Metal Gear Solid 4 on Xbox 360?

29 October 2006

Posted by:Ferry

The cover (click to enlarge) of December’s issue of EGM clearly says “Metal Gear Solid 4 on Xbox 360?”. Xboxic muses this could this be the final blow to the major exclusives PS3 has over the Xbox 360.

Che Chou, ex-1UP staffer and developer at Microsoft’s Forza 2 team, has this to say about it:

“It’s simply a rumor that Konami higher-ups are pressuring Kojima Productions to consider making MGS4 a multiplatform game because production costs on the game are unsurprisingly high and only getting higher. With PS3 install base numbers not looking all that rosy due to console cost and manufacturing problems, Konami is scared they can’t recoup their investment on only 1 platform alone.

It’s also a nice way to maybe blackmail Sony into giving Konami an incentive [$] to keeping the game a PS3 exclusive, in my opinion. Whatever the case, I highly doubt it’s going to happen so quit building yourself a disappointing kiloton bomb.” It’ll be an interesting 2007 if it goes multiplatform!

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Coollimes

If MGS 4 was to be launched on 360 as well, every ps fan would be really gutted. MGS has always been a ps game. I’d love to see the look on my sony fanboy friends faces if konami did this! lol/ ; )
Coollimes

If MGS 4 was to be launched on 360 as well, every ps fan would be really gutted. MGS has always been a ps game. I’d love to see the look on my sony fanboy friends faces if konami did this! lol ; )
GamerGuy

it would be cool, i have an xbox 360 and i would want a ps3 but it’s out of my price range, i hope it comes out for the 360 at some point
Wolf

MGS4 Should be released on 360. Because konami would make more money because they will be selling the game to the owners of the 360 and the owners of the ps3.
MACDRE

i don’t know why Kojima Productions are going to put it on the 360 . the playstaion system gava them their big break not xbox …….. i say no metal gear for 360.
MACDRE

o and i also found this

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has confided that he considers Meal Gear Solid to be “made for the PlayStation,” and that his Xbox 360 games will be all-new creations not based in the world of Metal Gear.

Sorry, Snake — Sony pwns you

Bad news for Metal Gear fans — from the sound of things, Hideo Kojima has no intentions of bringing E3 favorite Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to the Xbox 360. Or any other Metal Gear Solid game, for that matter.

Kojima told Official Xbox Magazine that he feels the Metal Gear series is “made for for PlayStation platform.” While his development studio, Kojima Productions, is working on Xbox 360 titles, these will be all-new games that are set outside of Metal Gear — that’s according to Computer and Video Games magazine.

Another interesting tidbit is that Metal Gear Solid 4 will take advantage of the PlayStation 3′s online functionality, as well as the motion-sensitive controller.

- GAMEPRO.COM
solid_snake

I seriously doubt that MGS4 will come out for x360 cuz if Hideo Kojima wanted it on that platform he himself would have announced it already
Reaper

MGS4 might come out on 360 between the 1st and 2nd year MGS4 comes out though just because of buisness.
Kabapu

I could possibly imagine it being ported after a year or two, but it definitely won’t be until then. Not to mention it would have to be gutted and placed onto at least 3 discs most likely (from what I’m reading regarding the scope of the game).
Andy

ok guys kojima getting is quoted all over this thread.
he said in a recent interview
When asked whether MGS4 could work on 360 he said “Yes, that’s technically possible.” It’s not that he doesn’t like Xbox 360, see, he just doesn’t want to do things second. So he’s a bit like those kids who “hate” bands because their mates found out about them first.

now the truth is sony are paying a shit lod to keep mgs4 but the truth is PC,XBOX 360 and PS3 are at the limit of technology. there is no real difference in development abaility on any platform, although sony is apparently harder to code for.

Konami is a business and anyone with half a business mind will realise that the 1 million sales konami need to return profit CANNOT be done on a system with ~88,000 sales. FULL STOP

games=profit if not the game changes or is dumped.
Konami will get a grip soon and it wont be a surprise that the PSÂ£ fanboys will be raging!

Anyway how manyt bull PS3 posts are there slaggin the xbox 360. Maybe if the PS3 system kept them ENTERTAINED like the 360 does they wouldnt have he time or need to go through EVERY forum trying to convince themselves that hte money was worth it.

the 360 it without its problems but damn its cheaper and looks better on HD tv’s (PS3 fanboys might not know this due to the price they paid for their system keeping them away from expensive systems lol!)

PS3 fanboys roll over MS is massive BIGGER than sony and can draw on develpoment for a myriad of prior systems. Sony has what the playstation serious and TV’s.

mmm great for gaming dev!