What is this image? It's the teaser-to-a-countdown-to-an-announcement that's been running on Kojima Productions' home page since last week.
Kotaku has a good breakdown of the obscure details rampant Metal Gear fans have dug out of this page and its source code. All of this stuff sounds like it all but confirms some kind of Metal Gear connection, though I have no idea what the significance of April 2007 might be.
- Analysing the page's source code via Flash, it seems that the current countdown on the site is but one of five clocks that will run on the site over the next few weeks... What's interesting about this is that the fifth one runs out on June 1. Or, the day of Microsoft's E3 press conference (Sony's is a day later, on June 2).
- The site occasionally flashes white when lightning flashes. At the bottom of the screen, you can clearly see the words "APRIL 2007". Does that mean anything to hardcore series fans?
- The site's search keywords are "Hideo Kojima", "MGS", "METAL GEAR", "NEXT", "game", "Konami", "Kojima game", "KJP", "Kojima Production". Interesting that, if they're search engine keywords, none of them say "MGS5".
That reference to Microsoft's E3 press conference dovetails nicely with the supposed details coming out of a Twitter account called GameFork recently, which indicated a game called "Metal Gear Solid 4+Oxide" would act as the finale at the press briefing on June 1. That sounds suspiciously like the long-rumored 360 port of MGS4, and it's followed up by this vague nugget.
For the questions about MGS+O being show finale: Konami will announce a 360 exclusive (NOBODY outside of Kon has been told what this is)...
Could well be referring to the same product as this counter, no? Of course, Microsoft big cheese Aaron Greenberg squashed those rumors whole hog recently--but then, it seems noteworthy that he took the time to respond at all, if this info is so far off the mark.
What do you think Kojima and company have up their sleeves this time?