I think its exclusive right now, but just give it a few months after the PS3 release and they'll start talking about the XB360 port. It seems pretty inevitable with the PS3 still having its relatively small audience.

The wording of the question is a bit strange. It is currently a PS3 question. Will it stay an exclusive is an entirely question. Please phrase the questions a bit better next time.

I meant PS3 exclusive.

I believe it will be a *timed* exclusive. Konami need to recoup money spent on developing MGS4 and chances are the installed base of the PS3 won't be enough, even after people who were waiting for the game buy one.

@anonuser: yeah agreed the wording is definitely awkward.

Awesome! Three MGS4 to 360 posts in four days! Our 2008 projection has increased to 273.75 such posts this year, each with a commenting thread as long, repetitive and silly as the last!

I still believe it will be exclusive. But we'll know for sure after the first month of sales.

Even then, I still believe it will sell enough on the PS3. Just a feeling I have.

Here we go again, stoking the fanboy flames.

God himself could say that MGS4 is PS3 exclusive and Kotaku would post that rumor from a friend of a friend that works in Konami stating that its right across the corner for 360.

Is there really a point to a poll like this keeping this alive? everyone has said no to any combination of phrases and or questions that could someone be interpreted as saying that it is anything else than exclusive in a clear, concise manner.

If you don't want to get a Ps3, that is fine, but you wont be playing MGS4, deal with it.

There's always Metal Gear Solid: Sub-Something.

So eventually, a year or two after Guns of the Patriot there will be Metal Gear Solid 4: Subterfuge. Which will be multi-platform or on the 360.

So technically Guns of the Patriots will be an exclusive.

I remember the Xbox port of MGS2. Horrible.
I hope they don't, it just makes MGS feel cheap and abused.

@SaintAnima: Perhaps, but MGS3 didn't do so hot and "enough" means 1 million copies on day one...

Either way, I'll be picking it up for PS3 unless its actually announced on 360. I'll wait a bit for it on 360 if I have to.

I'm still in the camp that the 360 will get a "Subsistence" like port after the PS3 launch. But if it never comes out for the 360, I wouldn't be too surprised either. How's that for taking a side :)

I refuse to comment again on this matter. I don't trust anything except the store shelves. Once it's on the shelf, I'll believe it.

it looks to be an even race so far. plenty of kojima fanboys it seems.

Holy crap, there are a lot of nonbelievers.

And then it came to mind, people believe in all sorts of things against all evidence, shame Kotaku is about games, the polls/topics on creationism/intelligent design would be priceless.

wow talk about a flame war... if people want it on the xbox360, ask kojima. oh yeah that's right... he said the only reason people keep bringing this rumor up is for wishful thinking. what a bummer.... o well, buy a ps3!

Hard to gauge, but in terms of will there ever be a version of MGS4 for 360, I think there will be. That doesn't mean it will be in 2008.

These posts are becoming hotbeds of flaming and anger... I have to wonder if this is being ignored, or this is being used as a way to easily find candidates come Monday.

I believe MGS4 is PS3 exclusive, until such time as that is proven otherwise. Much in the same way I've chosen to believe Bioshock and Mass Effect are 360 exclusive.

Right now I firmly believe that it won't be coming to the 360 but anything could and will happen.

I'll probably do better in Japan than here. But if the makers of the game and its stock holders are into making money, the smart move would be to make it for the 360 too, some time later.

I personally am not a big fan of the series. I just never got into it all. I don't like the main character, don't like how he looks, the guns never look proportionate to the body -- still doesn't from the screen shots (looks to small), and the suit he wears is way too tight. He looks like a scuba diver. Gameplay is fine, but I judge games a lot base on aesthetics. And yes, I do have the game on PS2.

are kotaku getting their quota of MGS4 rumours for the year over with early or something?

@seiryuu: I love how this guy uses the "stoking the fanboy flames" remark but yet is clearly a fanboy himself.

A) I absolutely HATE that freaking word. It makes me want to throw up.
B) Grow up.
C) As I've said in the other MGS threads, I'll be back here with the biggest I TOLD YOU SO in history when it's announced for the 360.

And NO, I do not own an Xbox 360. Or a PS3. Or a Wii. Choke on that.

I believe it'll take a year or two, but it'll get on the 360 eventually.

Does anyone still care?
Fanboys cry all day about how dumb MGS4 looks, then cream their pants every time an unsubstantiated rumor comes out regarding exclusivity (or the lack of it). Half of the 360's "exclusive" games are better on the PC, but how badly is that hurting the 360?

There should be a 3rd choice up there: I Don't Care

This one needs to stay on PS3 and I hope 360 doesn't get a 7 DVD box set of MGS4.

This will be on 360 at some point in time. Every single MGS game that came to PS2 was brought over to the xbox at some point.

I believe that it will remain a PS3 exclusive based on the way Konami handled MGS3. MGS and MGS2 have been ported left and right, with MGS2 being ported to Xbox a year after it came out, yet MGS3 has not been ported anywhere but the PS2 and it has been out for three years. Konami and Sony seemed to work okay with the Snake Eater exclusivity, I don't see why that would change for MGS4.

They wont make it for the Xbox360 as the port would be inferior and the market has already proven that if a port is not as good as the original, than it wont sell.

Fact is, the Xbox360 is not as powerful as the PS3 in terms of processing power. The 360 could handle the graphics but not everything else.

@Roflcopter_Down:

I would chalk that up to the fact that more people have 360's than PS3's.

I don't think they'll port it unless 6 months after the release 360 owners are foaming at the mouth to get it. You have to remember the 360 fanbase. Even if you have a lot of console sales how many of those would actually but MGS4. The percentage is a lot higher on the PS3 end. Even with a large fanbase it might not be worth porting.

"God himself could say that MGS4 is PS3 exclusive"
Kojima already said it was exclusive.

I believe that it will remain a PS3 exclusive based on the way Konami handled MGS3. MGS and MGS2 have been ported left and right, with MGS2 being ported to Xbox a year after it came out, yet MGS3 has not been ported anywhere but the PS2 and it has been out for three years. Konami and Sony seemed to work okay with the Snake Eater exclusivity, I don't see why that would change for MGS4.

@Torusan: You're probably right. But let's just say that it doesn't sell a million on day one. What's stopping it from selling a million over one week? A little more than that over the whole first month?

I'm pretty sure Kojima & co. have faith in their franchise. I'm sure they believe it's a system seller, and that the hardcore fans (which it is for), will gobble it up. I will be one of them.

Now, for some reason it doesn't sell at least around 500,000 the first month, then there is a problem with the PS3 userbase. Then, they can port it to the freakin' DS if need be.

my posts dont work :(

I voted exclusive. However, crazy things like this have happend before.

Remember the controversy over Resident Evil 4 ?

Game companies can have a pocket full of surprises.

I think they'll do some sort of Twin Snakes or Subsistence deal on the 360...eventually. The money's just too good to pass up.

Yes it is, but MGS4: *enter subtitle* will be on PC and 360 as well. Out sometime in 2009.

Oh so now it works...

Whats the point one year later, the story and ending will be spoiled by then, thats for sure.

@Rubix42: Erm, MGS2 was the only one. MGS1 was ported to the GC and MGS3 only had the PS2 as a home.

There is no way Xbox will get the full game. You would have to have around 4 discs for the xbox version...is that gonna sell well? No, it wont. Xbox might get some next gen metal gear, but it won't be guns of the patriots.

@Rubix42:
"This will be on 360 at some point in time. Every single MGS game that came to PS2 was brought over to the xbox at some point."

MGS3 never came to Xbox. What the hell are you talking about. Get your facts straight X-boy.

I am all for games exchange, unless it's a totally proprietary (i.e., developed in-house) franchise (Halo, Super Mario Brothers, Gears of War, etc.). Given that MGS has made it over to the 'box before, it should make it to the box this time too.

Similarly, Ninja Gaiden 2 should go to the PS3. More people get to play an awesome game. Seriously, how much of a child do you have to be to get **upset** that people with other consoles get to play games that originated on your console?

Brand loyalty simply *does*not*pay* when it comes to consoles. The consumers benefit most when there is competition across the board.

@Rubix42: What are you talking about? MGS3, as far as history tells, was never on the X-Box. MGS2 was, and like others have pointed out, it suffered from slow down, miraculously considering it was more powerful hardware. Anyway, just educating you a bit. Cheers.

Um... no, they weren't. MGS3 was never on the Xbox. The only MGS game Xbox had was MGS2:Substance and it didn't sell for crap.

Now let's think about this. MGS4 was built specifically for the PS3's hardware architecture. In order to put it on the 360, they'd effectively be doing a remake. With rising production costs, they'd basically be doubling the cost to make the game without any guarantees of recouping it. It's a big risk financially at this point.

@Viet0ne:

You know nothing about hardware. It may only be inferior in terms of backend processing, but definintely not in terms of graphics.

It's a Japanese developer, they are trying hard to bite the bullet and hold onto their nationalism and keep it on PS3 so it(PS3) doesn't die (so quickly)

@SaintAnima: Right, of course.

Kind of makes you think the reason for all the delays is so the PS3 can build a bit of a userbase before release so Konami actually knows it has the potential to sell a million within a good amount of time.

Yum yum! Extra spicy flame bait! :P

@mva5580: I don't own a Ps3, I actually only own a Wii and a 360. Facts are facts however, everyone involved has said no.

I find it funny that you would label someone a "fanboy" for stating fact then following with:

"C) As I've said in the other MGS threads, I'll be back here with the biggest I TOLD YOU SO in history when it's announced for the 360."

Attaching oneself to any hope, or belief, dim as it might be is a human trait I guess, so is deluding oneself.

I know this must be shocking but you don't have to be a Ps3 owner/fanboy/supporter/whatnot to get sick of 360 owner/fanb...etc unsubstantiated rumors with no basis on reality beyond wishful thinking.

I think MGS4 will be exclusive to PS3, but MEtal Gear Online will see release on both PS3 and Xbox 360.

Did Konami originally plan for it to be a PS3 exclusive? Yep.
Will they be thinking otherwise? Definitely.

At the time it was announced, there was a belief that the PS3 would make a bigger impact than what materialised, especially when it had MGS4 as an exclusive title. With PS3 not having as much a dominance as its precedessor, it wouldn't be farfetched for cold feet to appear.

MGS4 will still, by all accounts, remain a PS3 exclusive...at launch. However, Konami have to at least had to consider a move to the 360 as well a few months after launch.

This rumor needs to die, it's like the knight out of the Holy Grail - so fucking annoying, there's no way you're gonna bite me to death.