensui, and asked about MGS4 going multi and he said it wasnt true and that he was only there because him and Konami go back a long time ago and are good friends. Check it out if you dont belive me.

I am so happy! I know that the 360 could really use this, all they have for the next year is Halo. Mass Effect does not appeal to most gamers like GeoW did. I may not like changing discs all the time but it will be worth it. It may even kill a lot of 360's, but at least we got a point from sony.



Go Halo, GeoW + that stupid Pinata game!



WOOO

Kojima is very Pro Sony and Konamis Pres seems to want this on other consoles. No wonder people get confused, Kojima says that it will never appear on anything other than a PS3, yet this guy says He wants to consider moving it over. Surely Kojima has the right to refuse this as it is HIS game.

"Now developers will wait and see which company will be willing to pay a lot of extra cash to make a game exclusive to a console."



There's nothing so far to suggest that this is a trend for future games, so I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill on that issue. :|



But I agree with the rest of your post. :)

It's been just a few days since they announced exclusivity at E3, and it would be ridiculous for Konami to make a huge announcement like that in regards to MGS4. Yea, I can see the franchise as a whole going to other platforms(as it has), but you don't announce exclusivity and then revoke it immediately afterwards. And people will say, "even though Kojima says it's exclusive Konami doesn't care", but that's just ridiculous to think that Konami and one of their most prized developers would be at such odds with each other.

All these rumors remind me of what happened before:



DMC 4.

AC 6

VF 5

GTA IV

Assasins creed.





It's like deja vu, Ps3 fanboys:



"Z0mg these are just rumors DMC is ALWAYS going to be exclusive to Sony"

Capcom: DMC 4 will be released on 360. No lost planet for PS3.

"z0mg well we still have GTA IV"

Rockstar: GTA IV is coming on 360...with more ***** (I don't give a ***** how much MS payed for more content, it means that I AM getting it).

"fine well we still have great new Ips like assasins-"

Ubisoft: "Nah thats going there too"

"well our racers are-"

Koei: We just canceled that game you guys were hyping so much about the graphics, what was it called erm...Fatal Inertia.

"well we have Virtua fighter, and that game requires true skill unlike DOA"

Sega: Which is exactly why we are giving it to 360, with MORE STUFF.



Does anyone see a pattern? I don't care whether you WANT to believe it or not, history repeats itself, and it WILL occur. Especially once the huge boom of consoles sell with Bioshock, Halo 3, and Mass effect, three of the biggest titles this fall. Not to mention winter with AC, DMC 4, etc. It doesn't matter that they are also coming out on PS3 because the simple fact is that the 360 is cheaper, and the inevitable price drop that will soon follow will make the 360 nearly 300 dollars cheaper than the more expensive (and soon only) version, causing more people to to buy 360s because they would rather SAVE that 300 dollars and get..hmm idk 5 games?

Hi Folks,



This is my opinion on the matter: MGS4, as it currently stands, will NOT be ported over to the 360. However, future titles in the Metal Gear franchise (and you can bet that there will be future titles) stand a pretty good chance of being multiplatform.



If you look at Pres. Tanaka's statement, "As we are aware of the popularity and hardware-driving power of this software franchise, GOING FORWARDS we are open to taking this FRANCHISE across to other platforms", it seems to imply that he is open to having FUTURE GAMES in the Metal Gear software franchise being released across multiple platforms.



It remains to be seen, however, whether Kojima Productions will be involved in the development of future titles in this franchise.



Regards,

MTK

here's the deal,

the ps3 has a pretty small install base worlwide. the cost of development for a game like metal gear is through the roof. now i understand kojima-son is not a big fan of the 360, however kojima-son is not in charge of konami business decisions. so trust me with a install base of over 10 mill by 08 , the 360 is almost certain to get a port of mgs4. it is more than likely that konami has a separate team porting it over as we speak right now. konami, just like any other business is interested in increasing its revenue in order to increase its profits. that is the goal of any company, it is common sense. konami's loyalty is to its investors, not to stupid acne faced, female repellent fanboys like most of u are. if anything the ps3 will get about 3-6 months timed exclusivity for this title. expect tekken 6 to go the same route.

Completely agree with you and the other guy that mentioned this.



Whether or not MGS4 ever does get ported over (only time will tell us, not fanboy gamers from either side), Kojima has definitely left the FRANCHISE of MGS open to all platforms...and he's smart to do so.



MGS is one of the most popular games ever created and releasing subsequent games on multiple platforms ensures them the ability to recoup development costs of MGS4 and whatever else he has planned.



Fanning the rumor flame is part of hardcore gamers lives, but 360 people shouldn't be upset if MGS4 never makes it them.

The day MGS4 is announced multiplatform sony is going to make a 400 ps3 and announce God of war 3 just to shut those laughing xbots up.

"You could take this rumor with as much credibility as you want...."

OR, you could simply read the word "Kotaku" and realize it is complete BS, just as everything they have ever written is.

If you take a good look at the pathetic past of the MGS4 rumor, the only supposedly 'credible' source that has persisted in maintaining this rumor through complete spin jobs and false information is the one name that pops up again and again, and that is Kotaku.



Funny part is, no one even reads the filth that Kotaku spreads anymore... so other people have to write stories/articles reporting on what Kotaku said in order for people to read it.

I'm not sure, however, that it makes whoever repeats the words of a compulsive liar look all that credible themselves either.





As long as the 360fanboy there wants to talk sales numbers and install bases, maybe he ought to realize that 11million shipped does not mean 11million sold, and even then 11million is very short of the 20million mark the original xbox reached before falling flat on its face and going extinct/obsolete (something PS1 still hasn't done).

That 20million falls extremely short of the 120million Sony fans who own a PS2.



This early in the game, talking about 7million or so actual users versus 3.5million users.... you may aswell be arguing on day one when only 7 units of the xbox360 and 3 units of the PS3 had been sold, going on about how teh xbox has over 50% more users!!! o-my-gosh!

(especially when 360 sales are currently down 80% compared to what they were just a month ago, while PS3 sales are up well over 120%... hey if you want to count chicks before they are hatched you may aswell start counting the eggs in their mothers tummy too huh?)



Metal Gear Solid 4.

PS3 Exclusive.

Deal with it....

...or don't. For all I care you may aswell work yourself up into a 360froth, drooling at the mouths as it were... so when the damned game does come out you will have no choice but to give in and buy a PS3 because it does have the games that you do want.

actually, that is wrong too. His actual response to the question was to point to Kojima on stage and says "Ask Him". Again, it is not confirmed OR denied.

man, as a 360 owner i really say it needs to be a ps3 exclusive. At least a timed one so that it means less monopoly or whatever. I mean, lower prices and so on.



#starting fanboy mode#

and, on top of that 360 version will be better of course lol

#end of fanboy mode#

yes u name 2 games that blow away anything ps3 has in the future and state thats all xbox has maybe go look through the schedule fantard



... and u think mgs will be on multiple discs maybe if they were lazy but look at mass effect even that fits fine on 1 disc. sony just releases every game and says oo its only possible on blu ray and you believe it lol



"changing discs all the time " in single player how many times would you have to change it... once every play through wow! that would be devastating wouldnt it!

You can defend whatever you want but two years from now (maybe even less) the 360 will be a joke.

Actually the rumor was that the AI would be better in the 360 version, not better in the PS3 version.





Let's take a gander at two BIG EXCLUSIVES.



Lair

supposedly got a 5.5 from EGM ; http://www.aeropause.com/archives/2007/07/lair_gets_first.php



Bioshock

supposedly is getting 90 and 95%, although I only have a 10/11 from OXM (yes I realize that is an xbox mag).

I agree!!!now die Hitler...lol

Technically Bioshock isn't really exclusive since its on PC but because it is on PC it gives people with high end PCs a reason not to bother with a 360.

lol



"hunk of junk" is more appropriate to something that has a 30% probability of breaking down in less than six months.



Not that you'd know the difference, anyway. Be more creative with your bull***** next time.

President Tanaka also stated, "As we are aware of the popularity and hardware-driving power of this software franchise, going forwards we are open to taking this franchise across to other platforms".

You couldn't have offered a weaker response if you tried. ;)



You may think the 360 will be a joke 2 years from now, that's your opinion (which means nothing as it's only speculation about the future), but one things for sure, you're a joke today.

In english what he said means : "We would be happy to have Microsoft hand us money for something we are probably going to do anyway".

Even if some metal gear game comes to 360 im not going to buy it. If its not made by kojima then im not going to buy it. Konami would be practically nothing without hideo kojima. Hes given them tons of great hits that sold very well. I can honestly say its not up to konami if it goes multiplat. Its up to kojima the freaking creator of MG.

I suppose you could just turn it off, if you were a complete idiot. What more likely is that they would remap those actions to some other button combination.



I'm sure they could fit it in..



Somewhere....



Six axis is pretty similar to having a third control stick, just not as responsive.

alot of things in the gameplay are shown as using the sixaxis motion controls, can they be turned off? i dont know myself. also there is more to the post than that one statement, i think if u r goin to reply it should be a bit more balanced than calling the guy a retard. also do u ***** have a ps3. no idiot would waste money on somethin they hate so much, u really are a sad pathetic fanboy with the mental age of about 12 (i may be complimenting you here as u may be much younger)

for now it won't go on the 360. But in a year or two. They wil release a special substancence version like someone said and it will def go multiplat but by then it won't really matter. Of and I don't know why all the fanboys are hating. from both sides cause I can't stand you stupid *****s. The Snake vs Zombie idea may go multiplat or go on the 360 so even if mgs4 doesn't go multiplat don't ***** about it cause snake Vs. Zombie will be a great experience so STFU

As has been said multiple times, the PS3 and 360 have sold at almost exactly the same pace if you match their launch times together.

That's good for Sony because despite their crappy line-up, it matched the 360's better line-up at its time.

Sales can only get better as more games come out, exclusive or not.

Konami pplz most likely will be true to sony and put mgs4 for ps3 first making better ps3 sell more then ther gunna prolly gunna make the spec for ps3 then mgs5 will prolly be sony and micro.

this wont happen... kojima is a perfectionist and he will not make a game and then cut things out to make a smaller version for the 360 just for $. (dont bring up MG on nes, not many had MSX in the west) If mgs series happens on the 360 in the future it will suck because 8 gigs just cant compete with 30 and i don't see the 8gig standard lasting much longer especially since the industry is so stale and there are many looking to break the circle of crap. Kojima is of a dyng breed of designers that takes pride in what he does and is not driven solely by the $. If he was like todays designers there would be 50 half assed MGS's out by now just like there is 100's of half assed fps and racing games. In the words of kojima himself "PS3 is like a theater Xbox like a dvd" just give it some time and we will see what he means :)

ooooo yet another rumor to give these xbots hope

O: Yes Snake, what do you need?



S: Octagon, something is wrong with my communication devise.



O: Snake, does it have a red flashing light and is it circular?



S: Yes Octagon, what am i supposed to do?



O: Send the 360 in its brown coffin and get a PS3!



S: Thanks Octagon, over and out!



Total time Metal Gear 4 on a 360, maybe two minutes tops before it crashes. Playing an Metal Gear 4 exclusively on the PS3, priceless babies!!!!

@ Dj nates:its otacon you dumb *****.get it right before you slander sites with your filth about a game you supposedly want to play.and second to every xbot out there,which i can tell is gonna rant after this post,why the hell do you wanna play all of sony's games?are you not content with what microsoft is giving you,or are you all just greedy little bastards that hate the idea of a good game.I hope mgs4 stays exclusive so you all can just ***** about not having it,since apparently GeoW isnt enough.why dont you all take your comments and shove them up your asses.

I consider myself a pc and console enthusiast. I love the mgs series and yes, both consoles have their issues(sony lake of sales for obvious reasons and xbox360s breaking). But I do believe we will EVENTUALLY see mgs4 on xbox360. BECAUSE of 2 reasons; 1. ps3 lackluster sale(I know it will cause people to buy more ps3s but wont be near the size of the ps2 launch for example), ps3 fanboys please grow up. Ya'll ranting on about them keeping it exclusive because the developer like the ps3 more isn't going to make the company play favorites and not rerelease it on another system.IT IS CALLED BUSINESS THEY ARN'T GOING TO KEEP IT EXCLUSIVE and only 400k copies they want to sell as much product as they can. 2. people going on and on about having to fit in onto 2 discs(doubt they will have to) and laughing at the 360 old data system are correct in some respects but very wrong in others. Sony is a company of failing media types; for example beta tapes, mini discs, and there has been rumors about disbanding blu-ray format on after their next system(3~6 years away) launches. I used to be a ps2 fan boy but sony, im afraid is becoming shovenist in nature trying to out do the competition in hardware. And to you 360 fanboys the 360 is the console of ports no exclusive software that will make me go out and buy one for it (unless i can mod it like the old xbox : ) ).

I never said you were a fanboy... But yes, ignorant people are irritating but DJ natas is not one of them AFAIK. The three most ignorant have been named already.

Well to be honest, it's no different than all those 'wannabe game developers' here who thinks AI performance in games is entirely dependant on floating-point arithmetic. :|

Did mummy and daddy help you with that post? :)

Your always the sense of reason in this mindless hate-fest...

"Take Gears of war for example. You won't see it on PS3 because (other than the fact that its published by Microsoft) they'd have to rebuild the game for Cell."



Their game engine UE3 is already optimized for Cell, and since GeOW is built on this engine, a port to the PS3 would be relatively simple. Just as their other UE3 game UT3 will be released first on the PS3 and PC followed by the 360 version (thanks to their engine), GeOW could easily be ported to the PS3.



"The one with MGS1 + MGS2 original + MGS1 + MGS2 remake + MGS3 + MGS:Portable Ops? I can see that showing up on Xbox360."



Yep, that certainly is possible.

Assmoxa is a HER?

I'd like to see all the features graphics be stripped out so they can fit 50 gigs into DVD's. That's a lot of "Insert Disc XX" every so often. Besides, I've yet to see Snake Eater on the box. It's been 3 years and it's still on the PS2. Instead of wondering if MGS4 is coming to the box go wonder if M$ is ever going to fix your RoD situation, because if MGS4 goes to the box (which it's not) it's going to fry your system. So much for that 3-year warrenty.

halo 3, mass effect, fable 2 ... yes MS have a lot of overhyped bull***** ^_^

paparazzis are to blame to all the ramblings in the world of video game news. they are so stupid, they take a joke from a Titled person and make it NEWS.



MGS franchise doesnt mean its actually MGS4,

my guess is that xbox 360 and or Wii may also get their own version of Metal Gear Online. some cheesy MGS version for the DS. all new revisions of metal gear digital graphics novels and mgs card games.



oh and 4th quarter 2008, hmmn by then the hype is all dry, ps3 still manages to sell because of all other great titles. hey konami, if you release MGS4 on the said time period and have people unhyped MGS4 sales will be lower as to if you release it on 1st quarter. just like these Metal Gear Anniversary game set of everything on ps2 and psp, which is not selling very good here in japan. in most stores they have to mark down the price from 6980 to 5600 Yen just so they can move it out.

Yet another "MGS4 for X360 rumor" I've never seen those before...

"The one with MGS1 + MGS2 original + MGS1 + MGS2 remake + MGS3 + MGS:Portable Ops? I can see that showing up on Xbox360."



Portable Ops on the 360??

The system isn't worthy enough for my to fully say it's name. By 'Box" I meant Xsux160, I'm sure you read the rest of the post.

Id like to see microsoft squeeze 50+gb into 8GB,cause they even have trouble fitting a barebones OS into 2gb,which is huge for an OS.Theyd have to downscale the game to like 480i and *****,and downgrade the sound to 2.0 stereo.

"lol, guess the xbots are as dumb as they get"



You call people dumb and yet all you do is make dumb comments in each post. R-i-g-h-t!



"By 'Box" I meant Xsux160, I'm sure you read the rest of the post."



Yep, just as I thought, you're a child who thinks it's 'cool' to call a product stupid names. Tell me, do you lick your tongue out at the 360 whenever you see one? Given your low mental age, I would guess that you do.

medul geer solid is teh suxorz.

Sony has a signed deal where tekken will only be released on there systems.

Show me a single person who said that.

It sure wasn't me. Floating point matters, parallel processing matters, conditional logic matters, and many other factors.



Saying that cell sucks entirely at AI because of logic performance is as simplistic as saying GHz is the only way to measure processor performance.

a perfect 360 game XBOX360 ROX!

you talking about proscesing power right? cause having the power doesn't mean its easy to use it

and your wrong

porting his games to other consoles.



Kojima is VERY PRO SONY! Plus we don't really know how powerful the Cell Processor really is, all people are doing is speculating that its identical to the 360 but again, this is speculation, no one knows how powerful the cell processor is because it just came out and is new tecnology.



People said that the Sega Saturn was identical to the PS1 but what people don't know is that all the companies didnt use the full power of the Sega Saturn, they could only use half of it. Its alot powerful than the PS1 because no one used the full power of it cause it was so hard to develop for.



Not alot of people like switching discs cause its very annoying and people are very lazy.



I love both the Xbox 360 for its awesome shooters and I love the PS3 for how light the controller is and its alot lighter than the 360 controller but I love the 360 controllers looks.