Microsoft: Go Ask Konami If 'Metal Gear Solid 4' Is Xbox-Bound

Bubble Buddy - 520 days 4 hours ago

I still trust Sony that they know what they're doing.

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cmrbe - 520 days 4 hours ago

because they are run by fanboys themselves. This guy, Shane Kim, Arron Greenberg are all fanboys like the x360 fanboys on this site. While Sony is out blazing their own trail of fresh and exciting franchise. Micorsoft have drawn up a list of PS exclusives to poach hehe. You can't get anymore desperate and pathetic like a fanboy than this. The funny thing is they admit it and enjoy it. MS will never be a leader and will always be a follower. The sad thing is they can't see it.

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ucantbanme - 520 days 4 hours ago

What people don't realize is the amount of developers Sony has purchased. Everyone blames MS but think about the # of developers SOny has aquired. When Sony entered the industry it was very small software wise. Now thru out ther years it has bought tons of devloper, so many in fact it has more studios than Nintendo.

If MS did that, we would be complaining about them buying out the competition.

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truth for gamers - 520 days 4 hours ago

I'll tell you why the 360 does'nt need that many first party exclusives. It's because Microsoft is making a profit from the 360 hardware and live (even if live is not free it's well worth it since it's the best online gaming network out there).

Also, developers are not stupid, they know that games on the 360 have higher sales numbers than one the ps3.

It's not fanboysim, it's just reality.

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iamtehpwn - 520 days 4 hours ago

Seriously. Whats the point dude?
Us Ps3 owners got Raped today.
I am so pissed I could set both my PS3 and 360 on fire.

Keep games exclusive. I own both consoles, and I want exclusive games. This is like being in a classroom, and Everyone's copying off each other with no teacher watching. How can we know which student knows the subject better?

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segasage - 520 days 4 hours ago

chaosatom - i've seen better spins on that first heart breaking article...

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Silver360 - 520 days 3 hours ago

80% of the money goes to third party developers, so they love MS for that

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Megatron08 - 520 days 3 hours ago

ucantbanme how true. Fanboys are the biggest hypocrites there are. Just look at all the fanboys that suddenly hate FF when they were all saying it was one of the greatest games of all time a few days ago. Plus MS has actually created a lot of new IP's in the short time they been in gaming. GoW, Forza , Fable, Viva Pinata , Lost Odyssey and of course Halo are just a few of the new Hit IP's they created

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thxkbye - 520 days 3 hours ago

SQUARE IS A 3RD PARTY DEVELOPER. Please don't forget this.

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sonarus - 520 days 3 hours ago

All of you fanboys are clowns. The thing is deep down inside 360 fanboys don't really want FFXIII, they are just happy it isn't exclusive to PS3. Big fvkin deal.
PS3 fanboys cry me a fvkin river Square Enix sell out bla bla bla.

Sony has been saying 3rd party exclusives are a thing of the past. Stop looking at exclusives like they are the only games to play.

JUST BECAUSE FFXII WENT MULTIPLAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN NO LONGER PLAY IT ON PS3.

PS3 fanboys are just as pathetic crying over it as the 360 fanboys who are celebrating. Stand at look at the games coming to the PS3 and decide which one interests you more.

Sales wise 360 will receive no gains from this all it does and all that matter to microsoft is that sony won't receive any gains either. GTA4 went multi, DMC4 went multi and everyone screamed PS3 is dead bla bla bla. PS3 is still alive and kicking.

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Real Gambler - 520 days 3 hours ago

Second most serious flaw after the RRoD is simply the fact that not all 360s have hard drives.

Metal Gear is 50gig. Sure you could swap 6 disks, but that's pretty ugly. Plus they have announced that now games will have install on 360s. (Yep, getting FF likely pushed this announcement, because it's pretty big too). I'm sure other devs have told them that they basically had no choices as well.

So I now pity those Arcarde 360 owners. Sure, for now, the install won't be mandatory, but it's only a question of time. A very short time.

Next Microsoft big news? A newer bigger harddrive. The 120gig will be phased out, and a new 320gig will "only" be $200 dollars. (Maybe more, they are so greedy)

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NegativeCreep427 - 520 days 3 hours ago

I totally agree with you. The only profitable IP that Microsoft has in its first-party arsenal is Halo, and that one IP is not enough to carry them throughout an entire console generation (5 years, at the least). Microsoft does nothing but throw money in third-party developers faces, cross their fingers, and hope that their money will cause some kind of an advantage to the xbox 360.

Sony has so many gamer-valued IP's that Sony alone can cause a significant impact with their games. Honestly. Tomorrow morning cannot come any faster. I don't know for sure (seriously, I'm not Miss Cleo or anything so I can't fortell the future) but I am thinking that Sony's E3 conference tomorrow will bring just as much as an significant impact as FFXIII going to the 360 was to Microsoft.

Sony, this is the time to show all you're cards and act like you are playing to the death.

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thewhoopimen - 520 days 3 hours ago

Another fanboy statement by MS corporate if I've ever heard one... seriously...

"We have a white board that lists all of the [Sony] games people said we'd never get," he told a roomful of reporters. "That list is getting smaller."

@1.3 Your argument is silly. If MS wanted to, they could easily buy out Sony and get all the software IPs they wanted...

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NegativeCreep427 - 520 days 3 hours ago

"@1.3 Your argument is silly. If MS wanted to, they could easily buy out Sony and get all the software IPs they wanted..."

Man, you clearly have no formal education in business and accounting-related courses. Buying out another multi-billion dollar corporation like Sony involves ALOT MORE than just having the right amount of money to do so. If you're perception of corporate buy-outs was the norm, than Microsoft would have already bought out Yahoo, but look at all the newest business headlines; Microsoft ain't getting Yahoo, and its because of deeper, corporate presentiments.

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thewhoopimen - 520 days 1 hour ago

Don't lecture me about accounting courses when you missed your 2 semesters in English and can't even pick up on sarcasm or rhetoric. I know perfectly well how difficult it is for MS to just simply "buyout" another company. My argument still stands that if MS wants to do it, they could still do it barring the fed.

And btw, if you really read up on the Yahoo MS buyout, you would know that MS isn't really interested in acquiring Yahoo any longer. Steve Ballmer's having field day getting a major stakeholder in Yahoo to dump the Yahoo Board of Directors. All in the name of having things his way.

PS. I do have a minor in Accounting and no accountants typically don't head buyouts, so your point is double moot.

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NegativeCreep427 - 520 days ago

Well I guess you're minor major in accounting cannot possibly compete with my DOUBLE-major in Business and Accounting (Extreme Sarcasm, In case you're dumb-A$$ can't tell) If Microsoft isn't really "interested" in purchasing Yahoo, then why the hell have they been stalking Yahoo for as long as they been (which in case you haven't been keeping track, has been about 3 months). Answer me that question?

"I do have a minor in Accounting and no accountants typically don't head buyouts, so your point is double moot." I do not know where you study Accounting at, Whoopi? but at the University of Southern California; USC, here we are taught that more than an 70% of a corporations board of directors need to approve of a certain corporate's buy-out in order for it to even enter into an exchange buy-out. Accountings need to be directed before a buy-out is approved. In case you're stupidness didin't know, Accounting is actually referred to as the "language of business".

I do not know where you studied accounting at, but I hope it wasn't at some second-rate facility, for you're sake.

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thewhoopimen - 519 days 23 hours ago

Sorry to disappoint you bud, but I went to Johns Hopkins and no Accounting doesn't lead buyouts. I doubled in Biomedical Engineering and Business Admin conc. marketing w/minor in Acctng. Accountants complete the acquisitions but don't initiate them. In fact short of the CFO, nobody in the account department even suggests it. I guess you haven't finished your schooling so don't even get into it with me because you've never conducted a buyout and I have actually worked through one with my company's legal counsel (who incidentally went to USC law). Let's talk about it when you have real world experience. Nobody in the f**king accounting dept deals directly with acquisitions until after most of the foundation's been laid. They analyze, double check, and approve the buyout after the talks are initiated. Then they integrate the merging company's books after. Ie most of the grunt work.

PS I'm so glad i didn't pay the 50,000+/year tuition that you did. Maybe you should've gone into film.

PSS Yes MS wants Yahoo. I can't argue with you there. Last I read was Icahn attempting a coup over Yahoo's board and wanting to sell off portions to MS. Looks like the deal terms have changed and its part and parcel.

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thewhoopimen - 519 days 23 hours ago

One last thing. Offhand if MS can afford to buyout Yahoo for $47 billion why are we even having this stupid discussion. Sony is in the same ballpark size wise (44bill?) so MS can easily buy Sony and all its IPs.
My "simplified" statement still stands.

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Thugbot187 - 519 days 19 hours ago

I guess the only question to ask is who’s the bigger geek NegativeCreep427 or thewhoopimen?

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TVC15 - 519 days 16 hours ago

MGS4 IS THE END ALL OF GAMING!!!

too bad I haven't played it yet. :'(

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kevnb - 519 days 15 hours ago

but third party support is what wins console wars, and microsoft is doing a great job of building more and more support. They are even starting to get exclusive games from third parties, some timed and some not. Sony got where they are now based mostly on third party support, and microsoft is slowly stealing that away.

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dachiefsman - 519 days 12 hours ago

here have a tissue.

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BrianC6234 - 519 days 7 hours ago

"They don't create that many first party titles and they steal exclusivity and DLC."

Microsoft creates plenty of first party games. The problem is most gamers could care less about them. Most of them are horrible. They sure wasted a lot of money when they bought Rare. No wonder Nintendo dumped them. What was their last good game?

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xbox360migs - 519 days 7 hours ago

Don't take this the wrong way, but....this is history repeating itself but in reverse. I remember clearly when Sony entered the console war against Sega and nintendo with the PS1,Sony did not get to where it was through innovation ( The sega saturn was a technically superior machine on paper) but through buying exclusives,timed exclusives and just being the well known and respected brand SONY. I still remember when Tomb raider was released, It was groundbreaking at the time and Sony bought the timed exclusive to it, Suddenly the local trade papers were full of Second hand Sega saturns for sale. This was the start of the mighty Sony Playstation era and the beginning of the end of Sega's era. Sony had the money and Sega did not. Whats interesting and relevant now is a case of "what goes around comes around" and Microsoft is playing Sony at it's own game. However I Can't see Sony going the same way as sega but ...things are getting tougher for them because it's not a case of david and goliath anymore...It's goliath against goliath!

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thebudgetgamer - 519 days 6 hours ago

not to long ago 360 fanboys were saying ps3 got no games now that ms has poached one of those games its like xmas for you im not mad good games should be played by all besides its been said by many at sony that 3rd party exclusives are all but gone and when you put them side by side sony has the best first party line up but dont be angry we should all rejoice for our 360 playing friends

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NegativeCreep427 - 519 days 6 hours ago

Well we will see who is really a "geek" when I am earning $100,000+ annual salary within my first 4 years out of college and you are still doing minimum-wage oil changes well into you're 30's

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popup - 519 days 5 hours ago

Sometimes, these console manufacturers all remind me of the following desperate companies and annoy me in the same way :) ...

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SPECTER - 520 days 4 hours ago

Im Soviet Russia, MGS4 screw with you

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buckethead_X - 520 days 4 hours ago

You deserve some bubbles. That made me laugh myself into a coma XD It was just so random XD XD

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yesah - 520 days 3 hours ago

exactly, MS always lies. I wouldnt trust this, i mean he is holding a ps3 controller for using the Mk. II, its 50 gigs. Cmon guys, have common sense. All he said was *laugh* “That’s a question for Konami.” meaning he dosnt know.

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kevnb - 519 days 15 hours ago

The game is 33 gigs, and the ps3 controller didn't make it into the final version.

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HateBoy - 519 days 14 hours ago

Yeah, I asked them, they said no.

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Kyur4ThePain - 520 days 4 hours ago

If MGS5 goes over, yes.

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fenderputty - 520 days 3 hours ago

No to both.

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Homicide - 520 days 2 hours ago

I'm selling my PS3 if it happens.

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Rice - 520 days 1 hour ago

hows ps3 in trouble if mgs4 goes to xbox 360...the friken game was already released and sold over a million copies...And tell me how would mgs4 going to 360 effect ps3...huh..???

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TVC15 - 519 days 16 hours ago

cause most of the people who own ps3s and wanted MGS4 already bought it.

If it DID go to the 360 though, it'd make many 360 owners very happy. (ME :D)

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TVC15 - 519 days 16 hours ago

Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts :D

I just hope its up to par with the N64 ones...

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kevnb - 519 days 15 hours ago

What does Sony have? I like their first party games, but none of them can compete sales wise with those two you just listed. Not to mention games like Fable 2, Forza 3, Infinite Discovery and the already large library. Now I love my ps3 just as much as you, but no need to be delusional.

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segasage - 520 days 4 hours ago

not a movie player...

some still like to PLAY games instead of watching them.

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mistertwoturbo - 520 days 4 hours ago

@6.1
lol someone clearly didn't watch the microsoft keynote.

there's more movie-watching features in there than the PS3.

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PirateThom - 520 days 3 hours ago

More movie watching and casual gaming than the PS3.

GG, Microsoft.

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Kleptic - 520 days 4 hours ago

careful with that...a lot of people did that last night about Square's 'big surprise'...

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morganfell - 520 days 3 hours ago

No. Who would believe it. It is Microsoft's way of intentionally muddying the water when their hands and pockets are empty.

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Pain - 520 days 3 hours ago

I still wonder how much M$ paid for FF, its funny how the Bots belive its cuz of Instal base lol

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AngryTypingGuy - 519 days 12 hours ago

The guy from Square Enix specifically said that their install base in N.A. and Europe is a big reason why FF is now on the 360.

I think it's only a matter of time before MGS4 is on the 360. I don't think MGS4 sold enough to make Kojima happy. The 360 would allow it to do so.

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Thoas - 520 days 2 hours ago

http://i289.photobucket.com...

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caffman - 519 days 10 hours ago

mass effect-NOT CONFIRMED, gears 3- NO CHANCE IN HELL,Kane and lynch- wish it had been a PS3 exclusive!

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ShinGino - 520 days 4 hours ago

PS3s are $399 you douche! You talk as if you were living in 2006-early 2007.

MGS4 characters make fun of multi-discs and the DVD format in-game!

MGS4 characters use Sony phones and Apple computers and laptops(Apple is Micro$oft's biggest enemy)

In the beginning of the game it says "WARNING: MGS4 is to be played exclusively on Playstation 3"

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SacT0wnF1n3st - 520 days 4 hours ago

You love your 360 that much huh?

I think you should kiss it, sleep with it and do you know what with it.

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thereapersson - 520 days 3 hours ago

Rhezin and n00bzRtehgey are vying for the position of biggest idiot on n4g

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Jason 360 - 520 days 2 hours ago

PS3's are $399 for low end models you douche, they go as high as $599. Droids will go far, you guys will lie, cheat, cry, whine, write blogs, make sh!t up and just downright say stupid sh!t. Xbots just rub truth in your faces, the PS3 will never be the PS2. The Xbox and Wii have taken your install base and left you with a couple games, and we will probably get those to. (MGS5 multiplat) So take your place in back of the line and quit crying, your tears make the floor slippery.

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reccodog - 520 days 2 hours ago

You sound like someone who has a 360 controller stuck somewhere. Is this true?

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Tmac - 520 days 4 hours ago

The word you're looking for is loses and are you retarded? Rhetorical question.

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rhood022 - 520 days 4 hours ago

yeah..good as dead...*rolls eyes*

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Torch - 520 days 4 hours ago

While you're at it, you may want to explain "rhetorical"...that' s a whole four syllables, y'know.

(Not that doing so is going to have any significant positive impact on that sad, morbid example of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, unfortunately.)

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Icewake - 520 days 3 hours ago

QQ

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Jason 360 - 520 days 2 hours ago

It's like sombody took the PS3 to pwn land and left it there.

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jamenees - 520 days 3 hours ago

would need a disc change at the end of each act. The 360 MGS4 would look like a wrestlemania box set.

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Jason 360 - 520 days 2 hours ago

Yeah MGS5 would take 14 disc, 13 of them cutsceens, the actual game could fit on a floppy disc.

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jamenees - 520 days 1 hour ago

because I think the 360 is coming out with a new revamped floppy disc drive. It's part of their 'wave of innovation' they so eloquently spoke of during E3.

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karlostomy - 519 days 14 hours ago

Juuken has really lost it this time.

Go and seek professional help, Juuken.

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ps3FTW - 520 days 3 hours ago

Proof? Oh wait you believe in Bu1lshit that's right.

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juuken - 520 days 3 hours ago

Um...no.
Konami prefers the PS3.

Let me repeat that.

Old Snake was using a PS3 controller so it's not coming to the 360.

And um...Icewake, Square Enix actually shot Microsoft in the foot there. Konami said already MGS4 wasn't possible for the 360 because of size limitations. If that's all Microsoft is going to do-buy exclusives, then they're even more scumbaggish than I thought.

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Icewake - 520 days 2 hours ago

I bet you thought the same thing about square enix, didn't you?

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juuken - 520 days ago

Yes...in your dreams.

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butterfinger - 519 days 18 hours ago

obsession with MGS is hilarious. It's always nice to see little whiny fanboys like him cry about what they can't have. Here you go Jason, we know you need it: http://www.kleenex.com/NA/D...

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doshey - 519 days 14 hours ago

okay if mgs 4 took up like 50gb what makes u think mgs 5 will take up less it wont and thats why the game will really not come to the 360

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karlostomy - 519 days 14 hours ago

this is what you should have said:

"SONY, if this does (or even if it doesn't) happen, count me out of you next console (as well as your current one)"

No need to thank me, my good friend!
:)

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