Honestly when I first saw Raiden fighting in MGS4, I asked myself why they didn't make him selectable. Raiden was genetically engineered and carries better nanomachines than Snake. Raiden was very badass in the cutscenes in MGS4. Solid Snake might be back in the future but I'm very positive that Kojima will be sticking to Raiden and probably Big Boss in the potential sequel to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater that might be announced tomorrow. Kojima express that he liked the jungle setting a lot, and is the reason why he made MGS3 a Big Boss game instead of Solid Snake. But Big Boss is the genetic DNA donor of Snake, so Big Boss is the same as Snake in a lot of ways. Snake and Big Boss are only different in personality.
Guys don't forget that Metal Gear Solid 2 was released on the original Xbox and Metal Gear Solid was remade for the Gamecube.
The only reason I'm talking about MGS on Xbox 360 is because during the last few months PS3 fanboys were giving Xbox360 wishful gamers a very hard time. Until yesterday even reporters from Cnet said that it was not likely that MGS franchise would be announce for Xbox 360. The unthinkable happened today, never say never.
I just beat MGS4 for the second time. I already own MGS4, so I don't really want it on Xbox 360
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A remake of all the MGS games is possible on PS3 because Bluray can support that capacity.
I have to say that M$ and Konami could had just annouced MGS for Xbox 360. But sending Kojima himself there was probably hard on their relationship with Sony.
But if you looked at the PS3 game case for MGS4, it does not say that is "Only on PS3" or "exclusive" anywhere. There was never an exclusivity deal on MGS4 between Sony and Konami. Kojima was just trying to remain as faithful as possible to Sony.
"kojima looked like he had a gun to his head and a sack full of cash to silence him"
Business is business
For one it's not exclusive a direct quote from MS after the show (the article is on G4TV) quotes MS as saying "You know we never said it was exclusive". So that pretty much answers that, if it were exclusive MS would have said it like 500 times a second. Also you point about MGS4 not having the "only on Playstation" branding is true but its a moot point since Sony only just started using that on their boxes, you will notice that Uncharted, Resistance 1, Heavenly Sword also lack the only on playstation branding. Again MGS4 is not coming to 360, MS paid for a version of MGS Rising (which is not MGS5 by the way). As far as Sony's reaction/relationship with Konami, I doubt it has done anyting at all as if you think for two seconds that Sony was surprised at all about the announcement yesterday, you be both wrong and ignorant. Much like FF13 Sony knew about the announcement, and near as I can tell just chooses to do nothing about it.
ReplyDeleteOff course Sony was not surprised that is why they didn't want to talk about MGS: Rising on their own conference, why hype a game that will sell probably more copies on Xbox 360(30 Millions units) Vs. PS3(22 millions). That game is coming on both consoles because the cost of developing games such as MGS is around $100 million dollars right now. Publishing on both console gives them the chance to sell twice as much. This is all a business, is all about selling the most games.
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