Rumor: MGS4 coming to Xbox 360 |
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| BY Rain Anderson Jan. 1st, 2008 | |
Rumors are always fun so why not start the new year off with one of the hottest ones of last year. Ready? Here we go.
The same site that last week brought the rumor of a Snake killer is now saying that Metal Gear Solid 4 will be released on the 360. The site claims that this news comes straight from a Konami distribution representative who said at an undisclosed distribution meeting that the 360 version has been in development since early 2007 and will arrive 12-14 months after the PS3 version.
While the site states several times that this is not a rumor, name of the Konami rep is not disclosed. They also contacted John Porcaro from Microsoft’s global marketing team hoping to get some kind of info but who ended up giving the usual runaround which ended with “no comment”.
What’s our take on this you ask ? While we really want this to be true - no names and no official confirmation = filed under rumors.
[See also: Metal Gear Solid 4 gallery]
January 2nd, 2008
at 4:39 am
Yea that would be cool having MGS on 360
June 13th, 2008
at 8:52 pm
Problem one - PS3 uses Blu Ray, and MGS4 was released on a double sided disk fully loaded (They had to cut content to keep it one one Bluray disc!).
Since the 360 only got a normal DVD, this mean the game will be a multi disk set. Dont get me wrong, i have both consoles, and likes both consoles for their own set of games, but this is just impractical.
June 22nd, 2008
at 4:49 am
According to what I’ve heard, the Xbox 360 version will use multiple DVD discs. However, this is considered a good thing by Konami, because the content that was not included in the Blu-ray disc will appear in the Xbox 360 version, because multiple DVD discs hold more content than one Blu-ray disc.
Having a game on multiple discs like that isn’t a big deal. I bet one of the entire DVD discs will be used to hold the 90-minute cinema in MGS4. Even the PS3 version has spots in the game that seem dedicated to pause spots where you will change discs in the Xbox 360 version.
I rented a PS3 and MGS4 and beat it over the weekend. I would probably rent the Xbox 360 version, too. But I don’t think MGS4 is a game worth buying an expensive system over.
June 23rd, 2008
at 6:26 am
Um it’s not coming to 360. MGS4 filled a 50gb blu-ray dis. Xbox uses 8gb DVD’s, so that means MGS4 would be 7 DVD’s. Not to mention that before each of the 5 acts, the game had to install for 2-3 minutes, a function that the 360 cannot do yet.
September 8th, 2008
at 1:54 pm
LOL @ Matthew
September 8th, 2008
at 2:31 pm
The PS3 version needed installs because Blu-ray is not fast enough to load all the data on the go. On the 360, instead of the silly installs which I believe are more like 7-8 minutes btw, you could just swap discs and be on your merry way instead of waiting for all that time. And yes, starting this fall, you can install an entire game on the 360, so there’s NO swapping disks either. You’d of course need the bigger hard drive version in the case of a large game like MGS4.
September 9th, 2008
at 7:54 pm
As publishers become more multi-platform orientated as is the latest trend,it would make good business sense to release this game on the 360. Games previously released as “platform exclusives” such as Bioshock for the 360 have since appeared on the ps3. I will not be surprised if Konami bring this across to the 360 within 12 months of the previous Ps3 June 08 date. Only games funded “in-house” such as Gran Tourismo for Sony and Gears of War for Microsoft will never be released on other formats (to date!). The future clearly lies with developers choosing to multi-platform their releases, simply by spreading the huge game development costs and thus reducing the risks of their costly investment. Im sure many 360 owners would love to see MGS4 on 360 and likewise for PS3 owners with Gears Of War 2….. both are worth waiting for im sure.
October 1st, 2008
at 8:58 pm
I hear xbox is gonna have blueray for 360 but that is just a rumor
October 19th, 2008
at 1:26 pm
guys i wouldn’t trust rumors if i were you. remember, rumors aren’t facts. MGS4 might/will not come on the 360.
October 20th, 2008
at 3:53 am
Well I think they could put all of mgs4 on one dvd. In stead of using the in game Engine to render the movies. Just make them pre-rendered compressed 1080p movies. Similar to what they did to Resident evil 4 for the ps2. Those weren’t in-game graphics movies in RE4(ps2 version only). this was due to the graphic capabilities of the ps2. The game cube and PC were the only exceptions to this.
It is possible they could do this.
July 6th, 2009
at 11:23 am
It is coming to xbox and ps3 sucks from installing and updating. on xbox it takes 30 seconds.