Metal Gear Solid 4: PS3 exclusive, like it always was

by Nick Doerr { Jul 11th 2007 at 6:30PM }

At Sony's conference, a lot of games were spotlighted. We mean a lot. While we'd love to go over the 15 first party exclusives, you all know them already, we're sure. So, we're going to move along and debunk the most annoying rumor we've had to put up with for the past year. Metal Gear Solid 4 was announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive during the conference, met with a loving nod by our favorite Hideo Kojima (we know about twenty, but this one is our favorite). Hopefully this dispels rumors completely. Set for an early 2008 simultaneous worldwide release, MGS4 has come along nicely and has a new trailer up on the PS Store, as you may know. Well, get ready to hear all the "timed exclusive" rumors now, which we're a little more ready to agree to. But not happy about.

Tags: e307, hideo kojima, HideoKojima, konami, metal gear solid 4, MetalGearSolid4, mgs 4, Mgs4, playstation 3, Playstation3, ps3, sony

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

eclipse27 @ Jul 11th 2007 6:34PM

No doubt .....times are good

Wonderflex @ Jul 11th 2007 6:39PM

And how! I am so pysched to be a PS3 owner. For a while I was afraid I was going to be left a dry with a fancy Blu-ray player, but now things are truly looking up.

Popfrogs @ Jul 11th 2007 6:40PM

Where are the trolls when you want to do the I Told You So dance?

WhackMushroom @ Jul 11th 2007 6:41PM

Nick just saw you on G4 .. you need to work on that belly ok .. but serious .. you should have held this post until after the konami junket .. my head would explode if this is not true but a nod from a non engrish speaking kojima really doesnt mean anything .. trenton could could have been laying on the political pressure by repeating it so much .. politics in gaming? what?

ndoerr @ Jul 11th 2007 6:51PM

@ WhackMushroom -- saw me on G4? I didn't know they were filming in my apartment =P In any case, trust me, this seems to be for real. I'm not ruling out a timed exclusive, but it's definitely exclusive until April 2008.

WhackMushroom @ Jul 11th 2007 7:09PM

another nick then LMAO. proab from joystiq .. im on a first name basis

qwerter @ Jul 11th 2007 7:19PM

ahh,finally i wont hear any more of the 360 fanboys sayin we got another one of yur exclusives, sounds like sony is finally gettin everything thing straightened out now, new games, better tittles and keeping exclusives

Consolcwby @ Jul 11th 2007 7:21PM

Well, if I had a 360 - I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this one... =P

bob @ Jul 11th 2007 7:25PM

NO IT WILL BE AN XBOX EXCLUSIVE!!

(I don't actually think this, but this is in place for you to laugh at, since no real xbox fanboys will dare show their face here)

Jldowning @ Jul 11th 2007 7:34PM

Xbox fanboy just got a invite to a Konami's Press Briefing, saying that they will get news of something they didn't expect... If its MGS4, Konami just lied to alot of people...

Maybe a new Silent hill? Wait WTF... why is the 360 getting another exclusive??!?!??!?!?!??!

WhackMushroom @ Jul 11th 2007 7:56PM

you see 10.'s comment Pot Belly Nick? Politics .. if konami pulls a fast one today we will believe they lied ;)

WhackMushroom @ Jul 11th 2007 7:57PM

11. while you do that we will be kicking major ass in killzone 2 bitch. unnnnhhhh i love e3 hostility!

Bangbang... @ Jul 11th 2007 8:30PM

I still dont see why people are upset about timed exclusives. Developers get to lead on their favorite platform, and consumers get to game on theirs. a win-win situtation if you ask me. I dont think the fanboys on either side were upset that RainbowSix, Oblivion, or VF5 were timed exclusives, so why is solid snake so different?

Jldowning @ Jul 11th 2007 8:42PM

Could be, I felt at the time that he said it 4 times to debunk the prior rumor. However I'm of the thought its Silent Hill 5. I wounder if it will be exclusive or not, and is it just microsoft peeps that got invited? If so its either exclusive, or the 360 is the lead platform. Which isn't a bad thing, but sucks to have ps3 stuck with another half port.

Either or, any new game is good news.

eclipse27 @ Jul 11th 2007 8:49PM

I just hope the 50 mil that M$ spent for exclusive content for GTA IV is worth it because Sony is finally stepping their game up in a major way. If M$ was smarter they would release Halo 3 for the holidays instead of September by thanksgiving H# wont have any more steam and then what will M$ do????

Thomas @ Jul 11th 2007 9:09PM

Xbox 360 fans go home!

WhackMushroom @ Jul 11th 2007 9:15PM

ok everyone breathe easy .. konami just wrapped up .. there is no huge surprise .. there is a god.

mark @ Jul 11th 2007 9:25PM

I am a proud 360 owner (as well as a PS2, gamecube, Xbox, PSP, dreamcast,etc...) No PS3 yet. I actually hope this stays a PS3 exclusive. I like the game. I will buy a PS3 when it has at least 4 exclusive titles I want to play. With killzone2, MGS4, Lair, and Heavenly sword, that should do it. Fanboy does not equal dickhead, but from the way some fanboys act on both sides you'd never know it. So from a 360 fanboy to PS3 fanboys, congrats on a good E3, and look forward to killing some of you online in Killzone 2...Peace

napalmfuzz @ Jul 11th 2007 9:43PM

again, konami just cant let the rumor die, they are as responsible for the rumors as the fanboys.

they refuse to just 100 percent debunk a 360 version of MGS4, whether that be because its allready in the works, or they dont want to burn any bridges, who knows.

"no plans at this time" is definately not "Bitch this game aint never going to xbox"

Thomas @ Jul 11th 2007 10:25PM

I'm so sick of hearing about MGS4 on xbox 360... damn they got fatal inertia (the racing game) can't they just be happy with that..

mccomber @ Jul 11th 2007 11:08PM

But... take some steps! take some steps? Please, please... steps...

Good riddance, one of the most annoying rumours that kept coming up no matter what was said against it. Now we can move on to the "it sucks anyway, that was just a movie at e3" responses, and then the "well, they're going to port FFVIII to the 360" after that.

Then the "well, our console would have sold as many as the ps3 too if..."

Someday...

Dahk @ Jul 12th 2007 12:27AM

... Why is there such a big age difference between Meryl and Snake?

ekbigpimping @ Jul 12th 2007 2:06AM

wasn't this game being released in 2007

napalmfuzz @ Jul 12th 2007 5:20AM

move past it? can't you guys read? we're far from over with it. konami hasnt even decided yet, but you're positive? thats some forsight right there.

Popfrogs @ Jul 12th 2007 8:20AM

@23: Yeah I caught that too. I knew Meryl was younger but the trailer makes her look 20-30 years younger. And what's up with Liquid and Solid having flowing hair, and hers looks like papier mache?

@24: That's what the previous trailer said. Now we have "Early 2008". It's probably going to be ready for 2007 but maybe Konami is waiting for Halo 3 madness to die down...or they're not finished with it. Just like iD games, they say it'll be done when it's done.

BTW is it just me or was Sony totally unprepared for the PSN Store barrage of downloading? It took me, literally, 4 hours to download the MGS4 trailer which is only ~260 megs. My downstream is 6000Kb.

joel @ Jul 12th 2007 8:25AM

Konami's Hideo Kojima never said that Metal Gear Solid 4 would be exclusive to the Playstation 3. In fact, Konami actually indicated otherwise.

The fact is, Sony's speaker, Jack Tretton, put words in the mouth of Hideo Kojima, because before Kojima was introduced, Tretton said that MGS4 is a PS3 exclusive game. Kojima doesn't even speak the english language, and he had an interpreter with him! He never said MGS4 was an exclusive game at E3 2007

It really is a sad thing the way Sony's speaker named Tretton only mentioned a couple exclusive games for the Holiday 2007 shopping, and BOTH of them are going to be on the Xbox 360 in early 2008!

The really bad thing is that Tretton used the word "Exclusive" for Metal Gear Solid 4 in the exact same way he did for Haze and Unreal. That makes me think Metal Gear Solid 4 is only a timed exclusive on PS3.

I don't think that buying a system for timed-exclusive games is worth $500. Especially since the Xbox 360 versions of games are better.

I love Halo, that's why I bought an Xbox 360.

I love Crackdown, and only the Xbox 360 lets me play the complete version with the two extra episodes. That much is common knowledge.

And I love football. Only the Xbox 360 lets me play the three football games this year at 60 frames per second. The PS3 versions only run at 30 frames per second.

I may be a fan of the PS1 and PS2, but I'm not spending $500 for a PS3 system with such poor performing software that won't even have games like Gran Turismo until late 2008. PS3 will probably have dropped another $100 by the. Maybe it will be worth it by then. But definitely not now.

Shuichi @ Jul 12th 2007 9:49AM

Can we FINALLY put this rumor to bed. It's getting pretty annoying now, every other week this rumor seems to resurface.

RTYPE1124 @ Jul 12th 2007 10:38AM

@23 & 26
The reason for that is because Snake is a clone of Big Boss. Clones according to the storyline age at a quicker rate. Thats the reason that from MGS 1 to MGS4 (9 years in the timeline) Snake looks the way he does.

ArtVandelay @ Jul 12th 2007 10:43AM

@joel

by my count the 360 has just about the same number of exclusives the PS3 does...as in exclusives that will never go multiplatform (Halo, heavanly sword, Gears, Resistance, Ratchet...). IMO MGS4 will eventually see the 360 but for the most part, the large majority of games the consoles share.

Basically a handful of games separate the 360 from the PS3, with that in mind would you pay $399 for a console with a 33% chance of failing, no wifi, no hi def player,...or $499 for a console with all that, free online and a 1% chance of failing?

So, given the opportunity to go back in time knowing what you know now. Would your 360 be "worth it"?

chris.westermann @ Jul 12th 2007 11:00AM

Anybody else p*ssed off that the date's been pushed back to early 2008 even though they promised it a few months ago in late 2007? I am tired of companies talking out of their *sses about game release dates. Just say coming soon, don't put a date or even mention which year its coming out if you can't deliver. MG4 will be awesome, but my heart can't take the deceptive marketing. If you don't know when it will be ready, don't make sh*t up. I can forgive a company for taking too long to make the game perfect, I can't stand a company that breaks empty promises in order to generate hype.

Aaron @ Jul 19th 2007 1:11AM

360 will never get MGS4.

Paddy @ Jul 25th 2007 12:18PM

"most of america will be enjoying the 2 new EXCLUSIVE zones in the 360 version of GTA4."

Well, PS3's GTA is an HD Exclusive; It will be in SD for the 360 because they can't fit it in HD because of the 9GB space limit... So "Most of America" will be looking at 576i and p Screens HAHA!
When We'll be playing with our 1080p Screens =]