Xbox 360 Fanboy

And you think it will be more financially feasible to build a game already made from ground up again just so that 360 owners can play it? Ya know what? Why should Konami spend money making that recreation for you if you're too lazy to go out and spend money buying a PS3 to play it? It costs a lot more building that 1 game for 360 then it does to buy a PS3 with the game.

Should have done what I did, bought both, that way you wouldn't be moaning about it now, and if you can't afford or don't want a PS3, what the heck do you care that its exclusive to PS3? Just get the next Gears and be happy already, it was your choice, not Konami's.

Note: I'm not speaking to you exclusively, I say 'you' and 'your', but I'm refering to all moaners alike. Thats not assuming you don't already own a PS3 and MGS4.

Oh, and to counter your Bioshock / Ninja Gaiden arguement, when did Bioshock release? When did Sigma release? How much was spent recreating those games? How many CDs did they use? In what way did they boast 360 exclusivity? By building the 360 MGS up from scratch, that means every little detail, even the clip of Snake holding a PS3 controller.

Why do you think those two are the only two that bothered to make a recreation? I'm even suprised a Bioshock is releasing for PS3. FF11 never saw PS3, Dead Rising never saw PS3, Lost Planet just about saw it but sucked as expected, it was rushed, Saints row never saw PS3, Smackdown 2007 never saw PS3.

What do you think all these games had in common?

Maverick man.

You got to understand.

Porting a game doesn't cost as much as creating it. Do you know how much money Konami would make if it came to 360?

Yes its a pain but when you brake it down it's not impossible. It can be done, people have done much harder things like "building an operating system".

I'm not arguing that it's coming because I don't know that, but as an amateur programmer I can tell you man, it can be done. It wouldn't be the first time and it wouldn't cost them even half of what it cost to build it. Yes certain words in some sentences would have to be changed and certain scenes recreated. How much do you think that costs? dude this game sell a million copies first week.

As a tech head, I don't see any processing or graphical limitations on 360 that would make the game IMPOSSIBLE (there are many games on 360 that perform and look as good if not better than MGS4 on 360). Yes the game installs on PS3 and it wouldn't be able to do so on 360 but games work fine that way too. (ie. GTA4)

Maverick, it's not impossible and it is profitable for Konami. The only reason this game wouldn't get ported is if Konami and Sony have agreed ($$) not because of tech issues.

Ysleiro, I'm not saying you're wrong here at all either, it could be coming over.

But think seriously about it, unless it does a Bioshock on us, I don't exactly see the point of Konami starting the project now, they could be moving onto other things. Disk space and finances are just two aspects. There is also reputation and quality to uphold, and then theres the question of who will port? Kojima? Really?

So whether or not Sony paid them or not, Konami have put themselves in a hard spot, even if they suddenly decide that the success they are having on PS3 isn't enough and decide to go multi, they would then look like complete pilocks for making boastful claims, AND THEN, even still, the game would have to be built from ground up, all those little jokes referring to the PS3, the adverts, the link with PSP, the sixxaxis use, EVERYTHING would have to be completely redone, thats not your average multiplat rebuild, you do realise MGS4 was built to utilse the PS3s capabilities alone, in order for it to even be half as good as it is now, the game would have to be redone for 360 completly, its not a simple proceedure at all, its not like DMC or COD or SC, its not like Bioshock or Ninja Gaiden, all those games can be easily ported, theres nothing in them really to hold the devs back, this is why a PS3 Bioshock can be built, most of the time was speant negotiating and thinking about it rather then working on it, and chances are it will still be around on time for there to be a Bioshock 2 release on PS3 as well. You really have to play and look at MGS4 to understand how much of a change they would have to make, thats even without paying anything yet, or even looking at the reputation they still have to hold.

I can't say PS3 owners are most pleased with Capcom, not for the fact that they are making games multiplat, but the fact they tell people, heck, they promise people one thing, then at the last moment change thier minds. Reminds me of Sony.

Agreed.

My friend made this comment once.

"The only reason we have exclusives is because of politics not technical limitations."

In other words, company A pays Company B and you got an exclusive, or Company A asks for an exclusive and Company B likes Company A so they do it without extra pay.

I couldn't care less if MGS4 was to come out on 360.
But using product placement within a game as a reason that it would be impossible to port is a stupid one.
Small things like that could easily be changed to products like a 360, a Zune, a 360 Controller and any mobile phone that uses Windows Mobile.

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