MGS 4 – 360?

Well, it’s not going to happen, according to this article on Games Radar.

For the lazy, here’s a summary (with some comments by me):
1. Konami has firmly said it won’t
-multiple times
- -however that really doesn’t mean anything nowadays
2. Blu-ray wasn’t big enough
-Kojima’s beeen quoted as saying that blu-ray wasn’t big enough for his vision of the game
- -blu-ray = 50gb : double layer dvd = 8gb
- – -lots of disc swapping, though that hardly seems a compelling reason to not port
3. It’s packed with references to the PS3
-from the six-axis used to control the tiny metal gear thing to in game references and a psp
- -woopdeedoo? either they’d be a)changed or b)kept and no one would care
4. Sony needs exclusives right now
-true
- -but does Konami really care?
5. Why start now?
-mgs 1 helped make the ps1
- -good point, but still, does Konami really care?

I’m still pooling my money in the camp that it’s not going to be ported, but these reasons are a bit flimsy. Interesting enough read though.

Off topic: Why can’t I do a double hyphen ( – )? It eats one up. If I do three it appears as two. Something to do with HTML that I’ve never heard of or just WP?
- (<–one)
– (<–two)
— (<–three)

Oh and on another off topic subject, I’m coming home tomorrow! Might be hitting SF for the weekend but after that I’ll be in town for a few weeks before school starts. Anyone home or going to come home for a weekend or something (looking at you Joe)? Really want to have a bbq or something or just hang out and play some games or frisbee. Brandon, you’re in Scotland aren’t you? I got stuck with my old gig, the one you had awesomely taken the last few years (Chaddar). Gah, I’ll be all alone too I think!

Boughter at 9:56 am on Wednesday, August 6, 2008

4 Comments

Comment by joe

August 6, 2008 @ 10:52 am

The dash thing is definitely WP. I turn it off on my own blog because when I want an em dash I’ll write &mdash darnit.

Comment by Boughter

August 6, 2008 @ 3:45 pm

heh, gotchya. thanks for the info.

Comment by dylan

August 7, 2008 @ 2:36 pm

It would be too bad to miss out on mgs4 but I’m not buying a ps3. I can see the disc swapping being a problem if the game plays anything like mgs2 where the player would run around pretty much one giant level (the tanker).

Comment by Boughter

August 8, 2008 @ 8:02 am

aah good point cano.

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