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Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3)
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You are exactly right that my PS3 price cut is speculative. However, historically it is very common for a game system to get a price cut after about a year of sales.
As for your idea of a graphically reduced version of MGS4 for the Wii, pure nonsense. However a complete side story like MGS: Portable Ops for the Wii is something I'm sure Konami will do.
As for sales, MSG4 will be coming out around the same time as Final Fantasy XIII. FFXII is an exclusive which means it will move PS3 systems. How many people's first PS1 game was FFVII? How many systems did that push? What about FFX and the PS2? If history is any indicator, FFXIII will move PS3s, and MSG4 will most likely be the 2nd or 3rd game these gamers pick-up.
Lastly, there is a cultural reason why MGS4 will be out on the PS3 long before a XBOX360 port, if any port. It's the same reason why only 1 out of 24 Metal Gear titles have been released on a Microsoft product. When it comes to video games, it is a part of Japanese pride. Japan has produced the leading systems for the past 4 generations. The PS3 fits better into the Japanese lifestyle compared to the XBOX360. Sales in Japan prove this, as it took the PS3 two months what took the XBOX360 15 months to obtain in total sales. Just as the PS3 and Wii are important for the pride of Japan, Metal Gear Solid has become a very important brand-name for Konami. Of course Konami will produce Metal Gear Games for the Wii and PS3, because its good for Japan. Will they produce one for the XBOX360? Only if money becomes an issue.
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Thanks Joe80.
To be quite honest it looks like they just toned down the lighting (which, in my opinion, didn't exactly make it look better) and made things a little blurrier. I'm disappointed.
Also, notice in the second to last shot the PLAYSTATION 3 logo is no longer there... Xbox 360 version seems very likely now.
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I think in this case Jess has a right to be mad & to have posted what he did, or something almost as heated... His earlier post was clearly him trying to provide help for SE users and it has 4 downbids? (his post 6:43 pm june 6th). Jess its best to just let it go, I've been quite mad a few times myself with some things on the SE but I learned that its best to take it with a grain of salt and not comment on it usually.
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Lithium posted on Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3) at 1:01AM PST on June 7, 2007. RE: E306 Revamped Enhanced Trailerhttp://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/06/06/incredible-new-metal-gear-solid-4-trailer-will-make-you-cry-in-e/
The above link is for the same vid... the main link was not loading the video for me.
So try this one instead if it wont load for you. Also this one has no ad to watch at the beginning.
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Sorry Jess, I submitted an article with the same trailer which you had submitted. I checked all recent articles, all recent MGS4 articles, and then I went to check MGS4 videos before posting it. When I realized I could not edit MGS4 videos by most recent I went ahead and posted the article. I should've looked through each & every video to fully check, but I thought there would be pages of videos I would have to sift through, my bad. Can you guys also give Jess some upbids too.
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Joe80 posted on Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3) at 7:42PM PST on June 6, 2007. RE: Updated & remastered MGS 4 Trailer
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Exclusives don't always move consoles. The Gamecube for example. Capcom took a huge risk and made several exclusives for the system (including the Resident Evil remakes and number 4) but it didn't take and most ended up being ported. Exclusives do help sell a console (I'm not saying they don't) but they can't turn around a system's entire momentum. Besides, I wouldn't think that FF and MGS have a huge crossover in audiences.
1 in 24? You're in hyperbole territory. Only 3 Metal Gear titles have been out on home consoles (the only medium MS is in) since MS hit the scene and 1 of them was on the XBox (the second last and another was a Nintendo exclusive remake). Not that bad of a ratio.
A company has to look at this from a sales point of view. Even if the PS3 sells twice as many units over the next 6 months as it has been (and it won't), its sales will still be small. Konami is looking at taking a HUGE loss on this title judging by its production values. They'll have to make that up somewhere and delaying it to do a simultaneous release on the 360 in order to make some more cash in Europe and N.America might take a bit of the sting out. Considering that right now (and for the foreseeable future) there are more than twice as many 360s out there, it's impossible for Konami to ignore.
For the record, I think a Wii project would be their best bet (I would personally love even a MGS3 remake) but a 360 port of MGS4 would be faster and probably more cost effective.