E3 2007: Metal Gear Solid 4 definitely PlayStation 3 exclusive

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At the Sony E3 Press conference Hideo Kojima confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots would be exclusive to the PlayStation 3. With the PlayStation 3 losing exclusives rapidly speculation has been rife that Konami would bring Guns of the Patriots to the Xbox 360, but Kojima has settled fanboy speculation, at least for now.

Kojima also showed off a new Guns of the Patriots trailer and confirmed the game would be released in early 2008 worldwide. PAL gamers have traditionally had to wait up to six months for the Metal Gear titles to reach our shoes, so we're pleased we won't be trailing behind our US counterparts.

A few small tidbits were also confirmed about Guns of the Patriots. Metal Gear Solid 4 will be the final of the series. The story of Snake will end and Kojima's participation with the Metal Gear series will end after MGS4.

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Jim Dash

4 years ago

Lets hope it ends with a bang. If this game is not reason enough to own a PS3, I don't know what is.

SMASHED

4 years ago

Jim Dash wrote

Lets hope it ends with a bang. If this game is not reason enough to own a PS3, I don't know what is.

LittleBigPlanet

But all pluses are great aswell

diogenes92

4 years ago

I'm so happy that this won't be going to 360, they have stolen alot of our games lately. Lucky we're also getting Unreal Tournament III aswell as Haze...

Gamesta

4 years ago

I bet this news has all the 360 fanboys gathered and crying in unison.I don't like to seem like an asshole, but sucked in all you stupid fanboys.

Thankfully unlike most forums this one is filled with proper gamers who are intelligent and not stupid morons.People in this group like what consoles they like and respect others opinions.

DrTim

4 years ago

"PAL gamers have traditionally had to wait up to six months for the Metal Gear titles to reach our shoes, so we're pleased we won't be trailing behind our US counterparts.
"

Not that really matters anymore with the PS3 region freeness.

Good to hear this news though, I kinda always knew this, but its goos to from the proverbial horses-mouth.

Karai Pantsu

4 years ago

Much like the PSP 'slim' announcement this is more of a 'Well, Duh!' moment - but at least it'll end the rampant speculation. Nice to see that we won't be getting shafted with the release date, too (although as said above the region free makes that somewhat redundant).

rodvcpetrie

4 years ago

Well for those who have a great deal of patience, this development isn't that horrific for X-Boxers, considering that in the future there will be ports made of this game.

Luckily I'm one such person with a great deal of patience.

poweroffarts

4 years ago

Jim Dash wrote

Lets hope it ends with a bang. If this game is not reason enough to own a PS3, I don't know what is.

Final Fantasy XII?

MGS pretty much crap to me, I dont really care about it.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

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Kojima's participation with the Metal Gear series will end after MGS4.

he's said that after every one of the core MGS titles. i'll believe it when i see a core MGS title without his involvement.

this game is the number one reason for me wanting a PS3.
it's not the sole reason, but it is the title calling to me strongest - hell, Portable Ops was the reason i finally got a PSP (with some other titles calling right behind), this will probably be achieve the same thing.

the doag

4 years ago

Its been said before and i'll say it again.

Metal Gear Solid is the reason to own a Playstation 3.

jecht_raiden

4 years ago

rodvcpetrie wrote

hehe............

and to powerof: I place a question mark to your very own "Final Fantasy XII?" i hope you mean Final Fantasy XIII which WILL stay PS3 exclusive.
And you're also quite silly in stating what you said about MGS. It is:
A) evidently, to cool for you
B) you're posting in its section so it must mean a little more than "pretty much crap" to you

poweroffarts

4 years ago

jecht_raiden wrote

and to powerof: I place a question mark to your very own "Final Fantasy XII?" i hope you mean Final Fantasy XIII which WILL stay PS3 exclusive.
And you're also quite silly in stating what you said about MGS. It is:
A) evidently, to cool for you
B) you're posting in its section so it must mean a little more than "pretty much crap" to you

At least have the curtesy to type my full username.

And I have no idea what you think I said. But try reading it again. Look at the quote. I was just answering FFXIII is another reason to buy a PS3 for some people. I dont really understand why you "hoped" for me to agree with your opinion, by the way I do wish it went multiplatform.

And I'm not silly at all, people have different tastes and opinions maybe you should learn that. Just cause you like MGS and I dont anymore, you should curtesy respect my opinion. I think its crap and you think great so be it, it doesnt change anything.

And for your quiz.

C) Curosity, I just curious what people's opinion were. I stumbled on Jim Dash post and posted what another good reason to buy a ps3 console.

LeonJ

4 years ago

Gamesta wrote

Ha, it will be on the 360 within 12 months of the PS3 I promise you. They won't annouce a 360 port after the PS3 game has been released, but there is no way Konami isn't going to port this.

Sony has lost a lot money exlcusives then they would have liked. If they lost this it could have been a nail in their coffin.

donovan515

4 years ago

LeonJ wrote

Gamesta wrote

We shall see

ugh the boot

4 years ago

LeonJ wrote

Sony has lost a lot money exlcusives then they would have liked. If they lost this it could have been a nail in their coffin.

Nail in the coffin? The only reason Microsoft is scrambling around trying to steal Sony exclusives is because the 360 will be dead if they don't. The Ps3 version will always sell....exclusive or not....infact i'd bet the Ps3 version of GTAIV will get more sales regardless of the 360 exclusives.

Sooner of later the Blu-Ray format is going to become essential to get real next-gen quality games (as the levels keeps going up) and pretty soon 360 won't even have the option to get a lot of these games.....so enjoy it while you can...it won't last.

ittekimasu

4 years ago

LeonJ wrote

Gamesta wrote

lol i'll copy this and paste it once you realise after release that it won't see the day of light on the 360.

rodvcpetrie

4 years ago

Stranger things have happened.....Resident Evil was only a GameCube exclusive at one stage. Metal Gear Solid 2 was released on the Xbox.......the holy grail of them is it that Sonic was released on the Nintendo.

Jim Dash

4 years ago

9 Gig versus 25 Gig...Hmm which way shall we go in the future?

While the Final Fantasy series is nother console seller with a masssive following, I personally am not into it and MGS4 would have gotten me a PS3 if I didn't already have one.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

LeonJ wrote

Gamesta wrote

Ha, it will be on the 360 within 12 months of the PS3 I promise you. They won't annouce a 360 port after the PS3 game has been released, but there is no way Konami isn't going to port this.

i'm really not sure - i guess it depends on how much Konami want to keep Kojima happy, afterall, they didn't port MGS3 at his request.

i really think that the control method will be the mitigating factor here. MGS has been a series that are quick to break down the 4th wall with their games, and are very much a company that uses everything they can with their games, so i don't doubt for a minute that there will be some use for the motion control element of the Sixaxis controller - in which case, short of MS releasing their own version of the controller for the X360, there's a good chance the game will be gimped - though whether this is a minor element, or major, i obviously can't say.

it might be that the motion control is used to perform dodge moves - jerk the controller to make Snake perform a roll in the corresponding direction. if then EVERY other element of the controller is used for some function, then it's possible the X360 simply won't be able to replicate all the moves for the game.

i realise this is all speculation - but given Kojima has been quite vocal about not wanting his game ported, i seem to think more that it won't be.

SMASHED

4 years ago

ugh the boot wrote

Sooner of later the Blu-Ray format is going to become essential to get real next-gen quality games (as the levels keeps going up) and pretty soon 360 won't even have the option to get a lot of these games.....so enjoy it while you can...it won't last.

Lol aren't you the hopeful fanboy. Sorry I know you hate that ,but your starting to sound like it. Me being a Nintendo/sega/sony fan to be, I know how easy it is for wars to change so suddenly.
And it will take atleast 4 years for Blu-ray to even come close to DVD's glory, so I think 360 is going to hold up well for a few.

And by then DVD will be so cheap to produce it wouldn't suprise me if 360/wii got exclusives anyway.

Frozencry

4 years ago

LeonJ wrote

Gamesta wrote

Nail in their coffin? If anyone's got a nail in their coffin it's MS. The dead 360's around the world is an omen. After 2007 when the big titles like Halo 3 and such hit, They're going to be left in the dust from the exclusive Sony titles.

And let's not forget, Ueda and Team Ico haven't shown anything yet. Nor has Jaffe and his GoW team.

ugh the boot

4 years ago

@ Obs - Those are very good points actually Obs and they hadn't occurred to me at all.

I also hope they include support for new rumble controllers.

SMASHED wrote

Aren't you the pain in the ass? If it doesn't happen i'll still have my 360 and wii and every other console so it won't make a scrap of difference to me anyways.

Also Blu-Ray doesn't need 'glory' it's the Ps3 standard so titles will appear on it regardless. Also when devs start struggling to squeeze these games with such high processing demands onto 9 gig dvds things will change and nothing either of us can say will change that.

Look at the Pc version of Gears of War, an extra 5 chapters already just cuz Dvd9 didn't have the capacity on the 360.

To be? Haha i've got all those consoles NOW mate.

Jim Dash

4 years ago

Smashed, especially considering to have multi-platform games by then, they'd have to employ either some extreme compression to the DVDs or produce multi-DVD games.

Don't call Ugh a fanboy, that's when the **** hits the fan.

ittekimasu

4 years ago

SMASHED wrote

ugh the boot wrote

lol i guess you miss the whole point, its that games in this gen take up more and more space, and while its all good and dandy to continue to use dvd it'll only be a matter of time before games won't be able to fit and if they do they'll have to sacrifice quality.

this is why it bothers me that the elite doesn't have the hd dvd drive included, why i wonder... its because it'll keep M$ forcing the loyal fanbase it's created to purchase the add on instead of making what they claim to be 'elite' live up to its name.

but like you've mentioned, tides can turn easily and it'll definitely be something to remember when the time comes.

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