It is quite obvious that is Microsoft pretty keen on getting a huge title like Metal Gear Solid 4 onto the Xbox 360.
MCV UK reports that Xbox Live boss John Schappert has said that he would “love to see the game come to 360” and the went on about the machines “horsepower”. This comes after Yoshitaka Arai apparently told a Japanese paper that “The worldwide demand for an Xbox 360 version of MGS4 is quite high, and it is something we are currently looking in to.â€
I think that if Konami doesn’t do it then they are fools. More after the jump.
Why wouldn’t Konami release it for Xbox 360, especially if Microsoft is actually right and the machine can handle the demands of the games engine. The way I see it, the exclusivity has done it’s job. Many PS3’s were sold and everyone at Sony is happy. So why not release the game to an entire market of gamers who want nothing more than to play the game.
It makes perfect business sense and will almost literally double the sales of the game, if not more when they open it up to a new market.
Exclusives are starting to get on my nerves. Look at Bioshock, it is now being released on PS3 a year after the Xbox 360 version and those developers and publishers can look forward to a huge amount of sales for a lot less effort than it would require to completely build another game.
source: mscvuk
Last Updated: October 17, 2008
darthdad
October 17, 2008 at 10:20
So now when Otacon asks you to put in disc two, you will have to! 😀 They will have to edit out quite a bit. And possibly remove the PS3 and PSP from Sunny’s room.
I think it will be great if the 360 gets this game. The more people that experience this the better. It’s a great game.
PaasHaas
October 17, 2008 at 10:43
I would have loved to be able to confidently tell it wont ever be on 360… but sadly I cant.
But if they bring it to the 360 they will probably wait for “subsistance” version or whatever they will call it this time.
Macethy
October 17, 2008 at 11:11
Honestly can’t be bothered about this.Will be out ATLEAST Nov ’09 so it will be long forgotten by then.Would be faster for me to borrow my friends PS3 and play it,so whatever. . .
Macethy
October 17, 2008 at 11:13
Yeah I can definatly see this game needing a mandatory install
Scotty777
October 17, 2008 at 12:22
if this game use most of the 25/50 gig’s of data on the ps3. then how many dvd’s will it put on? and I heard that M$ change the game manufactures x amount per disk!
David
October 18, 2008 at 09:11
I played the game on my PS3 and it was an awesome game but after finishing it Twice in one week I bored of it.
David
October 18, 2008 at 09:12
I even Solid I mean Sold it two weeks after getting it to use the money towards Far Cry 2
Wesley
October 20, 2008 at 08:00
I dont see this coming to the X360 just dont see it at all, even if world demand is at an all time high, even when it was launched . Every X360 owner including me hoped and prayed for it to go multi platform.
But lets face it its gonna take too much work recreating the dialogue. Remap the controls and even compression it that it works on atleast 3 discs… Does FF13 ring anybells.
And lets say it does eventaully release on the X360, people would’ve forgotten about it and allready bought a PS3 anyways.
Its good to see M$ is actually seeing into they’re customers demands. But they should of nailed this little money making franchise while the iron was still hot