Oh Hideo Kojima, you shady old bastard, you! The Metal Gear Solid creator has explained why the latest game in his stealth series, Peace Walker, is on the PlayStation Portable, despite looking epic enough to deserve a place on the PS3. According to Kojima, it's so that kids can play it!
"With the PS3, you've got a whole range of middle and high school kids who can't play your game because their parents don't let them play video games at home," explains the mad professor. "Those kids can whine at their parents all day about how the game's anti-war and anti-nukes, but they'll just respond 'Well, you're still killing people with guns, aren't you?' and brush it off.
"I wanted to go the extra mile for gamers in that sort of situation. That was one of the reasons I chose the PSP."
So there you go. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is on the PSP so that the kids can play it (and also learn his important anti-nuke message). I'd really like to see Kojima explain that one to The Daily Mail.
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10:20 AM on 10.22.2009
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Should have just brought it to 360! Then MILLIONS of CHILDREN could play it.
LAWL.
I love Kojima's games, but c'mon...
oh and sexualchocolate GTFO
Kojima may have just shot himself in the foot there.
What parents won't let their kid play video games at home but buys them a PSP? Maybe he's talking specifically about Japanese families. I don't know...I just wish this was a PSN game so I could play it ;_;
or are you saying that the ant-360 opinion is not welcome here?
On topic, I don't understand what the shady old bastard is on about with this. Surely parents that are strikt about PS3 gaming are strikt about PSP gaming too??
I don't care though. If it means I can give my PSP a little love, then I'm all for it.
It's just Halo that's saturated with children, not the entire system. And, honestly, I doubt the Halo demographic would be the kind to play the MGS series.
Nintendo Wii
The Wii, which is by far the bestselling home console of this generation, appeals mainly to males aged between six and 11, and females aged between 25 and 34. Women over the age of 35 use the Wii much more than either the PS3 or Xbox 360. Which would kind of explain how Wii Fit continues to top the all-format charts month after month.
Microsoft Xbox 360
The Xbox 360, currently sitting in a very comfortable second place in terms of sales, appeals mainly to males aged between 12 and 17, and females aged between 25 and 34. This seems like a bizarre mix but the younger age range for boys could explain the level of petty whining and douchebaggery on display over Xbox Live.
Sony PS3
The PS3 generally seems to appeal to the older generation, with no young kids anywhere in the mix. This could just be because the Sony machine is so damn expensive that kids are still saving up their pocket money for one. Both males and females saw the largest usage amongst the 18 to 24 age range. This is considered the hardcore range where gamers play more games and for longer than any other age range."
Why the hell would a person tell kids to not listen to their parents? Also this guy is a big hypocrite. "Hey kids! Nukes are BAD, and so is war! But killing thousands of mooks to prove a preachy message is okay!" He says that the game is anti-war even though the point of the game is to KILL YOUR WAY TO VICTORY!
Seriously, what the fuck.
That's nice; is that peer reviewed? Maybe a link? Also if its an "offical" report, I'm sure "douchebaggery on display over Xbox Live" isn't scientifically sound. How did they gather this data? What's the sample size? Copying and pasting something from PS3.com doesn't count as a solid article.
Also, way to turn a PS3 article into an Xbox bashing thread. You really can't stop talking about that system you hate so much, can you? It even overtakes you in threads about your precious Sony. Suppressed desire to own one, maybe?
Point taken though.
I don't blame anyone who doesn't want a PS3/360/Wii, but at least stick to coherent reasons.
Anyway, Peace Walker looks epic, I'm pretty excited for both new MG games. I don't buy his logic, though. If I wasn't going to buy violent games for my daughter on 360/PS3/wii, then I wouldn't buy her one on PSP either. The new generation of parents actually grew up playing games, and we actually know what we're getting when we buy games for our kids.
"Suppressed desire to own one, maybe?"
You said things that are almost certainly right.
Yeah and pointing out the hypocrisy in an anti-war game that has you killing people, is about as smart as criticizing any media that has an anti-content message BUT STILL HAS THAT CONTENT GRR IT MAKES ME MAD. It's not fucking Gears of War mate, hoo hah let's kill us some Locusts, oh my war is certainly hell etc.
Sigh, where the hell is my DS remake of Ghost Babel?
@SexualChocolate
I'm not the biggest fan of the 360, but I don't bash on it like you do, and I make a fool myself doing so.
"So Psycho Mantis represents the totalitarian leader and the marble busts he's throwing at me is government spending?"
"So Psycho Mantis represents the totalitarian leader and the marble busts he's throwing at me is government spending?"
Raiden = Teh mature
Seems like a true enough statement to me.
Clearly you've never played a MG game--you don't have to kill a single enemy for any of the games, save for MGS3 & 4's ending (though 4 is more a matter of self-defense). The core idea of the game was AVOIDING a fight and accomplishing the mission.
Also, I would think that retroactively destroying precious dinosaurs would be worse than taking out terrorists but apparently PARENTS KNOW BETTER.
Even at a very early age, kids can tell that videogame characters aren't real, even in HD. The most realistic videogame characters today still look like they are made out of plastic.
Before, I was actually a little irritated that Peace Walker wasn't coming to home consoles, but now that I know why it's not, I'm all for it.
DS has 2 screens. That makes it threesome compatible.