By Marcus Lai:
Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 80GB Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle this week held a sold out status at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s online division on high demand for the product.
Walmart.com disclaimed an 'Out of Stock' status to online customers as of Sat. evening. The item is not available for in-store pickup.
The MGS4 PS3 80GB SKU includes a copy of the Metal Gear Solid 4 game and a Dualshock 3 controller for $499.99.
The product has held in the top three sales at Amazon.com on steady availability at the retailer.
Sony this month recorded a Q1 profit of $50.5 million (5.4 billion yen) profit in its game division compared to a loss of $273.3 million (29.2 billion yen) one year prior.
Sony has sold 14.4 million PS3 units worldwide to date.
The electronics giant will retail a new $399 PS3 80GB SKU this fall, representing a $100 price cut from the current 80GB model.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
An article looking at the symbolic meaning behind the cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Game creator Hideo Kojima is and probably will always be best-known for his creation and stewardship of the Metal Gear series at Konami, which since his departure has been more-or-less on permanent hiatus (don't mention Survive). In his almost three decades these games evolved to the point where they predicted certain problems of the information age (MGS 2), took aim at contemporary topics like Guantanamo Bay (MGS: Ground Zeroes), and ended on a profound sense of sadness about our species' inability to break the cycles of global conflict (MGS V).
It's not clear what sparked this reflection, but Kojima's been thinking about Metal Gear Solid 4, an entry that was (and unfortunately still remains) a PlayStation 3 exclusive. In that entry the player controls an aged Solid Snake in the year 2014, caught up in a civil war being fought between Private Military Companies (PMCs).
He was always ahead with this series. MSG1 taught me about the importance of passing on our genes into future generations but in a responsible way, for they are bound to what we experienced in our lifetime. Sons of liberty taught me about global control and simulation runs to test society in a grand scale, the importance and dangers of control of information. MGS3 taught me about patriotism and how that can blind you into doing things you never would have otherwise, all for the sake of politicians who only see you as another pawn in their grand scheme of things. MSG4 taught me war is inevitable and always orchestrated because it's great for the economy. Soon simulation systems will start dictating who goes to war and why, all run through proxies. Privatization of military company are already here. We already started to see how a small group of elites dictates everything that happens. Nothing is done, nothing happens without strings being pulled.
If it wasn't for the retconning of how FOXDIE works, including clunky scenes with Naomi and Liquid, MGS4 would be a perfect game. There are so many gameplay options. It felt like us PS3 owners got something truly unique and special.
Poor Xbots
Poor Xbots, "Sony has sold 14.4 million PS3 units worldwide to date."? Poor Xbots, idiots are still using vgcrap numbers, we all know they have more than 15 mil. Poor Xbots, another online retailer sold out, will you stop being silly and get one too?
Poor Xbots
I wonder why sony did not have much larger quantities at MSG4 launch. they surely would have sold a lot of hardware with that bundle. Sony sometimes make weird decisions. but who doesnt.
Yep clintos, MSG4 was going to be a system seller. I just dont know why ppl doubt that!!
Its now even no.1 in Amazon too, coz the wii is sold out lols
With a game like MGS4, the new Dualshock3 controller and the fact this SKU sports Backwards Compatability are the real reasons why this bundle is selling like hot cakes. Sony did do a poor job in forecasting how many units to move to retailers but as long as sales are strong I don't see why they wouldn't keep comming out with that bundle.
My Wal*mart has like eight. No one is touching them!
And there is actually dust on the boxes of the regular ones!
Wii and 360s, they can't keep em on the shelves!