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Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

ShirtGuyDom — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:55:12 MST

@sascha23:

And I recommend you find better things to do than be terrible at noticing satire.

ShirtGuyDom

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Malice — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:36:54 MST

EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PS3...for a few years atleast :) All we need tho mwuahuahua...hd-dvd CHECK, 360...

Malice

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Black Arts Viper — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:39:05 MST

You know what I find funny? The fact that as soon as a game is announced as exclusive, people everyone start talking about how it would be better for them financially to put it on all systems so that more people can buy it and the company will only reap benefits.

Way to beat their research department, I am sure your cheque's in the mail.

Black Arts Viper

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TaMs — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:05:01 MST

How many confirmations this needs? It has been confirmed to be ps3 exclusive for numerous times already and always someone goes and says that it will be on xbox360 ;D

TaMs

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

sycodude — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:16:57 MST

not really though. MGS1 to 3 have all been awesome. MGS4 is a natural.

sycodude

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

MrBrutesnipe — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:40:56 MST

Metal Gear has been shite since the 2nd one, so whats the big deal???

This rumour is probably created by those within the PS3 camp to create some sort of hype over a game very few really care about.

MrBrutesnipe

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Goreful — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:10:38 MST

In other news....

The Wii keeps outselling the PS3. The Xbox 360 still have a large library of games. Oh, the PS3 still remains last and pretty lame.

Goreful

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

The Dark Defender — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:06:46 MST

BAH. That's not what an anonymous source on an internet forum told me.

The Dark Defender

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Jay — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:37:03 MST

Agree, it totally makes no difference for current ps3 players they will get what kojima promised for and will surprise them with even more stuff. All this fuss is for the new users, sony is putting high hopes on this game to be a major console seller.

Jay

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Gekyo — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:41:24 MST

id hate to say i told ya so

Gekyo

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

-Sigil- — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:14:36 MST

If they don't sell a million on week one (like they stated they needed)then it's more likely that it will come to the 360. A few points though, firstly I am unsure whether it will before Sony fanboys start squeeling it won't. There's been a lot of rumours and that usually doesn't happen unless it's partly true, it didn't happen for MGS3 so why MGS4? Do people even need MGS4 on 360?

Anyway Konami wants it on the 360 and Kojima doesn't, if sales are low it will move because as a company they need to turn a profit and they already said that the game was able to run on 360. It's just a waiting game and watching the Sony fanboys get riled can be quite fun.

-Sigil-

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

CommanderSheppard — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:36:59 MST

It will be exclusive. AT FIRST! MWAHAHAHAHA!

CommanderSheppard

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Xerious — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:30:11 MST

this just in, xboxfamily reports that it heard in the bathroom at ces that soon to be former microsoft chair bill gates has paid off konami for a lump some of 100 million billion dollars for rights to mgs4. this is seriously not a rumor, states founder and chief fanboy, ac freeze.

Xerious

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

dv8godd — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:34:24 MST

@champ24: Exactly.

"Rumors bad, fanboys lame, hulk smash!!"

dv8godd

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

-Sigil- — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:29:00 MST

Sony must have hitten rock bottom to be touting there 'last gen tech' as a selling point for buying there games. I mean they wrote it off pretty much a year ago. Oh well just shows they've changed from the beating they got.

@ Nekoincardine: Where the hell do you get your info from, fanboy weekly? They already said MGS4 could be done on the 360 so why would it need reinventing. Simply put the space is not a problem either, a slight improvement on the compression technology and it could be done on 2 or 3 discs, Lost oddyssey is much bigger than MGS4 as it's a huge RPG not just a stealth shooter and it has tons of CGI clips and takes 4 discs not 6. I lol at your 6 disc lie but it's obviously just exageration to try and make the PS3 sound good. Manufacturing costs? It costs tons more to make a game than manufacture it so for porting and manufacturing a game to a console with a much bigger install base the profit increase would be much greater than leaving it on the PS3 where games like R&C sell around 200,000.

-Sigil-

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Renoistic — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:11:51 MST

@devilhunterx: I'm talking about the emotion chip. Not half-assed emulation.

Renoistic

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Patient — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:32:17 MST

But the word "Exclusive" has the letter "X" in it!
Official! Its coming out for the XB360. /rolleyes.

Can't wait to see this thing on my new Panny 42".

Patient

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Pound my tom-tom — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:11:09 MST

i seriously just think they aren't worried too much about games as CES since it's not really a game showing thing. GDC and weak E3, TGS is where the gaming annoucements should be. And Sony's other parts pimp out all it can at CES which is why they showed all those HD camcorders, walkmans, OLED screens and such

Pound my tom-tom

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Nekoincardine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:07:56 MST

My new prediction: Fuck the 360, if MGS4 leaves the PS3, it will either be a total reimagination preserving only the story for the Wii (after all, that's most of the reason for the game), or it'll hit the PC. Just to double the nads-kick, Windows XP.
Maybe Linux, ironically that could be easier since the PS3 runs off of Linux-like elements I think (and uses Linux optionally in fact).

This honestly makes a LOT more sense for one very simple reason: Space. You can shove the game on 6 DVDs plus a seventh play disc, and it'd be perfectly fine with the hard drive. Hell, throw it on Steam at an $20-for-bandwidth premium, people would STILL eat it up!

Now, look at the 360. DVD. Good format, MOST games aren't going to need more honestly... Too bad Metal Gear has not been 'most games', well, EVER. This is a game concepted to take advantage of one system's limitations, and taking advantage of higher limitations for space on the PS3 would mean a six-disc 360 version. Sheer manufacturing costs would make dropping exclusitivity significantly less desirable, unless you dropped the jaw-dropping graphics that are one major selling point.

Actually, there is one other solution if Konami REALLY wanted to toss it to the 360. Release Metal Gear Solid 4 on the X-Box 360... As an 80GB (or 120GB I don't care) hard drive. Not even a play disc, it just registers as a ludicrously large X-Box Live Arcade game.

Just some idle speculation, though.

Nekoincardine

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

darkroomdemons.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:59:52 MST

I just picked up one of these here ps3 whizbangs after being a diehard 360 user and I gotta say...its awfully purty!

That being said, MGS4 will confuse our fingers and blow our minds. If you can afford it, great. If not, go play Halo3.

Me? I'm gonna let more dust cake on my Wii while I play Drake's Fortune.

darkroomdemons.com

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Soldrak — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:30:33 MST

Kojima is Japanese, old-school Japanese not the younger 'we are the world' types. And the old-school Japanese are extremely nationalistic, almost bordering on the racist, so it would not surprise me in the least that he would do everything in his power to keep the title away from the American Box 360.

Soldrak

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Darien_Shields — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:10:29 MST

It'll only be settled when MGS5 is out and we're arguing about that instead. Well, that or they make it available on another console first, whichever happens first.

Darien_Shields

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

baked ham — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:48:14 MST

@SnakeCL: Good points, all around.

baked ham

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

SnakeCL — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:41:07 MST

Another problem with the 360 rumor is that this game was never designed to be multiplatform from the start. It uses the SPE's heavily, and its going to be a nightmare to try and massage a heavily specialized custom engine into working for another platform without sacrificing a lot.

In addition, storage is the other factor I'm seeing.Kojima felt that a 50gig BD-DVD might not be enough for the game, and actually wished the discs were bigger. That means a 7-DVD disc set at least, with the possibility of more if resources need to be recycled from disc to disc. (On a PS3, you could simply have Snake's character model data and textures stored, and recall it no matter where you are, but you would need that same data 7-times over, once on each disc, for the 360 version.)

This begs the question, just how open is the game itself? If it features essentially entire cities to sneak in, sans loading, it just might not be possible to implement the game using a disc-swap technique, in very much the same way GTA would suffer.

SnakeCL

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Allfather Black — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:38:17 MST

Keep in mind that "eclusive" games have eventually come out multi-platform before.

Shit, I believe one of those games even shared a similar acronym for a title...

Allfather Black

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

OT79 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:31:38 MST

@fecalchaos: ha ha ha,you really make my night,you´re a funny person,even MGS4 is for PS3,it does n´t care who have sex with who analogy.

OT79

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

baked ham — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:29:35 MST

"I honestly believe that MGS has long since been in development for the 360"

Seriously?

How about reading this quote from Konami: "For the record, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a PlayStation 3 exclusive and there are no plans to develop an Xbox 360 version of the game." [kotaku.com]

And don't give me this loophole bullshit that "Oh, well they said MGS4: Guns of the Patriots, not MGS4: Substantial Edition" or whatever you think the "expanded release" will be called if & when it comes out. Stop claiming that that's confirmation in your twisted logic that an expanded "director's cut" version of the game that's not technically called "Guns of the Patriots" is already in development for the 360. You're just wishfully thinking.

baked ham

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

SnakeCL — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:24:45 MST

Something to note, Sony is doing the MGS movie.

While I believe Sony doesn't "buy" exclusives outright, there's more than one way to get the job done. Offering a discount in movie distribution, for instance...

SnakeCL

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

fecalchaos — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:20:10 MST

All this exclusivity nonsense with MGS. Here's how I see it:

Anybody remember a certain White House scandal in which a certain president was accused of being on the recieving end of a certain sexual act? Sure, he made his term famous by saying he didn't "have sex" with that woman, but the reality was that he did. He just found loopholes in the English language ambigious enough to sweat it out.
Sony's doing the same thing. I honestly believe that MGS has long since been in development for the 360. We're being told that it's exclusive, because it is--but in parenthesis ("...but I did recieve a BJ"), it's a timed exclusive, or the 360 version will be different, etc etc.

It's all in the wording people.

fecalchaos

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

baked ham — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:18:25 MST

@stranger: He probably doesn't really care what the American Xbox 360 fans have to say, with all the replenishment of this silly "rumor." I don't think there are too many Xbox 360 fans in Japan, so most of the vocal demand for a 360 port is coming from America. I just get the feeling that Kojima-san doesn't listen to or care much about the opinions of Americans. And that's appropriate. It makes sense. I could be wrong, but that's just my guess as to why he doesn't weigh on this.

Next, I'd like to point out that Konami has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 4 is NOT in development for the Xbox 360.

Third, I'd like to say that if Konami is allowing the vague-ness to permeate about this, it could merely be because they don't want to alienate their core audience by saying it is completely 100% PS3 exclusive, and then that puts them in a position where they are forced to burn a bridge: either the option of porting to Xbox 360 later on down the road goes out the window, or what's more likely is that they back down on that exclusivity word and piss off their loyal fans who can then claim that they lied, or some other such bull crap.

I think the entire issue is moot and quite frankly it'd be nice if people would just let it go. The game will be available for Playstation 3 this year, and I'm confident that millions of us will be enjoying it. That's all that matters. Whether it comes out for 360 down the road is inconsequential, because it won't be in 2008, a (most likely) majority of us who are interested will have already played it, because more people who didn't get the chance to play it will get that wonderful opportunity (and that's a g.o.o.d. thing!), and finally, if it comes out THEN IT'S OUT. And we can stop speculating, because we shall KNOW. So really, it's quite pointless. Because if it doesn't come out, then... we shall never know whether it will come out. This garbage will permeate into eternity.

Unless of course all the people out there who refuse to accept that buying a Playstation 3 is a good investment and will provide you with plenty of awesome gaming opportunities (fact!), and want to stick with just one system (that's okay, too... they're all good choices in their own right, and some people don't want to spend all their cash on gaming), then ... you know ... keep yelling and annoying everybody and maybe all that bitching will pay off. But I hope it doesn't, because I have don't like to see irrational behavior benefit anyone.

baked ham

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Doshu — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:47:21 MST

@Doshu: Err, meant to say: "Other PS3 exclusives have proven that millions can be sold".

Doshu

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Doshu — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:46:40 MST

Sony have said MGS4 is a PS3 exclusive.
Konami have said MGS4 is a PS3 exclusive.
Microsoft have said they're not getting it for their own console.
The only previous MG game released on a Microsoft console tanked.
PS3 sales are in line with 360s (when you align the launches)
Other PS3 exclusives have proven that millions.

If you want to play MGS4, buy a PS3.

Doshu

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

champ24 vamp_24(psn) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:04:50 MST

@dv8godd: LOL, I'll do your last post for you:

"Irish, you write good, talk for me."

champ24 vamp_24(psn)

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

dv8godd — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:59:05 MST

@TheIrishNinja (PSN), IrishNinja2099 (XBL): I prefer your synopsis, honestly. You managed to sum up in a few words what I endlessly danced around.

I should have you translate all my thoughts into their basest essence. :)

dv8godd

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TheBoxNinja — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:51:07 MST

Murderous rampage anyone? Hrm? Is it just me that is thinking: MGS4 only for the PS3 = murder everyone who owns a PS3? That way they will be FORCED to make it exclusively for the 360 :D. YAY!...

I'm not crazy...

TheBoxNinja

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

blackadvent — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:44:34 MST

The rumor will never die. Sorry, but no amount of saying so otherwise will convince the anti-Sony fanboys.

blackadvent

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Hammertime — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:33:12 MST

@Inhert: that's because Resident Evil started on Playstation and RE fans were settled on the PS2...there were Millions (and The Rock says Millions) of RE fans with PS2s by the time Capcom stabbed them in their backs. it's pretty much the same thing with with Metal Gear Solid for playstation fans. I should know since I still have MGS (and VR missions), MGS2 (and substance for PS2), MGS3 (and subsistence for PS2), and MGS PO for PSP, bring on MGS4.

Hammertime

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

champ24 vamp_24(psn) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:25:57 MST

Sorry for the DP, but I forgot to include the fact that the PS3 has stayed on pace with the 360 despite being "overpriced" and having "no games". I wonder what's gonna happen now that the big games are close to release and the price is reasonable?

champ24 vamp_24(psn)

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Hammertime — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:25:39 MST

@stranger: Yes, on an issue of Game Informer. He said MGS4 will never be developed on any other system other than the PS3.

Hammertime

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

champ24 vamp_24(psn) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:21:52 MST

Alright, enough of this "PS3 isn't selling lololololololololol" BS. If you align the launches of the 360 and PS3 you'll see that the sales for both systems are almost identical, so yeah STFU with that.

champ24 vamp_24(psn)

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Hammertime — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:19:56 MST

MGS was released for PS1. it was exclusive until Nintendo was on its knees begging Kojima to make an MGS game on the gamecube. Kojima was making Snake Eater at the time. so they make Silicon Knights to remake MGS which was released in 2004 (6 years after the original). MGS2: substance was released on PS2 and Xbox(the Xbox version tanked). then MGS3 on PS2 then a year later, MGS3:subsistence only on the PS2. can't wait for MGS4.

Hammertime

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Vidril — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:19:51 MST

FUCK YEAH!

lol I love how poeple are STILL trying to fight this.

Vidril

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

frygar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:13:05 MST

@sing4england: I really want you to think about this. I want you to think _hard_: If you have a console that's sold upwards of 10 million units in its first year, one that is using the now de-facto standard for high definition optical media, does that console truly need "saving?"

frygar

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Islandkiwi — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:11:16 MST

Wow...really? Because I heard somewhere that this game was coming to the 360...hasn't anyone told Sony?

Islandkiwi

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

sing4england — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:59:29 MST

When they see they only sell enough to buy a can of pringles and soda, then you will see the version for 360 :P.... Seriously the PS3 hasn't moved out yet from its less than stellar selling position, and while MGS4 will attract some potential buyers this won't be enough to give the extra umpfh to the sales of the console.

If the PS3 had the leadership position that the PS2 had it wouldn't be a brainer to release it as an exclusive... but being that the PS3 is not even the shadow of the PS2 in sales then it is stupid... Capcom was intelligent enough to release Devil May Cry 4 to the 360.

This said I don't have any preference between the current next gen consoles, but it is laughable to think that MGS4 will save the PS3.

sing4england

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

GorbyGipper — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:58:19 MST

@stranger:

Maybe they're leaving the door cracked...who knows. We're not privy to the dealings of these companies.

I do recall, about a year or two back, Kojima mentioned that MGS is a Sony franchise and that he was either working on, going to work on, or wanted to work on Wii and 360 titles. If I recall correctly, he said that they'd be other universes, though...not the Metal Gear universe.

Just stale food for thought.

GorbyGipper

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

GorbyGipper — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:53:07 MST

@sir_blazeAlot:

"Well this ought to shut up all the crazies spreading rumors of the game coming to their shittybox360. I still laugh every time I read someone who has hope for it....god dayum be reasonable people."

I'm not sure whether to laugh or feel sorry for people with this mentality. I guess I pitty you...in some small way.

GorbyGipper

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

GorbyGipper — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:50:55 MST

@Communist_Gamer:

"Am i the only one who thought if Mario Galaxy was on the classic controller it wouldnt have made much difference?"

I love the Wii, but yeah, outside of some tacked on (though somehow whimsical feeling) waggle controls, it could be done on other platforms, mostly. Some of the areas were made for the Wiimote, but the core game could have felt better on a single two-handed controller.

GorbyGipper

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

GorbyGipper — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:47:27 MST

@Communist_Gamer:

Or I guess, whatever Sony's paying is more than potential 360 revenue minus porting costs...which I'd assume is substantial.

Maybe Capcom doesn't think it'll sell that big in the west anyhow? While I really don't care about the console wars (competition is good), it just seems like an odd business call unless Sony is paying Konami some serious cash for exclusivity...unless this is another Assassin's Creed exclusive.

Who knows. I still find all the rumors to be good, fun speculation.

GorbyGipper

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TheIrishNinja — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:41:24 MST

@latinogamer: wow, youre talking for an awful lotta people there. are you from the "weve got splinter cell" school of thought?

@K-OSS: that's awful, youre missing out on the game itself.

@giovonti: VF5 and MGS4 look like staunchly different games, not sure if that analogy holds.

@D00mM4r1n3: yeah, that sure worked out well, too. i see what you did there.

@ReginaldTheSeventySecond: thank you, but its all DV8 i assure you.

TheIrishNinja

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

devilhunterx — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:31:36 MST

@Renoistic: they did. it was called a 60gb PS3.

devilhunterx

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

GOD — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:30:17 MST

@Adam In Texas: Kojima's auntie's uncle's dog's mate's pet salamander who was once stroked by the entire Konami board of directors told me that the room smelt like they were talking about putting it on the 360... There you have it! more fuel for the fire! DROP IT!

GOD

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

lightswitchsam — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:25:39 MST

as someone who owns both platforms and 95% of the time will choose the 360 version of a game over PS3, i'll absolutely be picking up MGS4 on sony's console. why? well, irrespective of any possible future ports the game has undeniably been developed with PS3 as the lead platform for a few years now, and given the quality of metal gear ports in the past i'm inclined to believe that what looks like the most impressive PS3 game by far might not necessarily translate so well to 360. furthermore, i'm used to the playstation control scheme for metal gear, and even if the game is ported to 360 it's not coming out for a long, long time.

so yeah! in my book PS3 owners are pretty much guaranteed the better deal with this game, regardless of whether or not it's exclusive forever (i think it'll come out on something else eventually, for the record). it's nothing to worry about if you only own a PS3 (the 360 is certainly never getting UNCHARTED: DRAKE'S FORTUNE, which i love like a mother does a child) and nothing worth even thinking about if you just have a 360 (don't you have enough games to be playing?!).

both systems are worth buying, so if you want to play metal gear solid 4 you should buy a sony playstation 3. that's kindof the bottom line.

lightswitchsam

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

stranger — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:09:18 MST

Here's a thought:

Have Hideo Kojima publicly announce that Metal Gear Solid 4 will never come to the xbox 360 platform in any way, shape or form. If there isn't a 360 version in the works, if it really is a PS3 exclusive, why hasn't the MGS Man himself put these rumors to bed once and for all???

They're being too cagey with their PR speak. Why dance around the subject if you've got nothing to hide???

stranger

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Akmed — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:04:52 MST

in all honesty, what's the big deal about MGS? i guess i just plain suck at stealth games. always have. i got MGS PO for PSP. i'm lost lol...

Akmed

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

stranger — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:04:44 MST

"Exclusive title for the Playstation 3"

Exclusive title. Not exclusive release, or exclusive game... exclusive title.

I'm still saying MGS4: "Insert different subtitle here" has been in development for the 360 for more than a year.

stranger

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Akmed — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:02:59 MST

@sascha23:

it was on Kotaku website, it said PS3 gets mini islands whearas 360 gets extended mini-episodes. something like that. if i DID have a 360, i'd get both because it's that awesome.

@savemeaquaman:

but still no MGS3. but could be on 360 (keep dreaming...)

Akmed

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

ReginaldTheSeventySecond — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:00:29 MST

@TheIrishNinja (PSN), IrishNinja2099 (XBL): That statement sums up the entire situation of the exclusivity crap and bickering that ensues. Whether you or DV8GODD came up with it, it deserves a nomination for a week in comments.

ReginaldTheSeventySecond

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

burningranger01 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:54:07 MST

@AGiES: that is exactly what i was thinking..funny how they word things.
im sure if it rly was exlusive, konomi would come out and flat out say it in front of the people who need to hear it.

burningranger01

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

DCPlayaPride — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:45:46 MST

AS I say with all these MGS Threads.......

MGS4!!!MGS4!!!MGS4!!!MGS4!!!!

It's not about the exclutivity(not a word but sounds good) of MGS4, it's about the game you're getting, and this game looks DAMN INCREDIBLE!!!!

DCPlayaPride

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

ManjiKengo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:44:42 MST

@matizzy:

How many games do you own for your ps3?

ManjiKengo

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Soldrak — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:42:07 MST

This should be subtitled like this instead...

'We R Support Our Owns!'

Soldrak

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

ManjiKengo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:38:16 MST

@Wolf_Dog:

Yeah, how WRONG you are. I WONT buy a ps3 for the game, but I am VERY interested in playing it even though they rehash foxhound from mgs.

ManjiKengo

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

NoBullet — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:37:29 MST

I remember when sony did the same thing for Assassins Creed.

NoBullet

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Weasel3689 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:34:48 MST

@Chew13acca:
dualshock 3 does have motion sensitivity. If you look on the controller it says dualshock 3 and beneath it SIXAXIS. Anyway it will be better on PS3 much like DMC4 which will be because they were designed around the original SIXAXIS and in fact some subtle but key actions require motion sensitivity like ratchet which uses it for falling sequences and the tornado launcher control. Even if MGS4 does become multiplatform (unlikely) it will be far better on ps3 because from the beginning the game was designed with all the advantages and disadvantages of PS3 in mind and porting would cause slight degradation in quality. HL2 for example always seems worse on any console because many sequences (especially the driving ones) are built around the PC and even with optimization for 360 and ps3 they both feel inferior to PC.

Weasel3689

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

robinhood1013 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:32:01 MST

HALO34360OMGFG!!!

robinhood1013

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Weasel3689 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:26:23 MST

although they most likely will make some sort of "subsistence" thing, I don't think it will be in the form of another whole ps3 game (and even less likely a 360 port). Most likely there will be some sort of subsistence-esque DLC that adds stuff. Man that would be awesome if kojima and konami made continuous dlc add on to MGS4 story a la HL2 *drools*. Anyway I think the 360 port rumor IS SMASHED into tine pieces, raped, burnt, defecated upon, burnt again, and dropped into a bottomless pit. Unfortunately 360 fanboys tend to live in these pits and will find some way to resurrect this long corpsed rumor (flamewar initiated).

Weasel3689

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

mooseyfate — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:20:57 MST

Hrrrm...... what kind of exclusive?

mooseyfate

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

D00mM4r1n3 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:18:01 MST

From: [xbox.gamespy.com]

"Unfortunately for Xbox owners, however, there was no love from Konami. MGS2 was a PS2 exclusive, and the possibility of it coming to another platform was grim. Well, as the saying goes, "good things come to those who wait," and Solid Snake has finally arrived on the Xbox."

D00mM4r1n3

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Chew13acca — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:16:02 MST

It might just be me, but I'm pretty sure the Dualshock3 has no motion sensitivity. Just rumble, which would be the only difference (really) between a 360 and a dualshock controller.

It just seems to me that as time goes on they keep "trying" to drop hints about 360 support.

Chew13acca

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Huxle — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:15:27 MST

It seems like the Suxbox 360 fanboys are sooo desperate for MGS4. Don't those guys have any good games for their own console? I guess not...

Huxle

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

giovonti — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:08:57 MST

@skullivan: I agree there. Though if it did come out on the 360 sometime down the line, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't run just fine. VF5 was made for PS3 and it rocks on 360 too.

giovonti

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

RedFive — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:06:34 MST

"Metal Gear Solid 4" will be exclusive, sure, but "Metal Gear Solid 4: Subtitle" will most likely be making an appearance on Xbox 360. :)

RedFive

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

skullivan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:01:34 MST

The question has never been, *is* MGS4 exclusive, it's whether it'll *stay* exclusive.

The chances of MGS4 NOT coming to 360 in some form are pretty slim. Anyone who says the matter is settled simply because Konami and Sony say so haven't paid attention to the history of exclusives.

I have a PS3 and think it'll be a better game on PS3 regardless of whether or not a 360 version makes it out or not but there's just not enough of a PS3 installed base for Konami to make their money back on it.

skullivan

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

latinogamer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:00:45 MST

360 owners wont even miss it.

latinogamer

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

matizzy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:58:36 MST

wtf, sony is great on games, why do ppl keep saying that ps3 has no games, well at least hinting at it

matizzy

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Gladman — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:57:40 MST

@timotei360: As is the norm

Gladman

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

dv8godd — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:53:32 MST

@Witzbold: What about THIS time, hammer-lord?

dv8godd

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Witzbold — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:52:10 MST

@ectogamut: You do realize that the last time somebody pulled a stunt like that they got banned.

Witzbold

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

floppylobster — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:52:05 MST

@ectogamut: You wam tu believe?

floppylobster

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

ectogamut — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:45:32 MST

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ectogamut

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

floppylobster — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:39:12 MST

That settles it for me. No MGS4 for Xbox 360.

But by the time this finally comes out the Xbox 1080 might be in with a chance.

floppylobster

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

kingclip — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:35:59 MST

This thread is the total and complete opposite of WIN.

Just sad, really.

kingclip

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

baked ham — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:34:00 MST

@goldwings: I didn't even like the 360 version of Lost Planet. Boring and not well designed and ... uh ... yeah, couldn't get into it.

baked ham

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Jabbertrack — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:31:14 MST

well 1080p was once a PS3 exclusive too!

Jabbertrack

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Renoistic — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:30:51 MST

It makes no difference to me really. I own neither a PS3 nor a 360, nor a HD-TV, nor a surround sound system. And I won't play MGS4 until I have 3 of those things. So I don't really care if the game gets delayed a year or longer, again - hahaha. I'm also waiting for SONY to release a PS3 with PS2 compatibility in Europe. Bastards.

Renoistic

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Ambitious009 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:29:18 MST

@sir_blazeAlot: Don't be a console basher troll.

Ambitious009

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

goldwings — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:26:35 MST

still waiting for one of the Kojima production's janitor to say MGS4 for the 360!
It is coming people, but by the time it comes out, most people won't care. Only the fanboys do. Remember when Oblivion came out for the PS3? I certainly didn't give a crap, but PS3 fans did apparently. Now that Lost planet is coming up, I'll laugh at those that say it matters (although LP looks horrid on the PS3 to begin)

goldwings

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

mustang — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:26:31 MST

If Kojima makes through use of blu-ray space to cram so much content and quality into the game(considering the game quality per se are very likely to be outstanding by looking at Kojima's history) instead of using it to make up for Ps3 shortcommings than we are ready for a 'real' next-gen multi-million game. I hope they don't port it and cripple it.

mustang

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

baked ham — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:25:05 MST

OK everyone, you're about to witness attempt #1 at shooting this fucker dead:

METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS - If you want to play this badass awesome game while it's still new and fresh, you will need a Playstation 3. If you don't want to do that, then sit quietly and wait and see for your damn self if it comes out for the 360. We all know it'll be old-hat by the time it does, if it does, so stop with all the bull.

baked ham

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Sugarbloodsuckers — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:25:01 MST

Kotaku enjoys working the fanboys into a tizzy about MGS4.

Sugarbloodsuckers

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

sir_blazeAlot — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:22:09 MST

Well this ought to shut up all the crazies spreading rumors of the game coming to their shittybox360. I still laugh every time I read someone who has hope for it....god dayum be reasonable people.

sir_blazeAlot

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

frygar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:21:21 MST

@Seoulfood: Warner joined the BDA on their own accord. If the BDA actually paid out a transaction of that magnitude, it would be all over the news.

frygar

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Communist_Gamer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:19:45 MST

@TemplaerDude:

Ah the same old controller which steals everything good from the 360 controllers but fails to implement it well (PS button, much?) and then pikeys a bit of the Wiis only to find on almost every game its a pointless gimmick. Bit like the Wii damnit.

Am i the only one who thought if Mario Galaxy was on the classic controller it wouldnt have made much difference?

Communist_Gamer

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

frygar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:19:07 MST

I agree, we are spending more time pissing and moaning about the exclusivity of this game and not how awesome it's going to be. Personally, I think this is just MS' and the fanboys' way of shitting in Sony's punchbowl, i.e., "if we can't have it, then we're just going to spread a bunch of worthless rumors about it and confuse the hell out of everyone." This just leads to disappointed people. Frankly, even if Jesus Christ were to descend riding an 80's styled neon maned unicorn, with Def Leppard blaring from on high and declare MGS4 exclusive to the PS3, this rumor would still yet live.

On the flipside, this game looks amazing, and I can't wait to get it... for my PS3.

frygar

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TemplaerDude — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:18:01 MST

ahh the new old dualshock.

TemplaerDude

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Nirolak — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:17:36 MST

@SaintAnima: Yeah I was actually wondering how many of the characters we'll be actually be able to play as too. Raiden would definitely make an interesting character but I'm not convinced he'll be playable simply because Kojima said you could play the entire game in first person and playing Raiden that way would be rather awkward. However melee with a first person view has worked out fairly well in a few cases so it's quite possible, especially if Kojima really doesn't care about the first person mode since honestly how many people are going to play the game like that.

Nirolak

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Buttah — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:17:26 MST

@Renoistic: @Communist_Gamer:

I think it would be different if Konami thought they had a dedicated fanbase in Xbox owners like they do in Playstation owners. As mush as we'd liked to think it, internet trolls and fanboys arguming on message boards won't translate into pure sales. You look at the sales of MGS:Twin Snakes and MGS2: Substance for the GC and Xbox respectively and they're nowhere near those of their Playstation counterparts. Plus, with dev costs already high, imagine having to sink in more money and resources to develop a 360 version. Konami probably took a hard look at the situation and asked "Is it worth it"

Buttah

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

thejakeman has died of dysentry — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:14:49 MST

hee hee, people getting worked up about people getting worked up about this. i don't even care, i've only played one metal gear. the twin snakes on the GC. because i'm a sucker for remakes. Remake JFG!

thejakeman has died of dysentry

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

K-OSS — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:12:41 MST

I'll just wait a couple of weeks for a fan made DVD of all the cut scenes in MGS4 to appear on eBay. That covers 95% of the games content right there.

Cheap Gamers <3 Really Frickin Long Cut Scenes.

K-OSS

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Ambitious009 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:12:03 MST

Sorry to break it to you guys that still have the dream of it going to the 360, but I, am pretty sure Konami made profit from this game already, and Konami prob. knows this game will convert many people to the ps3, and the argument saying that the ps3 is too expensive won't work anymore, because it's not a $600 console anymore, and I wouldn't be suprised if there was another price cut for the ps3 when this game is released, hell sony will prob. even have a bundle pack for this game because it is the cash cow and people are going to buy the system for this game

Ambitious009

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Wolf_Dog — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:10:06 MST

@todde7:

Welcome to the party Victor!!!!!

But your a little late, a few months late, try again next generation ;)

Wolf_Dog

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

FP Shindokie — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:09:45 MST

@Maldron:

damn and knowledge ability

FP Shindokie

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

FP_slomo788 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:08:45 MST

Yesterday I was checking out one of the gameplay videos from GDC and one of my buddies and I were wondering how come no one thought of implementing the ability for you to shoot while on your back, throw grenades behind you etc before MGS4. Gotta love this generation. So many ideas, so many standards are being put... The game is going to be incredible btw.

Also, I'm going give you the uncounterable proof that this game is PS3 only: the robot thingy has CELL, and Snake controls it with a SIXAXIS (is it Dualshock now?)!

FP_slomo788

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

todde7 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:49 MST

Holy Crap! Supporting the NEW DualShock controller? OMG!!! A controller that rumbles? Impossible! Oh wait this is DualShock 3, that must mean it just rumbles that much more than DualShock 2 and totally owns DualShock 1. I'm sorry but Sony, you are a sad piece of work.

todde7

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Maldron — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:16 MST

@Inhert: If you add "0Li0Li0," yes. But not in the way you initially asked.

Maldron

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Maldron — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:05:36 MST

@TheIrishNinja: You can try, but my life is wasted and my trivia vast.

THINK FAST! *snowball*

Maldron

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Inhert — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:05:31 MST

As it has been said a million times before, it's going to be like what happened to Resident Evil 4 and Viewtiful Joe. They were released exclusively for GameCube, but the sales won't be as spectacular as they expected so there will be a port to a console with a larger install base.

If I add 'lololol' will I get you more worked up about my post?

Inhert

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

rojo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:02:49 MST

then i hope its over that 360 shit talkin

rojo

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Gagamus — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:02:30 MST

The DLC that the 360 version is getting is the only exclusive content so dont stress sascha. As for this exclusivity being touted, I'm fairly confident in taking Sony and Konami's word on this. Sony really messed up in the run up to launch and in securing exclusives but quite frankly, they screwed their head back on just in time to get the common sense that MGS 4 absolutely cannot ever go to the 360. It's pretty much the last straw firewall, along with Final Fantasy. I just hope MGS 4 manages to come out this year. I'm scared it will get delayed yet again.

Gagamus

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Communist_Gamer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:01:06 MST

Yes PS3 has almost certainly got it exclusively.

But things don't add up, very few games can make enough money to justify the exclusivetivity and the way the picture above is written allows it to be interpreted in multiple ways.

I just think Konami would be shooting themselves in the foot not porting it to a console which would handle it as well and with a larger console base.

But whatever Sony pay, its more than M$...

Communist_Gamer

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Renoistic — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:00:57 MST

I wonder why the XBOX never got MGS3? Seems strange they only released MGS2 on the platform. Perhaps it was a (failed) experiment? MGS1 and 2 were released on PC, but MGS3 wasn't. It wouldn't surprise me at all if MGS4 actually is PS3 exclusive (even the inevitable SUBSISTENCE release).

Renoistic

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Seoulfood — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:00:18 MST

I think what's important is that Sony recognizes that this will be the biggest game on the PS3 this year so they're probably taking the appropriate actions to keep it exclusive. They know this is where the money is.

In terms of Sony not claiming they buy exclusivity, I'm pretty sure this is no longer(never was?) the case. I mean, didn't they buy Warner exclusivity? How is a this much different from games. It's really the smart thing for Sony to do if they're aiming for PS3 profit this year.

Seoulfood

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Saint Anima — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:59:44 MST

Okay people, rumor shouldn't be going on anymore.

Now, let's talk about the actual game.

Like, you think we'll play with Raiden as he fights Vamp? Or will the South America location be filled with greenery to allow a Snake Eater kind of feel?

You know, those kind of questions.

The real shit.

Saint Anima

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TitillatedOcelot — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:59:03 MST

@Witzbold: Nah, 150 tops. The "credible" rumours that it's coming to the 360 are what make for 300 + posts. Sony restating again for the last time today that it is still exclusive just doesn't seem to be as interesting to people.

TitillatedOcelot

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Buttah — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:57:56 MST

@TheIrishNinja (PSN), IrishNinja2099 (XBL):

I feel you there. Exactly what I said in the poll that Mark started about believing MGS4's exclusivity:

[kotaku.com]
You know what's really sad? That while everyone is bitching and crying about the game being exclusive or not, no one is talking about how awesome this game will be. It will probably be one of the best games ever made and it's being totally lost because the media and the fanboys refuse to stop being tards and let this rumor die. Please just let it die so we can actually get back to discussing the actual game instead of it's exclusivity. In all honesty, this rumor stuff was ridiculous a year ago. Now it's just sad. Real sad.

Still, I'm betting there will be more of these in the future so it's probably best to just leave it all alone. There's no use in saying the same thing over and over again to people who obviously care nothing about the game itself and just want to be part of another internet flame war.

Buttah

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TheIrishNinja — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:57:30 MST

@Maldron: i must remember to close off all joke potential from hackery in the future.

TheIrishNinja

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

sascha23 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:56:54 MST

@timotei360: Yes, but that whole Capcom and Nintendo relationship for the Gamecube was bizarre. Ninteno was known for making younger generation games and here comes Konami promising to release RE games exclusively for a console that flopped.

The PS3 is already at 9 million units and that number will be closer to 13 million when MGS4 hits. They won't have any issues moving systems and games.

Let's just see.

sascha23

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

creid — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:55:44 MST

When are downloadable albums coming out? Oh wait, wrong comment I've read a million times. I mean, "so when's MGS4 coming to 360?"

creid

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Maldron — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:54:36 MST

@TheIrishNinja: This is Sparta?

Maldron

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

sascha23 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:54:20 MST

@ShirtGuyDom: I recommend you find better things to do with your time than making up imaginary "unnamed sources" and trying to get attention on a blog site's forum.

sascha23

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

timotei360 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:53:50 MST

@Buttah: I'll be honest with you. I don't own a PS3 OR a 360, I have no stake in this at all. I'm just going by recent exclusivity trends and I sincerely doubt that PS3 alone is going to get them their million seller mark. To make up for massive financial loss they'll have to dumb it down and port it to 360 and add new content to justify a second purchase for early adopters. The whole scenario reeks of RE4's exclusivity with Gamecube. If I recall correctly Capcom promised GC exclusivity too, and look where that went.

@Akmed: By this logic all Final Fantasy games should be Nintendo exclusive since the first one was on the NES, and therefore all sequels should be on its successors.

timotei360

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

sascha23 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:53:07 MST

@Akmed: Agreed. But, what is the exclusive content on GTA4 for PS3? I'm buying the PS3 version, but I wasn't aware of any exclusive stuff for it. Just the two DLC episodes that M$ paid for.

sascha23

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

gamerFTW1200 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:51:55 MST

@Wolf_Dog:

>_> I already had a PS3 but my mom gave it back after I thre my contoller on the ground lol........ I also have a 360 with me but I would never want to see this on anything microsoft only sony products lol I will just have to save up for a new one... ._.

gamerFTW1200

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

sascha23 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:51:32 MST

Kotaku is helping the MGS4 hype machine. I'm sure Sony and Konami are loving the press either way. :)

sascha23

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Mr.SithNinja — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:48:49 MST

@SHIRTGUYDOM

Well, I just heard from a very reliable source inside reality (who will remain unnamed) that you are off your meds.

Mr.SithNinja

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

PissedPS3Fan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:46:55 MST

Sweet. More PS3 games need to support 1080p. I mean that's the whole freakin reason I bought a Full-HD TV!

I don't care about which console this comes out on. It will more than likely be a great game.

PissedPS3Fan

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Highlander Wolf — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:46:46 MST

To 1080p, or not to 1080p... that is the question... MGS4HDFTW*drool*

Highlander Wolf

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

savemeaquaman — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:46:32 MST

@Akmed: Xbox had MGS2 and it never got MGS1, so your point goes out the window.

I'll probably get a PS3 later this year, MGS4 is one of the big sellers of the system to me but so is Little Big Planet and God of War 3. If MGS4 does come out for 360 eventually, I'll be pretty pissed.

savemeaquaman

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Akmed — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:44:08 MST

how can they make a sequel (MGS4) to a game system (360) that never had prequels? yeah it's not gonna happen people. rumor is gone.

people probably assume this because of all the things going on nowadays. people don't believe in "exclusive" anymore. hell, GTA IV has exclusive content on BOTH. just different. still not an exclusive.

AGAIN, MGS4 IS PS3 Exclusive!!

Akmed

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TheIrishNinja — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:43:26 MST

@smitty1123: id support this move.

@thejakeman: hopping on the bandwagon since 1989: @PsycheDiver: failure.

@Inhert: ban him.
wait, runna, is that you?

@cybereality: wow, anything can be read into at this point. read the first line.

i promise im gonna try to stop encouraging this shit by replying to any topic not about MGS4's actual gameplay. DV8Godd nailed it on the head last time: far too many kids just want this as a feather in their cap, for sony or MS, and are missing out on the finale of one of gaming's finest series because of what, brand loyalty of which system your mom bought you for christmas? ugh, this is not gaming.

TheIrishNinja

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

ShirtGuyDom — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:43:23 MST

Well, I just heard from a very reliable source from inside Konami (who will remain unnamed) that MGS4 is actually changing hands in terms of exclusivity. He (or she) said that Microsoft paid a huge sum of money to make MGS4 360 exclusive. This is coming straight from a Konami higher-ups mouth. It's not a rumor.

MGS4 360 EXCLUSIVE CONFIRMED. SCOOP.

ShirtGuyDom

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

the-sanguine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:40:45 MST

I would be thrilled to see Xbox 360 users play MGS4. So long as that is not the reason I have to wait to play it on my PS3

the-sanguine

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Mr.SithNinja — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:38:54 MST

From what I understand from interviews that I have read from the devs on the game, the 360 hardware is "incapable of running MGS4". I don't know if they were refering to processing power or the (more likely reason) lack of disc space but I have seen that in more than one place. Yet these dumb rumors keep circulating. Oh well, I guess we will have to wait and see when we get the specs from the final product.

Mr.SithNinja

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Hatchetforce — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:38:23 MST

One other note ph15h, my best friend didn't have a PS3. He had a 360 and a PS2 but wanted a 60GB for B/C. He went to Circuit City and they didn't have any - only 80s and 40s. He asked if they were certain. They checked and a store 3 hours away had 2. He bought it and they shipped it to that store. This was a week ago.

Hatchetforce

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

knoyd_mcbennet — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:38:20 MST

whatever, i won't be surprised if it does hit xbox a year and a half later..look at the pattern konami follows with this shit. they keep it exclusive for a year or so, make you really believe it's a fact, introduce a brand new game in the franchise, then make the previous game non-exclusive to fuck with your head some more and make more bucks. snake eater/subsistence remained on ps2 and never graced the xbox, but if they ever plan on making new metal gears without "solid" in the title, they'll probably be multi-plat. porting GoTP to xbox would be a good idea to "introduce" xboxers to a new take on the future of metal gear. we'll see though.

still getting mine on ps3 once i get the system :P

knoyd_mcbennet

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

mullinsmcd — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:37:34 MST

Well, truthfully, none of the MGS's have been console exclusive but the improved versions on separate consoles never sell as well as the PS version thats released first. Make no mistake, Konami needs money and they have no special respect for Sony that would outdo their need to make their shareholders happy, but on the other hand its been in development for the PS3 from the very beginning and trying to retool it for the 360 might be hard. Either way, I love the series and I will be buying it on the PS3 when it comes out. All of the fanboys on both sides should chill out on the issue.

mullinsmcd

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Wolf_Dog — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:36:17 MST

@Nirolak:

RE4 was the beginning of a new direction in the franchise. Not the long awaited final installment, work of perfection MGS4 will be. (thats just how us MGS fanboys see it anyway)

Wolf_Dog

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Hatchetforce — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:35:24 MST

@ph15h:

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Hatchetforce

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

TinyLightning — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:34:33 MST

Lie Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies LIES

TinyLightning

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Onizuka-GTO — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:34:20 MST

MSG4!! 360 Exclusive! yes? yes?

Onizuka-GTO

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

GorbyGipper — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:31:25 MST

@platinum:

The whole Assassin's Creed thing...wasn't that "PS3 Exclusive" business just that it was being exclusively announced for the PS3? Hell, no one from Ubi would say that there's no 360 version in the works, there were rumors flying that the version at E3 was on a 360 AND the game had already been mentioned or shown in some form at X05 (if I remember right...which I may not).

@Wolf_Dog:
I'd like to check out MGS4, but it's not going to sell me on a system. I'm actually just getting around to Eternal Darkness (it's in my pile) which is one game I REALLY wanted to check out on the Cube.

I just don't think the non-MGS junkies will buy a console to play it. Sure, Konami could get their million or so sales and more over time, but I really don't think any new customers will be heading their way with this title only on the PS3.

I'm not desperate to play it, but I'd enjoy the chance. By not releasing MGS on as many viable platforms as possible (maybe the 360 isn't viable, I don't know how development was handled), Konami is more or less giving up on expanding their customer base.

It's like Halo, now that Bungie is independant. I'd be absolutely shocked if Bungie didn't release the first possible Halo game (I'm sure MS secured first dibs, publishing-wise, on one or two Bungie-developer Halo titles) on all viable platforms.

To discount millions of possible customers in this console cycle just seems boneheaded...unless someone is paying you a metric ****ton for exclusivity. Hell, look at what MS had to pay for GTA4 DLC. There were exclusives all over the place for the 360 before and leading upto the PS3 launch...I don't see MS or Sony getting anything like that again this gen.

GorbyGipper

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Sparx — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:30:40 MST

See this is exactly why I moved here from 1up, because it was liek talking to a wall half the time. They only believe what they wanted to regardless of what was reported. Sadly most of those morons followed me

Sparx

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

smitty1123 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:29:54 MST

Pfff. We all know Metal Gear 4 is going to be the launch title for the Dreamcast 2.

smitty1123

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Buttah — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:29:51 MST

@timotei360:
Quick! Find the closest mirror! Now, repeat everything you just typed while looking in said mirror and see if you can resist the urge to slap yourself. Hard.

Seriously, the only people who ever believed MGS4 was coming to the 360, are the same guys who like to hangout in Gamestop and brag about all the "inside" information they have about the gaming industry. You know, that guy who claims he playtested the PS4...last year.

Buttah

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Dimipapa — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:29:24 MST

For a second I thought the title said, Twisted Metal 4, and I was like, "Twisted Metal sucks", and then I was like, "wouldnt that be Twisted Metal 6 or 7?", and then I was like "Oh It says Metal Gearr Solid 4". True Story!

Dimipapa

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Kenaue — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:26:42 MST

That was at the guy who said it would go tho the 360 in a seperate version later on.

Kenaue

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Inhert — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:26:14 MST

@NotSoCool:

You will never silence our denial!

Inhert

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Kenaue — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:26:14 MST

Keep dreaming.

Kenaue

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

cybereality — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:26:05 MST

No, its the "exclusive" (read: only) title supporting the dual-shock3. Sony, those sneaky bastards. They always leave themselves an out.

cybereality

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

FP_slomo788 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:25:35 MST

*yawns* When is that DS3 coming to the States? I don't want to import it and hear that it's coming during the 2 weeks it will take to come here!

FP_slomo788

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

Nirolak — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:25:15 MST

@Wolf_Dog: Because, as we know, everyone who was interested in RE4 bought a GameCube.

Nirolak

Sony Touts Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Exclusivity At CES

DigitalHero — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:24:18 MST

The image for this article is so lovely. :)

DigitalHero