Metal Gear Solid 4: 6/12/08 Release Date, included in 80 GB PS3 SKU
Throughout Solid Snake’s adventures he managed to infiltrate a nuclear weapons disposal facility, evade enemy forces within Big Shell, and survive the savage wilderness of the Soviet Jungle. Solid Snake’s 4th mission on the Playstation will be his easiest yet – to destroy the Xbox 360.
Come June 12th, that’s exactly what Solid Snake will do when the release of MGS4 will coincide with a new 80 GB SKU that comes packaged with Metal Gear Solid 4, a Dual Shock 3 controller, free online play, free WiFi, Blu-Ray, a standard hard drive, and the most advanced home console on the marketplace for the affordable price of only $499.
The Playstation 3 is already outselling the Xbox 360 in every single region and the release of Metal Gear Solid 4 will only strengthen its lead globally. Since Metal Gear Solid 4 is a third party title, every single unit that is packaged in the 80 GB SKU of the PS3 will be a sale for Konami, a deal that has been inked between the two companies that will assure that MGS4 remains a complete exclusive to the Playstation 3 and will never be released on the Xbox 360. This deal makes sense for both companies since it will trigger unprecedented demand for the Playstation 3 console while at the same time managing to make Metal Gear Solid 4 sell better than any of the previous titles in the saga. With complete exclusitvity, Konami won’t have to waste precious dollars that are better suited towards exclusive PS3 development in order to graphically downgrade a port that spans across 8 DVDs just so it is able to release on the inferior Xbox 360 console.
goddamnit, I had to get a ps3 before MGS 4 was released and miss out on the bundle didn’t I?
inb4 “It’ll be on 360 because I think it will”
holy shit, I’m already seeing positive responses on /v/
WTF HAPPENED TO YOU /V/!?
An 80GB P$3 packaged with a game? Uh-huh. Okay I think I see an error in the article above. Desire for the system may be high, but demand will be quite low. Sony still has not learned that people are not willing to pay unlimited amounts of money for their systems, no matter how good they may be.
Just like the Neo-Geo.
An 80GB P$3 packaged with a game? Okay I think I see an error in the article above. Desire for the system may be high, but demand will be quite low. Sony still has not learned that people are not willing to pay unlimited amounts of money for their systems, no matter how good they may be.
Just like the Neo-Geo.
o you guys turning the simplest story into a xbox 360 bash
*sigh* i love the 360 and ps3 they are both great systems and both wont die so please stop being idiots
but i will say one final thing gta, metal gear solid 4 and ninja gaiden 2 are gonna make for the best summer for gaming ever ( and why do you never bash the wii )
You may be in for a bit of a shock when MGS4 doesn’t destroy a console that’s beating about your precious PS3 and don’t think of a second Konami will keep this exclusive forever. Devil May Cry 4 selling 2 million after only a few weeks at retail? 360 more then helped and, as far as I can tell, actually had majority sales.
1. Devil May Cry did not sell more than 2 million.
2. PS3 is outselling the Xbox 360 in every single region.
3. Sony and Konami have a deal in place for complete exclusivity, that’s why MGS4 (a third party title) is being packaged in the 80 GB SKU.
1. http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/02/20/devil-may-cry-4-hits-2-million-worldwide/ nice piece of proof there.
2. When the latter is sold out
3. proof please. Also, there was a PS3 SKU with DMC4 with it. explain that.
1. I don’t trust websites with ‘fanboy’ in their name.
2. Not sold out. Plenty of arcades to be found, plus the PS3 is also sold out of the 80 GB SKU.
3. That SKU wasn’t released in America, nor was it the 80 GB SKU which is the best selling PS3 SKU. MGS4 will never come out on the Xbox 360. It’s been stated a million times by both Sony and Konami.
dont trust a site with fanboy in the name hans lol XD even if its a ps3 fanboy lol
and ps YOU GUYS ARE FANBOYS lol(ps3 and 360 4ever lol)
Hans (MR. Golden Knee Pad 2008 award winner) now jumps in. Hey Hans, sorry, but MGS4 will not save Phony POS3! Only thing POS3 is good for are blu-ray movies. Never liked MGS series, never will. Too much craptacular CGI cut scenes. Also, DMC4 DID sell 2+ million, do a little more web research than just crappy SDF or Sony sites. Like it or not, in 1-2 years MGS4 will be on 360, not that I care. 360 doesn’t need a crappy POS3 port. And by then Mass Effect 2 (not for POS3) will be out. Did I mention $ony sucks!!!
1. DMC4 isn’t out in all regions yet, sony fantards can’t use simple logic.
2. For a MONTH. One month doesn’t make up for the MILLIONS more 360s already sold.
3. Wait till DMC4 sells like wildfire in the 360, Konami will look at their MGS4 “exclusivity” deal and go, tcha…know what? NUH-UH!
4. Nextgenchink is a spic too!
this is bs ,, this site was saying that ps3 was having record sales and all that …
will all those ps3 players buy a new ps3 just to get a decent controller and FINALLY a good game ?????
that means for about 1000 $ you get MSG4, one vibrating controller, one “broken” controller, 2 ps3′s (why?)… add to that a TV to make you see the smalle difference between ps3 and xbox360 (2000$)
thats 3000$ just to play a game that you will probably finish in 5-10 hours…
who here like to spend 300$ per hour to play a game ?
that my take on all the math that is featured on this site !
OMG! A $500 game! What a deal! What I wouldn’t give to buy MGS at 10 times the retail price! Thanks Sony! Bankruptcy’s just what I’ve always wanted.
yes!!while all you xbots are going thru red rings, and all that horrible niose that crappy 360 makes, i will be playing the grand final chapter of the best stealth,covert ops,series of all time!!!
MGS4 is a PS3 exclusive. Get over it. Kojima said it himself. There’s even a frickin’ SIXAXIS controller in the game. What more do you want?
Theres a difference between MGS4 never coming to the 360 and a Metal Gear game of any sort coming to the 360. MGS4 will never be on the 360, but that doesn’t mean you’ll never get some odd spinoff to be released as well.
Plus, this game well exceeds the 9GB limit that DVD has. That’s according to Kojima, not Sony, so its harder to pull the “he’s lying” BS. Lets face it, This game has been in development for the PS3 for years. If they suddenly turn around and port it to the 360, You Xbox owners will probably get the same bitter taste of a crappy port that PS3 owners, up until recently, experienced all too often.
Wow. So much stuff to say. Lets see…. First of all, I will say something positive. This is a really good bundle and Im sure will push quite a few consoles.
Secondly, I like how you mention that when the MGS4 360 port comes out, it will be on like 8 discs… What you should have mentioned is that PS3 owners who buy MGS4 will probably have to sit through a 30 minute mandatory download just like they did with Devil May Cry 4… ha ha. Thats sooo lame.
Now onto the other stuff….
If you think MGS4 will be a Sony exclusive forever, you are very, very wrong. And the fact that the game is coming bundled with the PS3 means absolutely nothing to prove its exclusivity. You clearly just made that up.
The Metal Gear Solid series had always been more of a cult favorite. It gets great reviews but they never sell anywhere close to the impressive #’s that Halo series or Legend of Zelda series sell. With that in mind, porting the game to the 360 and opening up the market to over 17 million additional consoles is obviously on Konami’s mind. Plus, it’s a weel known fact that 360 owners buy more software than Wii owners and PS3 owners combined(7 game attach rate), and thats why you see all the best 3rd party games on the 360 (and some of them are exclusives like Bioshock, Mass Effect, Ninja Gaiden, The Age of Conan etc…)MGS4 is an expensive game to make and if you think Konami is going to cut out the 360 and its 7 game attach rate, then you dont know business very well.
Even if the PS3 manages to catch up to the 360 in hardware sales (at this rate that will happen sometime in 2012), developes will always favor the 360 because its easier to design games for and 360 owners buy alot more software… It’s simple business strategy. Anything else is just hype and hopeful wishes from pathetic sony fanboys.
lol post.
MGS4 will be on 360 because I think it will.
Devil May Cry 4 did sell two million copies. Straight out of Capcom’s mouth.
http://ir.capcom.co.jp/english/news/html/e080220.html
@hans
1. Here’s a link since you don’t trust websites with the word “fanboy” in them
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6186309.html?part=rss&tag=gs_all_games&subj=6186309
2. If you did goto that link and read the article it was a good move for Capcom to make it multiplatform.
3. Why the fuck are you so hell bent on a failure of a console (xbox360) in the first place? If MGS4 does or doesn’t come to the 360 why the fuck do you care? I don’t care if BioShock goes multiplatform (actually i would be glad if Wii and PS3 owners could experience such a kickass game) and shouldn’t that be a good thing for PS3 owners such as yourself? Also what would happen if MGS4 does get ported over to the 360 (sure it would be on a few disks but who gives a crap as long it’s good times) and graphically it’s comparable to the ps3; would you shut up then? My answer is probably not.
@Hans
Then this site should be called “SonyNeedsDefending byFanboysSuchasHansandNextgenuser.com”
Also if this site claims Sony needs defending then they (sony) must not being doing something right in your opinion.
I see snakes been playing his X-box 360 must be why MGS4 was delayed
Hell yeah a COD4 patch maybe by the weekend!!
@Hans
Remember that 360 owners also get there big game a week before (Ninja Gaiden2), but it’s nowhere has hyped as MGS4 though so it won’t be a big surprise if it outsells NG2 (but NG2 won’t be no slouch either). On the other hand w00t MGS4 is finally coming out I just hope it’s good.
@ Hans
360 looks to be doing better to me…
http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Devil+May+Cry+4+-+X360®2=All&game2=Devil+May+Cry+4+-+PS3®3=All&game3=&weeks=25&weekly=1
hold on remember when they totally trashed microsoft for doing this with halo 3 but praising sony for the msg4 um hypocritic much FUCKTARDS
So an 80gb P$3 with a newly released game is going to be, what, $550 or so? Yeah, good luck “dominating” again with hardware most can’t afford and with features that most don’t need.
And just watch when Sony starts sending “gift baskets” to journalists. “Here’s a compementary copy of MGS for you to review (PS3 included)!”
It just goes to show the trouble Sony’s still having trying to sell games for their system. The PS3 is selling quite well.
The games are not.
So we have to package them in with the system so people are forced to pick up a game with their new Blu-Ray movie player.
erik.
The bundle is going to be $500. Way to pay attention.
Why are they so intent on saying that one game will destroy a console? Even if MGS4 sells well there’s no way that the 360 will fail with games like NG2 and GTA4 coming out soon and fable to coming out later this year i think
xeacons:
It’s not like people wanting only a blu ray player will pick up this bundle, dummy! There’s a 40GB for a hundred bucks less.
“Sony and Konami have a deal in place for complete exclusivity, that’s why MGS4 (a third party title) is being packaged in the 80 GB SKU.”
Since when does the fact that a third party title is being packaged with a console make it exclusive? MGS4 might be exclusive, but you could have at least got a little proof.
@hans
“and survive the savage wilderness of the Soviet Jungle” if you actually played the MGS games you should know that Solid Snake wasn’t the hero of MGS3 it was his daddy Big Boss. Ya Fucking idiot.
Also if MGS4 was is “to destroy the Xbox 360″ than Halo 3 would have completely obliterated the PS3. MGS4 (as much as I love the series) is not everyone’s cup of tea either. It will sell well but it WILL NOT see Halo 3 numbers. It would take a game bigger than the MGS series to do that (maybe Final Fantasy but that’s doubtful as well).
Hey Hans, yo retard, every single region eh?
EXCEPT JAPAN! WOAAAAAHHHHH
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/09/xbox-360-outsells-ps3-in-japan/
Halo 3 sold more in one day than MGS3 sold in the years since its release, so I really find it funny that people think MGS4 is going to destroy anything. Even with the present ratio of the PS3 outselling the XB360 by a mere 30,000 units, that is enough for the XB360 to maintain its 10 million unit lead over the PS3 almost forever. Anyway, I rather the PS3 got that awesome Infinite Undiscovery and Tales of Vesperia the XB360 is getting, than another interactive movie with a stupid almost incomprehensible incoherent storyline like the MGS series has became. I find it funny that people even call MGS a game series anymore, its pretty much just a digital interactive finm now, and those went out of style with It Came from The Desert on the Turboduo.
MSG4 will never be on 360 because Xbox doesnt have the hardware to even load the first 10 seconds of game.
Unless Konami makes a lower version, like downgrading it like Halo, to 600p, 30FPS, lower graphics (like those HUGE pixels) lower sound quality, deleting videos, extra missions, online modes etc… Anyways, a Nintendo DS version would be better than 360 one.
PS3 wins again, xboxers are ready to try to beat me and PS3, but they has never won yet. They will talk about different games, like DMC4 and stuff like that, while they’re crying because they cant play MGS4. Also, now looks like, magically, they dont like MGS because they cant play it on 360… Bill Gates has broken their minds… Pathetic, but realistic.
Stop saying that Halo 2.5 is awesome, because it isnt. a game with 600p resolution, with low graphics, with a pathetic storyline (expected one anyways), and when you play multiplayer the resolution goes down to 450p aprox……. you cant save more than 1 game, so you cant play alone and when your friend comes, play cooperative, because the 360 is retard and you cant save more than 1 game… Online mode has lag, and the game is SLOW, you turn slow, you shoot slow, you run slow. So, please xboxers, dont try to make Halo an epic game, because the old Halos are better than this one.
I won, reply me, I wont read it anyways (I’m a busy man, not like xboxers, wasting their time buying HD-DVD players).
Hans, you are doing great, really.
I wish that you guys start a 360defense site too – i know that you can do it
MGS4 coming with the 80 gig sku? Sorry to hear that. Now if they make a bundle that comes with Little Big Planet I might be interested.
CAN’T WAIT FOR NINJA GAIDEN 2!
why the fuck do 2 of my most anticipated games of the year have to come out within a week of each other?
@nextgenuser
Even if halo 3 sucks, MGS4 wont sell as much =O
I like it how ps3 fanboys go one about how bad graphics makes games bad and if it were on ps3 it would be better because of “blu-ray” open your eyes guy, great graphics don’t make the game great, the gameplay does, and thats why the ps3 is sucking ass at the mo, because it has shit ass games
@nextgenuser
If graphics make the game in your opimion than Crysis has MGS4 and everything else on the market beat.
Also not every 360 owner likes halo; I sure as shit don’t really care for it all espescially the online.
I love my 360, and i found Halo 3 shit. But theres one difference between the PS3 games and the 360 games. 360 owners have been playing AAA games for over 2 years. PS3 players will finally play a AAA game 1 1/2 yrs AFTER the console came out. SUCKA’S!!
As for MGS4 having to be stripped down to play on a 360, dude, ur a fucking retard. Is that like the same stripped down games that get ported over from the 360 to PS3? Douche!!
MGS4 WONT stay exclusive, might do for 6 months or so, but a games company isnt Sony’s or Microsofts friend, they are in it to make money not have one up on console makers, if they can, they will make money by any means possible. Konami “we could sell 3 million copies of this on the 360, but nah, we prefer to keep it on the PS3 in a package and sell 500,000 copies instead” i doubt thats ever gonna happen.
“With complete exclusitvity”
What the hell is “exclusitvity”? Quit making up words!
Hey netgenblackface!
http://wii.ign.com/articles/855/855570p1.html
That’s right NINTENDO is king of the rice people, BIOTCH!
nextgenuser, your comments might have some merit if the PS3 also did not suffer from games that feature much lower than advertised resolutions such as the fact that COD4 on it much like the XB360 version actually ran in 640p. How about those supposed 1080p/i games like NGS and Uncharted which according to Beyond 3D actually run in 1080×920? How about the fact that the XB360 has such a beast of a GPU that it can actually extrapolate a 720p image and scale it up to a full field 1080p resolution, something the PS3 as yet cannot do. Then there is Criterion’s damning comments on Burnout Paradise for the PS3, when recently asked why it was not in 1080p or at least be scaled into it like the XB360 version, they replied that the GPU on the PS3 is so crippling compared to the XB360′s, that if they attempted to run Burnout Paradise in 1080p/i on the PS3 that the performance of the game would of been severally crippled. Then there is that nasty fact that eveb now almost 99% of all multi-platform games still look and perform like crap on the PS3, Lost Planet anyone? Yeah, the PS3 sure is a real beast of a console, cannot even run Crap like Lost Planet correctly.
As to MGS4 being on the XB360, it may never happen but it isn’t because of hardware issues. I have seen MGS4 in action, trust me, it isn’t doing anything special graphic wise that we haven’t seen already. Hell its arguable it is even equal graphic wise to games like Uncharted and Gears of War. The only thing that would have to be changed is the audio, that is where almost all of that BD space is going, because Uncompressed LPCM eats it up quickly. They can that and MGS4 could easily fit on a DVD, and since 99% of gamers cannot use PCM anyway, I doubt they would miss it.
I have both a PS3 and a XB360, hit me up on either at methos1975, but I can honestly tell you from hands on with both that while a good BD player, the PS3 has nothing on the XB360 as a gaming platform. Unlike the PSone and PS2, it doesn’t even have a diverse game line-up. For me the PS3 offers very little this year since I despise FPS and the MGS series, and that is about all the PS3 is getting. I am looking forward to LBP, Motorstorm 2, Disgaea 3, and White Knight Story and thats about it. The XB360 on the otherhabd is stacked with the RPGs I love this year, Last Remenant( yes its on both, but with PS3′s poor track record on multi’s why bother),Infinite Undiscovery, Fable 2, Tales of Vespria, Too Human, etc and games like Halo Wars, Universe at War, Alam Wake, NG2, Banjo Tooie, etc. For me the XB360 is clearly dominating the PS3′s game line-up this year.
I think instead of playing games, nextgen should try to go to school and at least try to get some form of education. Man I just read his post again, and its like a lesson in everything your not suppose to do when writing. Run-on sentences, awkward sentence structure, misspelled words a plenty, it sounds slightly like he might be semi-retarded the way writes.
Nextgenuser is going on and on about hardware specs, while the Wii, admittedly technologically lesser than the P$3 or the 360, is kicking the P$3′s ass. Hilarious!
Games are more than pixels and anti-aliasing. And that is why the P$3 is failing.
@methos75
It’s such a shame Nextgenuser will never read that. Not that he’d understand a word of it
Why don’t you sony prostitutes realize that GOW2 is probably going to be better than MGS4? Oh, right, its for the “inferior” Xbox 360. You make me laugh. Gears of War is one of the best FPS’s out there, and the tech demo for the sequel looks awesome.
@Methos75
Couldn’t agree with you more. Well said.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/855/855633p1.html
@methos
finally someone that listens to Crash FM and that podcast comparing the 360 and the PS3 technically. Good post man. Cheers to ya!
Never listen to Crash FM, what is it? My opinions are fully what I have observed owning both.
woah misinformed idiots overload
one guy is saying the 360 has a 10mil lead (OFFICIAL FIGURES say it’s 7mil ya retard), some people STILL think MGS4 is coming to the 360 (could give you about 20 reasons why it’s not, but your beyond help anyway)
the site is a mess
@CP0
You realize that the article you posted is several months old? You also realized that the PS3, the following month, outsold the Wii in japan, right?
Quite right. Having a game so complex that only the most advanced system can play it, is a death knell. Konami will want to keep that 360 option open to avoid another silent hit.
Whether or not it will ever be on the 360, doesn’t matter. It’s not about MSG selling the PS3; it’s the other way around. Sony’s trying to remind people that the PS3 is more than just the cheapest Blu-Ray player. IT PLAYS GAMES TOO!!!
Sony’s going to go on. They’ll survive, and thrive with the money from Blu-Ray flowing in.
SCE is seeing it’s final days. Out of all the quad-billionare’s perfect kids, SCE is the cripple who gets dumped at the orphanage to keep from soiling the family image.
People forget the only reasont he 360 has sold double the number the PS3 has is because ya it was out over a full year before the PS3 came out. No one really seems to care about the over all annual sales but they see that huge lead the 360 has over the PS3, and then the even huger lead the Wii has over everyone. If the 360 came out the same year the Wii and PS3 came out you’d bet it most likely would be in dead last right now, there is not much doubt about that. Microsoft releasing it a year ahead of time, even when it didn’t have all the bugs worked out of it, seemed to paid off. It helped them get a stronger starting base of players much faster than either the Wii or the PS3, and once the PS3 and Wii came out the PS3 being the most expensive of all 3 of course hurt it for the short term, while the Wii sold like hotcakes.
@methos75
Crash FM is the Criterion Studio’s Podcast. They actually said the same thing on there podcast as they did in that article or comment that you read. If interested in hearing the podcast, I believe it’s number 15, 16, or 17.
They may be true to a point Lumina, its no secret that MS took a page from Sony’s playbook and used it to stupendous success against them. Much like the PS2 before, MS released the XB360 early enough that it was able to take the lead in both sells and developer interest before the other two were even released, and really therefore crippling the PS3 before it was even out. But that in itself doesn’t explain its much much higher software attach rate, nor does it explain how a year and a half later its still maintaining the gap between it and the PS3. What does explain this is the other side of the coin that MS ripped from Sony’s playbook, and that is maintaining a higher ratio of diversity among its game libary, and maintaining its “In cool” status among casuals and and those in the pop culture scene. The PS2 was once seen as the cool console to own, that status has now gone to the XB360, and for many that is all that really matters in the end.
@Lumina
I just spent the last 5 minutes trying to figure out what the hell you were trying to say, and when i did, i realized it’s a load of shit. When i console comes out naturally its sales will steadily decrease, so what you are going to see in the next few months is that the ps3 sales will drop then level out which is what has already happened to both the 360 and the wii.
And saying that the wii and 360 have head starts is a load of shit, it means that the ps3 can copy of there ideas, which they did in the controllers (not sure what it’s called)
Why do the ps3 fanboys have such bad grammar and spelling?
@Lumina
Unlike the PS3 when is was launched the 360 also had some really good to ok games on day one (PG3, COD2, Kameo, Gun, and PDZ). The PS3 only had ONE must have and that was Resistance and sadly it was the only really good game for a while. Also the months following the 360′s launch owners saw games such as DOA4, GRAW, Oblivion, and Full Auto. Sure not all of those games are hits but at least there was a solid title per month following the 360′s release for almost a entire year.
“its like a lesson in everything your not suppose to do when writing”
“its like”
“its”
“everything your not”
“your”
oh jeebus!
*uses own penis like a mic*
Nextgenuser! What are your opinions about the fact that the Wii is making the PS3 look like a polished turd in sales? http://www.gamespot.com/news/6186901.html
Quote: “Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is still lagging some way behind the two homegrown consoles, having sold just 14,079 units in February.”
Heh, its funny how 360 fanboys use Wii as a defense mechanism. xD
Dammit six1s, I was gonna post the same figures…
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/wii-outsells-the-ps3-4-to-1-in-japan-sony-execs-not-psyched/
The Engadget pic is so awesome
lol, bannedwagon!
Just in:
TEH BLU-RAY CANNOT HOLD TEH AWESOMENESS OF MGS4′S JAPANESE VOICEOVERS OMFG!
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/29/us-euro-mgs4-lacks-japanese-voice-over-tracks/#comments
taken from the podcast at official Konami Japan site!
http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/2008/02/000150.html
Spin this one, nextgendouche!
Just in:
TEH BLOO-RAY CANNOT HOLD TEH AWESOMENESS OF MGS4′S JAPANESE VOICEOVERS OMFG!
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/29/us-euro-mgs4-lacks-japanese-voice-over-tracks/#comments
taken from the podcast at official Konami Japan site!
http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/2008/02/000150.html
Spin this one, nextgendouche!
Just in:
TEH BRD-ROM CANNOT HOLD TEH AWESOMENESS OF NEW MGS JAPANESE VOICEOVERS OMFG!
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/29/us-euro-mgs4-lacks-japanese-voice-over-tracks/#comments
taken from the podcast at official Konami Japan site!
http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/2008/02/000150.html
Just in:
TEH BLOO-RAY CANNOT HOLD TEH AWESOMENESS OF MGS4′S JAPANESE VOICEOVERS OMFG!
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/29/us-euro-mgs4-lacks-japanese-voice-over-tracks/#comments
taken from the podcast at official Konami Japan site!
http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/2008/02/000150.html
Spin this one, nextgenuser!
i mean its only 500 dollers thats cheap right
“Ryan Payton has confirmed in the latest Kojima Productions podcast that the European and American versions of Metal Gear Solid 4 will not have the Japanese voice tracks. Likewise, the Japanese version of the game will not have any English voice tracks either. –This is apparently down to a lack of space on the Blu-Ray disc due to the large amount of story in the game.”–
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/29/us-euro-mgs4-lacks-japanese-voice-over-tracks/
I guess blu-ray isn’t all what’s cracked up to be.
@ PC FTW
I thought it was quite understandable. You should read yours again before complaining about other people’s typing issues. My fingers move not with my mouth. Hense more typos than one could conserve. hehe
@ ColdYellow *the link/artical*
A majority of games world wide only support 1 language and at most 1. Normally Europe is the only major place that a game supports multipal languages. Some Japanese games have english and japanese, almost no American games are in any other language but english. Not really something to complain about like wise. Unless the english voice work is worse than DragonBall Z then there shouldn’t be any worry. lol
Oh ya Yellow about you’re post reply to mine earlier, any of those games worth getting? I know GRAW was nice, but i found GRAW 2 much better still. Resistence? I found that my least liked first wave PS3 game, how was that considered good? Though multiplayer was fun on it, single player was a Halo style bore fest, one reason I didn’t care for it much, though some of the weapons were more joyful than most Halo weapons, definity the air fuel grenade which was like a Plazma on steriods, not just kill the enemy but everything in the path of gas he leaves behind has well. hehe
I believe is for those that don’t have ps3′s so they can get one with Metal Gear solid 4 on it. I have the game pre-order already we all know the ps3 is going to sell more when the game comes out i’m thinking about getting the psp with the GOW game on it and i already have a psp.
@lumina
Actually I think you missed the point of the article. The point being is that alot of PS3 “fanboys” brag about the storage capacity of a blu-ray disc and now you got someone from Konami saying there isn’t enough space on the disc (I betting they are using a single layer not dual layer disc).
What I said earlier was that there was at least a steady stream of ok to good games (worth buying) for the 360 months after launch. I know that RFOM isn’t everyone’s first pick ( I enjoyed the 2hours that I spent with it) but it’s hard to argue that was the highest rated PS3 game for quite a while.
@PS3UP
Still haven’t learned proper grammer have you? “I believe is for those that don’t have ps3’s” ummmm… why would you buy another PS3 if you got a couple of them already? At least the good thing about Hans is that he actually can make a sentence readable; you on the other hand NEED to either type slower and think it out, or go back to school and learn to read.
ok we all know msg4 is gonna sell alot but its not gonna trounce the 360 ok with ninja gaiden 2 GEARS OF WAR 2 and halo wars the 360 is still gonna have a great lineup and the only reason i would ever get a ps3 is for a ff7 remake and for the psp crisis core looks great
Ninja Gaiden 1 sold poorly and Gears 1 only sold well because it was the first next-gen looking title and it had no competition in 2006.
@coldyellow: I think you mean “uncompressed audio is a bitch for space”
also hans, gears was awesome, fuck off.
So, Hans, you’re saying that Resistance wasn’t a competitor? I remember everyone bitching back and forth between Gears and Resistance, and which one was better. Well, apparently, Gears won with no contest, according to you. How about that.
@Hans
I would consider Resistance to be Gears competition. Also if Ninja Gaiden sold poorly then why is there 2 remakes and a sequal?
know this is old but
@coldyellow:
you said “I would love for bioshock to go multiplatform, because then wii and ps3 owners could experience such a kickass game”
they all should have the means to play system shock 2, which is ahead of bioshock in everything except graphics, so that’s not particularly an issue.
Hans shut the fuck up gears was a kick ass game thats why it won 30 awards and gears 2 will be even better than the first one and yes resestance could be gears comp since the first 1 was good number 2 should be good also
Hans hates those games because they do not have aryan protagonists.
Why don’t you sony prostitutes realize that GOW2 is probably going to be better than MGS4? Oh, right, its for the “inferior†Xbox 360. You make me laugh. Gears of War is one of the best FPS’s out there, and the tech demo for the sequel looks awesome.
@animekid
Hell yeah I agree with you on System Shock 2 all the way and maybe the first one should also have a facelift as well. I just used Bioshock since it’s one of last years best games (but noway as good as System shock 2 though.) and it was only for 2 platforms.
they should release an official XP patch for system shock 2 already, it’s getting annoying looking around gamecopyworld every time I decide to play it again.
@animekid
Or they need to release it on XBLA and PSN. Unfortunatly my copy of it is lost since I moved into my house and I can’t find it anywhere.
An XP patch? What operating system did it run on before? You DO know that XP has built-in emulation software for all previous versions of windows, right?
@DaPWNz0r: was originally either win95 or win98.
and yeah, it does have emulation, unfortunately, that doesn’t work with SS2 and people are forced to look for unofficial XP patches to just get it working, then wade through forums and tutorials to get rid of stupid bugs (eg. inventory dragging not working, random freezing due to multiple core CPU problems, etc.0
@coldyellow
While it is disappointing how MGS4 will only support one language in contrast to the claims about the BD’s disk storage, you basically just provided proof that this game will NEVER end up on the 360. If they can just barely squeeze it in a 25GB (single layer) blu-ray disk, then there’s no way in hell they’ll squeeze it down to 9gb.
@Praetorian_Man
Who says it has to be on a single dvd? It’s the “story” that took up the space on the disk. Sure they would have to optimize it for the 360, but I never provided you proof of the game will not be on the 360.
A perfect example is SpiderMan3 on blu-ray. You get 2 disc’s, one for the movie and the other for special features. WTF is up with that?
@Praetorian_man
The uncompressed audio for the rich SOBs who have 7.1 audio systems took up most of the disk space….
Oh, and @nextgendouche
YOU ARE A DOUCHE!
@360UP
amusingly, you bashed your own console without realizing it
if MGS4 fills up a dual-layer Blu-Ray disk which holds 50gb of data, then that doesn’t really make the future look bright for the 360 and it’s DVD9, which misleadingly doesn’t even hold 9gb of data- somewhere in the region of 8.5 actually
some of you 360 fanboy’s are just freaking hilarious
@sosolidsnake
Well it sounds like or haven’t stated (konami) didn’t even mention what kind of blu-ray disc there using. I’m betting there using a single layer disc. Since they’re not even adding the the japanese language track, only the american. Also they stated the disc was almost full in the article.
some of you PS3 owners are just freaking dumb.
multiple disks are perfectly fine for PC games, and are acceptable for movies. However, for console gaming they are, at the very least, a hindrance. Unless there is some sort of install feature so you’ll only end up needing one of the disks to play, having multiple disks would be horrible. Sure, it’s possible and has been done before, but who honestly wants to have to change the disk once just to get through the storyline, and then again for the multiplayer? While I guess it isn’t a lethal issue, it would definitely suck and everyone here knows it.
Coldyellow, the spiderman 3 issue was probably the result of the movie manufacturer being too lazy to modify the original disk, and just decided to throw in an extra one. I doubt it was due to size constraints, although it is equally likely that they just sucked at compressing.
Also worth mentioning. MGS fanboys are [for the most part] Sony fanboys. The only MGS titles to be released on the Xbox and GC, last I checked, actually sold quite poorly, although that could also be because there are only 20 million gamecubes out there and the Xbox has no support from Japan. But that was a moot point; the 360 has no japanese support either, and MGS4 will NEVER be on the Wii (you might get a spinoff). Kojima knows that their strongest support comes from the Sony fanbase, and it sure as hell doesn’t come from the Microsoft fanbase. It’s really hardly worth their time and money to port; no units will be moved in Japan, there is considerably less interest in the title from the MS camp than the Sony camp, and it would ultimately be an inferior version anyways (so its hardly going to sell 360′s in japan). Besides, the Japanese value reliability in the products they buy.
Metal gear. the game look so good and those games are allways good i dont see why this one would be different. and yes this game is going to make alot of people buy ps3s
about the blu ray…
everyone know lair? you know, the game about as shit as dragon’s lair?
the uses up 25 gig…
yup, lair uses up a full blu ray disc.
you see, what developers do, is span data across the disc to decrease load times.
an example:
you are on a circle, a massive circle, your objective is at the other side, you go over there to get it, and you get it within seconds, that’s dvd.
you are on a blu circle, the circle is much MUCH bigger than the dvd circle, your objective is still at the other side, but, instead of making you walk incredibly slow to your objective, there are copies of the objective scattered around the circle, and one is close enough to you that you get it in about 10 seconds.
that’s what most ps3 games do…
@Praetorian_Man:
“the Japanese value reliability in the products they buy.”
yeah, that’s why so many ps2′s were sold over there…
oh, wait, hang on a second.
the japanese love the ps3 and wii, but hate the 360.
ps3, wii, 360
japan, japan, america.
see a pattern here?
http://kotaku.com/362807/kojima-says-blu+ray-disc-doesnt-have-enough-space
Kojima(your god) says that there isn’t enough space on Blu-gay!
Wait. The PS3 actually plays games? When did this start? I thought it was just a cheap Blue Ray player….
Man, what a lame idea. Why would you want to store a game on a Blue Ray disc? It takes soooo long to pull information off of it… Must be why mandatory downloads are becoming the new thing on the PS3 huh?
@animekid
It comes to a point when a system’s rate of failure reaches 20% that smart people stop buying it. The people here in America, evidently, aren’t that smart. We even elected a retard as president for 8 years!
@Praetorian_Man
But there is a time when people look at system and say $400-600 dollars, i’m not paying that much to play games. Sony though we would pay that amount and they where wrong. But we did elect a retard for a president.
@Praetorian_Man:
that’s not my point, japan went crazy for the least reliable console last time around, and now they justify their current ps3 ownership with it’s reliability.
and disgaea 3, can’t forget disgaea 3.
Enough people bought the 360 at $400, so that seems to be the ceiling of practical pricing. The ps3 does fit this ceiling, and future price cuts are inevitable. So that is largely a temporary issue. There is still the whole “cheap blu-ray player” deal too. The ps2 may have been the least reliable of all 3 systems, but its reliability issues were never has bad as they are on the 360. Also, Xbox had few games that appealed to the Japanese and the GC had few games at all.
@Praetorian_Man
But MS can undercut sony by dropping the price of the 360 if they drop there price along with sony and it would still be cheaper than the PS3.
I can atest to the reliablity of the PS2 I had a launch console. Not even a year later I was getting disc read errors and I remember a class action lawsuit was filed (though i didn’t hear about it untill a few years and new PS2 later).
Not saying the 360 is the greatest hardware but hell at least my first one lasted a year and half.
Lets see. Resident Evil4, relased for game cube, the better version was for game cube. The Play Station only got it because the bawwwwwed about it so they got a crappy version. Sony is so out of touch with the world it hurts, charging $500 for a system (no matter how good) is just insane! Seriously Sony, get your shit together. Oh, and Wii still wins.
Hey karlius you do realize xbox sold 24 million from 01 to 06- ps2 has sold over 100 million
Looking at the upcoming line up of games, the ps3 will outsell the 360 in 08 and 09 with hitters that have not even been mentioned but taunted Like TWISTED METAL for ps3…. and GOD OF WAR, and for a company that charges for THEMES on there Xbox live, has a 33% failure rate have only Gears of war 2 up there sleeve, it is ridicule to think that they will win this console war … and were not mentioning the fact that HOME will come out and we have to conclude the obvious , that theres over 100 million loyal Sony users , i think more than half are FINAL FANTASY fans and trust me FF13 “new franchise” is exclusive for the ps3 , FF series never sold even slightly good on the Xb0x platform…
and i have make notice ” what are all those HDMI equipped 360′s going to play ? HD-DVD Failed … it even has a standard DVD’s opt for games u will never see a game in 1080 hdmi ” it just does not fit ” … and they still lie to their children’s fan base by saying WE HAVE GOOD COMPRESSION yada, yada … microsoft will regret giving sony bad PR to succeed int his console war..
“Uh Oh 360 Hide Your BabiEz ! Its coming !