You can imagine Microsoft is feeling pretty smug about yesterday's "MEGATON ZOMG SQUARE-ENIX BE TRAITORZ" announcement that Final Fantasy XIII was heading to the Xbox 360, but in case your imagination wasn't enough, here's what Aaron Greenberg told reporters following the event:
We have a white board that lists all of the games people said we’d never get. That list is getting smaller.
At the very top of the white board, one has to guess that Metal Gear Solid 4 sits itching to be wiped off. FF XIII was a huge coup and a few people are feeling that Guns of the Patriots can only follow. When asked about it by MTV's Stephen Totilo, Greenburg was coy, merely laughing it off and suggesting that it was "a question for Konami."
Oh Greenburg, you sly devil, you. What does Destructoid's E3-following community think? Is MGS4 a matter of time for The 'Soft, or will Sony hang on to arguably its biggest exclusive?
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5:03 AM on 07.15.2008
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I don't know, the Microsoft produced rumors about MGS4 coming to 360 have been around since the announcement of the game and they should at some point just stop it.
On a different note, I could see MGO coming to 360 though.
If it comes to 360, that just means I won't have to pay for it ;O.
This sort of thing doesnt surprise me anymore and fails to move me. This generation robbed me of my innocent console loyalties.
Everyone at Konami and MS are always all smiley, giggly, and coy when it comes this topic..... something is up.
Anyway, I've played smidgens of it on the PS3 and I would love to play it on my 360 controller, earning achievements along the way. =)
I'd be willing to bet a kidney that the only reason a Blu-Ray disc was 'needed' was because there was very little compression done.
Honestly, all these PS3 fanboys whooping about disc changes seem to forget how many DVDs the average game gets (even when it's multiplatform) - one.
Also, why do disc changes even matter? I don't recall people complaining about multi-disc PS1/PS2 releases?
They would have to do new sections for where the forth wall gets broken and they refer to the hardware though, which could be pretty cool/funny.
All of these debacles make the entire industry look childish.
To be honest though, I'd rather see the MGS Essential Collection come to 360 first. Then I wouldn't even have a need to get a PS2! ;)
'sun the company' is ridiculous.
The game is only 50 GB because Kojima's a stickler about that stuff. Saying it takes 50 GB means that it is over 5X as large as GTAIV. Somehow, I have trouble believing that. I dunno what it is... hmmm....
If compressed, it would take two DVDs at max I'd think. It's not like PS3 owners don't have to wait for installs anyway, they could just have a disc swap prior to Act IV or something instead of installs.
I've never seen Microsoft jump on a "false rumor" like that.
The only reason MGS4 took up a whole disc was because of the uncompressed audio and the video GAARRRBLLLARG.
It will be two discs at the most. I read the game only has 7GB of actual game data, and the rest was audio and fluff. If you cut the audio down one level, you've already saved yourself 40% of the space.
I mean look at KKrieger, its amazing the amount of compression those people did this game is only 97k or so and looks stunning.
the ps3 fanboys seem to forget the 1st metal gear was on multiple discs.
Really the chapter device is what makes this game easy to divide into multiple discs. Will people care about swapping discs? Maybe. Will it be any different from the installs, no.
I got it for the PS3, I won't repurchase for 360. But with previous iterations, Konami has released to other platforms for the special re-issue.
Seriously, you whores. stfuajpg.
Also, has anyone even considered why MS has decided to let gamers put their games on their harddrive to play? hmmmmm?
Also, >1 mile away means GREATER than, unless you were being sarcastic, then it makes sense.
Your deduction skills are quite amazing in the last sentence.
ALSO did everyone just scip the fact that with LIVE 2.0 you can copy the game to your HDD? no disk swapping, not like disc swapping is a big deal?!
Not only will Konami have to alter a fair few scenes of dialog (either re-record or drop) but on the PS3 the game is uncompressed on a blu-ray disk. I imagine it'll take a hell of a lot of work to compress the game down so that it'll fit onto a non ridiculous number of DVDs.
Now Metal Gear Online... that could be more of a possibility in the near future
MICROSOFT IS BUYING APPLE. CONFIRMED.
Also, multiple dicks.
Thats how rumors spread.
What would be crazy though: "Metal Gear Solid 4, announced for Wii!"
@Necros No disc swapping if you copied your games to the HDD which you can do in the new live.....