TGS ’08: Metal Gear Solid 4 to Xbox 360 Gains Ground
- Scribbled on October 14th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Action, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rumor Mill, Tokyo Game Show
It’s The Rumor That Won’t Die, even more so than those confounded “Blu-Ray 360″ rumors.
IGN is reporting :
According to a Tokyo Game Show report from Japanese investment research firm Morningstar, Metal Gear Solid 4 may find its way to the Xbox 360 after all. Morningstar published a general article covering multiplatform trends that features a quote from a Konami public relations representative that should fuel rumors for months to come. The rep is quoted as saying, regarding MGS4, “We’re actively looking into a release for the Xbox 360.” While this isn’t a confirmation of it coming, it does lend hope to those Xbox 360 owners who haven’t plunked down money on a PS3.
However, this little quote doesn’t clear the major hurdle Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has listed for the title coming to Xbox 360. He has been quoted in several interviews saying a port was likely impossible due to the game being optimized for the PS3 hardware, specifically Blu-ray discs.
Of course, multi-disc games are no stranger to the Xbox 360 (see: Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and so on), and the New Xbox Experience’s option to install games to the hard drive may allow a “HD Required” tag to be posted on the game – after all, Shivering Isles has that tag.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
With the 4 minute installs on the ps3 version, it seems like a nobrainer to me that they could split it easily into multiple discs. Any PS3 references could either be removed or replaced with something else, a ps3 controller with either an xbox or a generic gamepad. I think that it already has an iPod vs the Sony Walkman MP3. (I remember the days the Sony Walkman tape player was as popular as the iPod.)
It won’t be an extremely easy conversion, but I think the conversion costs would be far less than the revenue they would make with a xbox release (They could even release MSG 1 on Xbox Live Arcade for a bit more money, port the PC version they made years ago over.)
I’m still betting on a version of MGS 4 for the xbox being announced after it has been out on the ps3 for at least a year.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I’m pretty sure there’s a PC version coming regardless, and since the Xbox 360 is a DX console, too…