Microsoft's Shane Kim has a lot to be happy about, following a relatively successful E3 showing. One of the biggest Xbox-flavored shockers this year was arguably the appearance of Hideo Kojima, who announced a whole new Metal Gear Solid experience for the Xbox 360. For Kim, this announcement has 'leveled the playing field' for third party exclusives.
"I still think exclusive content is really important. First of all, in games, we've said for a long time that a key part of our strategy with Xbox 360 was a level third-party playing field. Now we've effectively done that with Metal Gear Solid [Rising] coming to the Xbox 360," boasts Kim. "The economics are such that third parties also have to support multiple platforms, and you can't ignore Xbox 360. It's the second leading platform.
"It's too much of a business-driver to just be focused on a single platform if you're not a first party. So, it's up to the first parties to deliver the bulk of the exclusive game content. Now, we're having success with third parties because we can still get exclusive downloadable content, because of the service we've built with Live and the business we've been able to generate for third-party publishers there."
It's certainly a coup for Microsoft to finally crack the Metal Gear case, even if it's not MGS4. Luckily, Sony still has Ragdoll Kung Fu. Nobody's taking that feather from the PS3's cap!
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11:20 AM on 06.16.2009
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Wait, no.
JOURNALISM.
Anything to back that up with?
Actually exclusivity IS the gaming industry. If all games were available to all consoles they're would only be one console and one handheld and if that happened they could sell their crap for whatever price they liked. It wouldn't be an industry it would be a bunch of overpriced crap for one place not to mention that there wouldn't be enough choice between the consoles. I want a wii because I love the series and cell shading, I'll want a PS3 for the graphics and I would want an Xbox as a sorta middle ground between casual and hardcore. If something comes out for another system we either need to buy that system or go without because it's a system that works fine and has been around since the beggining
Sony still has - or will in 2010 - more than enough other titles to make me get one but yeah still a good blow for Microsoft by taking away another brand you used to associate with Playstation
Open to interpret (if a little fanboyish): If there were no exclusives, PS3 would be in some deep, deep...doo doo.
Yeah, but that was a port, which if i remember correctly, was very glitchy in the xbox version.
Ooops, very good point. I completely forgot about that, funnily enough it was a timed exclusive on Xbox, Substance or something. Think I already had Sons of Liberty on PS2 so that's my excuse for forgetting!
360 is getting Metal Gear, true, But it's a Spin-off with no Solid Snake which I have a suspicion is going to be a DMC-eque Slash em up.
Main series holds alot more power in the eyes of the fan, Ask any die-hard Final Fantasy fan, such as my self. I don't really care about not getting Crystal Chronicles on my PS2. If FF12 was Gamecube only, I'd have gone mental. If it was a Bonafide MGS5, It would be level.
Exclusivity is a good thing though. PS3 needs them more than ever, but with its exclusives it is becoming more and more of an attractive system. That and a fucking price-cut, but exclusives seems to be the chosen strategy. Still, saying that, the best exclusive this generation for me, has been Gears. The whole 'cover-system' mechanic has made third person shooters (on consoles) a hell of a lot more playable. And fun.
Morne
Xbox owners get a game that isn't even considered a "true sequel" to an MGS title, and an MGS title that Kojima doesn't even have any involvement in. Hardly leveling the field.
If this game can deliver anywhere near the level of intense action from any of the clips with cyborg ninjas, it doesn't matter what series it's from, it'll be a badass game. After the finality of MGS4 (but really just its atrocious dialog and script), the further removed from the main story, the better IMO.
If I were them, I would focus more on Splinter Cell being new and different both from MGS and from the older games in its series and preferably do it without plugging "exclusive to xbox 360" every other sentence because it makes the speaker look like an enormous tool unless it's coupled with a release date and given way at the end.
Being as he's not my favorite part of the series... at all... I'm cool with this.
Also: who cares? If you got a PS3 for Metal Gear, you'll still get this game.
Not to mention that sony(and the entire gaming industryfor that matter) won't sit still either and will continually raise the bar,that and kojima seems to express little intrest in this project,your basically banking on the fact that the multi plat standard will hold up for two years(in an industry that can totally about face in two months, maybe less), there kinda setting themselves up to eat their words.
Prudence MS, it does ya good.
Wtf happened to Raiden's head??
@ SantaClaus89
It was a joke dude, you don't have to take it so seriously. And besides, Agent isn't going to be exclusive...
There was other games I want more but that was one of my top - if not my favourite - video of E3.
Sooo I assume you work at rockstar and have detailed info on how they plan on porting it, because I work at ubisoft and have detailed info on how splinter cell is coming to the ps3 because of their past actions.
See what I did there, I'm all for proving a point and won't spite anyone for it, but if your gonna make a claim like that you should bring evidence and not opinions and interpritations on past actions because that's how these flame wars get started and the fanboy word gets slung around.
As of now you can't say the agent won't be exclusive just as I can't say splinter cell won't be exclusive because neither of us are in the know.
I still say that's not Raiden.
Morne
Also, Detox makes me want to fucking shoot something.
This is pretty peaceful actually, if you think this is bad oooooooh the websites I could show you would melt your brain.
This is barely an arguement if that.
Hehe, I know what you mean, I'm on Gametrailers quite a lot and every second comment is as intelligent as Detox' above. I'm pretty sure they don't even know what they are arguing about.
"because they don't shit about the story "
What the fuck does that mean?
Morne
360 EXCLUSIVE
I wonder how much this is actually going to be like Metal Gear Solid, or be the "Starcraft: Ghost" of MGS. Only, this game will actually come out.
...oh, and Jim sucks
I wonder how much this is actually going to be like Metal Gear Solid, or be the "Starcraft: Ghost" of MGS. Only, this game will actually come out.
...oh, and Jim sucks
Yes, I've noticed that, and I bet it means the game will be a rail shooter and it will be bundled with a special light gun
Please ban Detox for extreme suckage and being too young to troll the internets without supervision.
Also, where is the "ignore" button on this crazy thing.
Thanks in advance
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Blasto