Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | 20:38 BST

Konami “actively looking” at MGS4 on 360

Japanese investment research firm MorningStar has published a paper from TGS quoting a Konami rep saying the firm is looking at moving MGS4 to 360.

We did actually tell you about this in July, but there we are.

“We’re actively looking into a release for the Xbox 360,” the spokesperson apparently said.

Obviously, this sort of flies in the face of Hideo Kojima’s constant claims that the game isn’t possible on the Microsoft machine because it doesn’t have Blu-ray.

We’ll put it another way: “Would you like $500 million, Konami and Microsoft?”

38 comments

DaMan
14/10/08, 8:46 pm

Impossible. this game has to be completely redone for x360.

who was that spokesperson, Greenberg in disguise?

Psychotext
14/10/08, 9:31 pm

Completely re-done? Hell, they even split up the game into disc sized chunks ready for the 360.

Robo_1
14/10/08, 9:38 pm

Even if this is true, the fact that they’re only “looking at it” now, would suggest any sort of release would be at least a year away, and that’s being generous.

Fair play really, the game has done pretty much all it’s going to do for PS3, and by the time it does come out on 360, PS3 will be getting stuff like God of War 3 and Uncharted 2, so I think it’s status as a “system seller” will be greatly reduced, whilst enabling it to reach a wider audience. Although if anyone remembers MGS2 hitting Xbox, the quality of the port will certainly be thrown into question.

Psychotext
14/10/08, 9:46 pm

I doubt the original will ever hit the 360, maybe MGS4: Succulent or whatever.

ecu
14/10/08, 9:52 pm

They kinda missed the boat though, didn’t they? Nobody will care about it, just as how nobody cares about the PS3 getting year old 360 games.

DaMan
14/10/08, 10:13 pm

MGS4 isn’t just a ‘year old game’..

anyway, I call bullshit.

mortiferus
14/10/08, 10:15 pm

Anything is possible, besides all the the uncompressed audio/video can be compressed or reworked. In game engine-wise it it definitively doable on 360. But honestly after playing it, ahhh I’m just indifferent to it. It really did not draw me in.

Psychotext
14/10/08, 11:12 pm

Audio wasn’t uncompressed in MGS4. Was just standard Dolby.

Soong
15/10/08, 6:58 am

Meh. Over-hyped, disappointing game. I fell asleep during the final cutscenes, they went on and on FOREVER and it was sooo BORING.

#10

Tonka
15/10/08, 7:37 am

The game is already split up in disc sized chunks isn’t it? Instead of taking a nap while the PS3 is installing stuff to your HDD you get up and swap discs.

I bet the 360 version will be faster, prettier and have working on-line gameplay from day one. Bet it will sell more to.

#11

Blerk
15/10/08, 8:21 am

Are the people here who are saying it’d be too little too late buying Bioshock on Friday?

#12

David
15/10/08, 8:26 am

@Blerk: If you’ve never played bioshock before then get it. But most people have so the extra content just seems pointless.

#13

Blerk
15/10/08, 8:29 am

You miss my point, I think.

#14

David
15/10/08, 8:31 am

Didn’t really see a point to your post unless you were referring to a post above you.

#15

Shatner
15/10/08, 8:49 am

His point was about hypocrisy. And if you, by your own admission, didn’t really see it then Blerk’s claim about you missing his point is correct.

I love the reaction to stories of PS3 stuff potentially heading to 360. The u-turn in attitude to whether the thing in question was any good is always hilarious.

Also: Bioshock is average at best.

#16

Tonka
15/10/08, 8:49 am

You are both wrong.

#17

David
15/10/08, 9:00 am

@Shatner: We know you don’t like bioshock but I don’t think many people have said MGS4 was crap…….

Just the same with regards to LBP I don’t know any 360 owner I actively talk to that has said its crap. Most are interested in getting PS3′s for it.

#18

ecu
15/10/08, 9:00 am

Are the people here who are saying it’d be too little too late buying Bioshock on Friday?

No, I played it a year ago on the 360.

#19

morriss
15/10/08, 9:04 am

Shatner is average at best.

#20

Shatner
15/10/08, 9:07 am

I liked Bioshock enough to complete it. But it was all smoke and mirrors. The actual gameplay was paper thin, themeatically it was broken, the setting was underused but most people were distracted by the art-deco smoke and mirrors and enjoyed the game. Good for them. Second coming of narrative gaming? No.

Many people have said MGS4 was crap. In my experience they’ve generally been detractors the the series anyway. Which is fair enough. Franchise installments don’t often go out of their way to radically change things in order to scoop up new fans. (Although, to be fair, MGS3′s cold-war gadgets were interesting and cool and the FF series usually makes one or two significant core mechanic changes each iteration).

Franchise installments are pretty much: If you like this sort of thing then this is the sort of thing you will like.

I love whole absurd/serious yin/yang-ness of MGS so I’m happy with MGS4.

I wonder if they’d have legal/licensing issues with running the flashback at the start of Act 4 on a non-Sony platform though. Heh.

#21

Shatner
15/10/08, 9:10 am

And after I call you ‘special’ morriss?

Aww.

#22

morriss
15/10/08, 9:10 am

I wasn’t easily fooled by Bioshock, I loved it for what it was. I love the MGS series too, and heartily agree with those who say it wasn’t that great.

#23

Shatner
15/10/08, 9:13 am

Hmm. I refer you back to your “adequate reasoning” claim of a few days ago.

Not that you’ll ever be right about MGS, of course. But just as a way of underlining your wrongness in red, so to speak.

#24

morriss
15/10/08, 9:18 am

I thought it was laboured and hackneyed for the most part. It was MGS HD. Pretty much the same as people criticised Halo 3 for: it was fan(boy) service. Nothing revolutionary apart from the camo-system, which was very cool indeed.

#25

Shatner
15/10/08, 9:21 am

That camo system was a dumbed down version of what was in MGS3.

As for laboured and hackneyed. Those are MGS traditions.

Still, it’ll be awesome on 360, I’m sure.

#26

morriss
15/10/08, 9:26 am

See? Fan(boy) service. An excuse and reason for every negative.

And of course, the 360 version will be superior in every respect.

#27

Shatner
15/10/08, 9:38 am

Fan(boy) service? I refer you to my observations on franchise installments in videogames as standard.