Microsoft say Xbox 360 can handle MGS4
Filed under: Gaming, Xbox 360 | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: October 16, 2008 | 31 Comments
The boss over at Xbox Live has been saying that he would love to see MGS4 on the Xbox 360. We covered a story yesterday, which said that Konami’s Yoshitaka Arai was working on trying to bring the Metal Gear Solid series to the Xbox 360 console.
This news has caused a huge stir in the gaming world, and for once, all for the right reasons. John Schappert, has said that the games console can certainly handle MGS4, and has been full of praise for Kojima-san’s masterpiece.
There is nothing worse than having such a great game like Metal Gear Solid 4, only available for the Sony PS3. Gamers worldwide have been campaigning for the game to makes its way to the Xbox 360. Are you one of those who would like to see MGS4 on the Microsoft Xbox 360?
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Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to promote their aging and shoddy console, and this would include stealing the best exclusives that sony has to slow the progress of the PS3. They still want their system to be seen as having all the best games so that all the xbox fanboys continue to downplay the PS3 as not being a “true” gaming console or having any games (stop living in 2006 guys). A combination of price cuts and a few AAA titles before christmas will secure the 360’s lead this year, and next year their stolen exclusives will have an impact on overall sales as people will just buy MGS4 or FFXIII on 360 rather than getting a PS3. More shame to hurt Sony’s game…
Just like Sergio said above “it’s all about the benjamins”
The XBOX 360 is killing the PS3 and their useless blu-ray. MS has proven that they can win in Japan and the US. I’m not a xbox fan boy, i’m a game fan boy, I wish nothing but success to the PS3, but the blu-ray was a bad Idea. MS has said, the sales have proven it and Apple wants nothing to do with it.
MGS4 would sell fantastically on the 360, especially now that Japan has chosen the 360 over the PS3.
numbers, numbers, numbers… MGS4 is at the time one of the most expensive games developed, and the ps3 is not doing very well at the market, Konami owns the IP and dont have another succesful franchise, xbox360 are selling very well even on japan…just do the math.
@ TJ Spyke - Thanks for the clarification, appreciate it, wasn’t entirely sure about that statement but figured someone else would elaborate if I was wrong. However, the bottom line is Kojima STudios wouldn’t work on a port. So sure, pull a Valve and give it to EA lol.
PS. Given it’s year head start, the Xbox is in no way ‘killing’ the PS3. The recent price cut definitely help it’s sales, but it was trailing in sales in every region prior to the cut in 2008, so…
Morne
GameFrkGamer,
Your thinking too black and white. Try too hard to convince yourself that Sony is doing well. Since Sony took a real hard hit to win the Blue Ray war (by the way Sony did pay Fox & other big movie company to go exclusive) they cannot afford to drop the PS3 system price. It will hurt them too much. MS took a beating too by the ring of death, but they were smart having an external HD DVD just in case if it didn’t work out. If HD DVD did succeed, I’m sure MS would have used it for gaming as well. See, MS made options for themselves, Sony just looked at it & said hey we are Sony. We will win. That’s why they are in a bad position when it comes to their gaming industry.
I say they make a bargain. Mgs4 goes to 360 if halo 3 and gears of war series go to ps3 also.
This game will come to the 360 and sell way more than the ps3 version. MARK MY WORDS!!!
i hope this comes out i don’t care that much about the game but theres millions who do and i want to see microsolft kick sony asss
It doesn’t really matter who kicks who’s ass. What really matters is that we all get great games to play, regardless of what platform they arrive on. Why does everybody seem to suggest trading Halo and Gears of War for MGS 4. I thought Halo was crap and GoW was repetative and boring. Oh how the tunes change…
brodeur30njdvl, I hope you are just kidding. Metal Gear is a third party franchise that Sony has no control over. Halo is owned by Microsoft (not Bungie), so that will never appear on the PS3. Microsoft does publish the Gears of War games, but Epic Games owns the IP.
Only fanboys (like PS3 owners upset that their system is in third place, and has been outsold by the Xbox 360 in Japan for over a month) should have a problem with games appearing on as many systems as possible.