Konami teases green “A Next Metal Gear” message

Nintendo DS, I reckon

Dammit. I’m selling a 360 and buying a PS3, and of course MGS4 and Kojima games are a major factor in this. If he comes out with an exclusive Metal Gear 360 I’m going to be quite angry -___- That led is identical to Xbox 360 one’s.

Yeah in the Avatars thing in the NXE, there’s a T-Shirt with the self same power symbol you can wear.

Yeah, MGS to the 360 for sure.

Actually I’ve been told that symbol is equally present on PS3…And when powered, it’s green. A little less to worry, for now at least.

The 360 power symbol lights up green. The PS3′s doesn’t, an LED infront of the symbol lights up.

But then what’s the first symbol? “i”?? What might *that* represent?

DSi?
iPhone?

W i i ?

It’s a universal power symbol – it’s on everything. Green is a little telling though.

Incidentally on the 360 the symbol is only that way up when the machine is upright.

How about a new MS handheld – iXbox.

Will run MGS4 and will get around the exclusivity deal Sony have by being released on a handheld and not the 360

/wild stabs in the dark

It’s 360. Rather obviously.

I own a PS3 and when MGS came out i was very excited.
In the end i didn’t even complete it because the ‘game’ is tosh so by all means let it get ported to Xbox so they can experience massive disappointment too.

It’s a remake of Metal Gear Solid 1, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 for the Xbox 360.

“KONAMI ANNOUNCES KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS TEAM FOR XBOX 360
Two Blockbuster Titles Already Under Development

OSAKA – Konami Digital Entertainment – Japan, a division of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced a new, exclusive for the Xbox 360 gameconsole, development team will be formed inside Konami Corporation. On January 11, 2007, Konami Corporation merged and consolidated its group companies. Accordingly, former Konami Computer Entertainment Japan East Team, lead by creator Hideo Kojima (Corporate Officer, Konami Corporation), embarks on a new era as “Kojima X Productions” inside Konami Corporation.

The newly formed Kojima “X” Productions is proud to announce that Metal Gear Solid: Triology is currently in development for the XBOX®360 ( X360 ) next-generation computer entertainment system from Microsoft ( MS ). Metal Gear Solid: Trilogy will be a remake of three Hideo Kojima’s masterpieces. Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. The Metal Gear Solid series, is highly acclaimed worldwide, with its breathtaking graphics, profound stories, intricate human drama, original game design and superlative gameplay. Also under development is one other exciting game in the Metal Gear series — Metal Gear Solid: Fluid Ac!d for the Microsoft Zune media player.

Updates regarding Kojima Productions will be posted periodically on the following website: Kojima Productions Official Homepage: http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/.

About Konami Corporation
Konami Corporation is a leading developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties, specializing in the home video game market. Konami Corporation’s action and adventure titles include the popular franchises Metal Gear Solid®, Silent Hill® and Castlevania®, among other top sellers. The latest information about Konami can be found on the Web at http://www.konami.com. Konami Corporation is a publicly traded company based in Tokyo, Japan with subsidiary offices, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. in the US and Konami of Europe in Frankfurt, Germany. Konami Corporation, the parent company of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. is traded in the United States on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol KNM. Details of the products published by Konami Digital Entertainment – America can be found at http://www.konami.com/gs.”

Okay, fuck RE5 or KZ2, these are the games to have for 09.

Huh. Do they actually want them? Won’t most 360 owners have played these already? Surely a new bore-athon would be more appropriate?

“Okay, fuck RE5 or KZ2, these are the games to have for 09.”
lulz. You’re kidding, right?

Where’s that from, Johnny?

Edit: Ah

Well that’s crap.

Never completed the 3rd one (didn’t have the subsistence/non-crigged camera version) so interesting.

Hang about. Most 360 owners have been dismissing the earlier Metal Gear Solid games as not really worth playing for most of the last 18 month. Surely they’re not going to give a damn for these games just because they pop up on their system years after the originals were released?

/checks Kojima’s twitter

I wouldn’t believe that. It’s from GAF

Actually the wording in that press release does sound a bit ‘made up’.

Edit: And the punctuation’s off. Always a give-away.

The word “Zune” gives it away.

That press release was confirmed fake.

Like I said, it’s bollocks, anyone who was taken in by it for a second is clearly an idiot!!!

I remember that whole “Triology” thing the first time it was done. It was classic fake news.

Guh *facepalm* that had my hopes up =(

Sorwee

“Okay, fuck RE5 or KZ2, these are the games to have for 09.”
lulz. You’re kidding, right?

Like said above but if it was real, no, I wouldnt be. I am a diehard Metal Gear fanatic and this would be much better then both combined (and thats rich ocnsidering the timing of this as I am downloading the RE5 demo and I sneakingly got the Killzone 2 beta last night)

I already bought the trilogy when it got re-released as a $20 PS2 bundle earlier this year. Classic stuff!

Probably some dumbed down special edition missions a la substance for the original Xbox, then.

It’ll be the main game and some extra stuff.

Just to put that PR to bed: http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/rumor-smash-kojima-making-exclusive-xbox-games-228233.php

Fake press releases aside, I am inclined to think it’s a continuation of the ACiD series, which would explain the i.

Also the green colour, yeah.

But it’s 360. Gotta be.

I’m actually inclined to agree, ACiD reinvented for the XBox (possibly as a Live Marketplace item?) would seem very likely.

ACiD for XBLA, maybe?

If I’m honest, the most likely scenario is the most obvious one: MGS4 360. I’d be surprised if it was anything else, however likely.

Oh, snap!

Yes indeed, we think alike!

I know that MGS4 for the 360 is probably really quite desired (even if it was amazingly boring, pretty, but boring), but I’m actually hoping it’s ACiD. Truth be told, ACiD is more interesting than MGS4. :p

AC!D does sound right seeing as explanation marks are its trade-mark sybol.

“I know that MGS4 for the 360 is probably really quite desired ”

Indeed, it would be very cool but how much would have to be cut out tho? It packed the Blue-Ray close to full.

It’s “A next metal gear” though, not a previous one.

Hilarious how much people read into that little rebus, especially on n4g, as usual.

Acid is a good call.

And “Metal Gear” is not precisely the same as “Metal Gear Solid” as pedants of the series will appreciate.

It only filled the bluray up because the audio was completely uncompressed.

And it was rubbish.

“It only filled the bluray up because the audio was completely uncompressed”

Can you even cite a source for that? :/

I seem to remember Hideo himself saying that the textures were too large for the disc, and that he was dissatisfied with the capacity of Blu-ray because he couldn’t put photo-realistic textures into the game, and the texture sizes had to be chopped down to just barely fit on the disc.

I’ll see if I can find that quote…

Edit: I can’t come across that now, I might have read it in OPM. I remember one source pressed him on exactly which resource was too big for the Blu-ray, and his answer was something like the above. I might be wrong though, and I did a lot of searching, but all I could find was that Kojima said that the Blu-ray was too small (no reason given) and they had to decide what to compress.

It didn’t fill the disc anyway, and the audio isn’t uncompressed. We’ve done this to death a number of times.

I doubt it, some of the texturework was of an uncomfortably low resolution, though I might be completely wrong. MGS is really not a series for me, I’ve tried to love each and every one of them, but it’s just not happening.

@psychotext – yeah, best not go through it all again. It’s a fine entry in the metal gear solid series, love it or otherwise.

I’m not a graphics programmer (thank god)… but wouldn’t the amount of memory on the PS3 be a bigger issue with regard to large textures than the amount of space on the blu-ray?

The PS3 only has to cache the relevant textures for what it’s rendering, whereas the blu-ray would have to hold every single texture the game uses, ready to be cached. Different definitions of memory.

Anyway. I’m interested to see if this does pan out to be some kind of 360 release.

Hmm … you’re probably right, PT. I don’t have enough to say either way, so I apologise for bringing it up.

I just took umbrage at the way Morrius’s complaint was formed, I suppose. I may be a bit bored by MGS, but it was a technical marvel, and something for Kojima and his team to be proud of. The complaint made them sound incompetent, so I chimed in defensively.

Stop it, guys! You’ll set Shatner off.

It was a technical marvel in many ways. I don’t think it was a very good game though. Still, I liked the parallel between Snakes acceptance of his increasing irrelevance, and the lessened importance of Japanese game development.

I thought everything about MGS4 was perfect. I enjoyed it all, graphics to gameplay to multiplayer. Wonderful.

Yes Blerk, I spent a lot of time correcting people’s unfamiliarity with game textures, compression, compression artefacts, rendering and whatnot last time this topic was raised in mock authoritative tones.

And if anyone had paid the slightest bit of attention they’d have appreciated the need for repeated textures of varying (L)evels (O)f (D)etail to be stored on the disc. LODding is invisible to most people when its done properly but it’s significant use of disc space whether you’re aware of its benefits and presence or not.

Anyway, I’ve decided that if the last symbol in the cryptic image was in red there’d be no mystery whatsoever.