The Age Old Debate Revived Again

On the premiere episode of 1UP.com's new flagship podcast, the age old debate has been revived again: will Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots be ported to the XBOX 360? The answer: nobody cares. But for the sake of discussion, here's an excerpt.

SAM KENNEDY: ...don't you think Metal Gear Solid 4 is going to come out for 360 at some point?

JOHN DAVISION: Yeah. Of course.

SAM KENNEDY: They’re looking at those year-in sales of, like, not even two million of MGS4 … they have to.

GARNETT LEE: Well, …

SAM KENNEDY: It’s been hinted at for a long time, it just –

GARNETT LEE: – ’09, right?

SAM KENNEDY: Yeah.

GARNETT LEE: I would say.

JOHN DAVISON: I would be shocked if it doesn’t come this year.

On the premiere episode of 1UP.com's new flagship podcast, the age old debate has been revived again: will Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots be ported to the XBOX 360? The answer: nobody cares. But for the sake of discussion, here's an excerpt.

SAM KENNEDY: ...don't you think Metal Gear Solid 4 is going to come out for 360 at some point?

JOHN DAVISION: Yeah. Of course.

SAM KENNEDY: They’re looking at those year-in sales of, like, not even two million of MGS4 … they have to.

GARNETT LEE: Well, …

SAM KENNEDY: It’s been hinted at for a long time, it just –

GARNETT LEE: – ’09, right?

SAM KENNEDY: Yeah.

GARNETT LEE: I would say.

JOHN DAVISON: I would be shocked if it doesn’t come this year.

I remember when he was abundantly clear that Metal Gear Solid 2 was going to stay a PS2 exclusive.  =  /

But he found a loophole - Sons of Liberty remained exclusive to Sony's consoles, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance didn't. If - sorry, when - they make a similar spin-off, I would bet it would be on the 360 - as long as they did some much needed data management.

"ZanzibarBreeze said:

Do people really want to play Metal Gear Solid 4 so much to accept it being released on multiple discs?

...duh?"

If we hear nothing this year, I don't think it would be coming at all. Sure, there is alot of time left, but if Microsoft doesn't do that *big* announcement at E3 09, I'd say it won't happen. MGS4 on the 360 coming out 2 years after the PS3 version? Anyone who wanted to play it probably already has, or the ones who had no interest still won't.

"LCad said:

"ZanzibarBreeze said:

Do people really want to play Metal Gear Solid 4 so much to accept it being released on multiple discs?

...duh?"

Is the thought of multiple discs really that horrifying? It's just swapping discs at a certain time, I don't know why some people act like that's so bad.
"

Having to get up and swap a disk would be just as bad as having to wait for installs every act.

Anyways, I dont really  care as I already own the game, and have gotten what I want out of it.

1. Cut out the 25 different localizations: Lots of yapping in cutscenes = lots of space multiplied by 6 or 7 languages = bullshit.
2. FEAR EFFECT had like 4 disks, and so do alot of JRPG's. I'm down with disk swapping. I'm pretty sure anyone who had  PSX is familiar with this daunting task.
3. I can just install it to my 120 GB hard drive anyways.

I really wouldn't care if came on multiple disks becuase I got me a 120GB Hard-Drive , so I could just install the game and play it off of one disk theoretically.

I dunno if porting it would be a good financial decision. They'd have to change some dialogue and fit it onto the 360, it wouldn't be too hard, it's just: people who want to play MGS4 have already bought a PS3 for it. I mean, how many of us would actually buy MGS4 for the 360? Although, I do predict that the next Metal Gear will definitely be Multiplatform.

Uh... two million is pretty good for sales. Actually, it's around three or four million worldwide. A 360 port isn't needed. They've already made a profit. Besides, I'm sure Sony paid a hefty price to keep this one exclusive.

While I don't care about this game (or anything to do with Metal Gear), I don't understand what the big problem is with games with multiple discs. Really. Somebody who's not an idiot please explain to me what the big deal is. It's not like the games will cost more (at least, I've never seen a game have a higher price tag because of multiple discs), and the game won't change; you'll just have to swap a disc out after playing the game for about 3-4 hours (maybe 20 for a RPG).

I just... I just don't get what the fuss is.

"While I don't care about this game (or anything to do with Metal Gear), I don't understand what the big problem is with games with multiple discs. Really. Somebody who's not an idiot please explain to me what the big deal is. It's not like the games will cost more (at least, I've never seen a game have a higher price tag because of multiple discs), and the game won't change; you'll just have to swap a disc out after playing the game for about 3-4 hours (maybe 20 for a RPG).

I just... I just don't get what the fuss is."

I'm interested in the game, but not enough to buy an additional console.

I do not think it should go to the 360, but either way I do nto really mind.

Truth is, it may or it may not. It's definately feasible.
In reality though, it shouldn't be such a big topic. MGS4 is a great game, but it's not a FF nor a Halo.

And there's nothing wrong with multiple disks.

I think that if there's one thing we've learned with sony, is that 3rd party exclusives don't exist.  Timed exclusives however do.

Ugh...yeah...i really dont even know at this point, i just have no bloody clue...damnit...

wait, Luke from Bungie still does the 1up podcasts?
(the slightly gay sounding guy)

Another problem is whether or not Xbox owners are aware of the Metal Gear storyline. Sure some early xbox users may have played Substance, but do they really know the ins and outs of the storyline?

"mgs4 doesn't need to be 'downgraded' to work on the 360. that's a bunch of sony propaganda BS. "

"Another problem is whether or not Xbox owners are aware of the Metal Gear storyline. Sure some early xbox users may have played Substance, but do they really know the ins and outs of the storyline?"

"LCad said:

"ZanzibarBreeze said:

Do people really want to play Metal Gear Solid 4 so much to accept it being released on multiple discs?

...duh?"

Is the thought of multiple discs really that horrifying? It's just swapping discs at a certain time, I don't know why some people act like that's so bad."

This.  I mean, I remember when Final Fantasy was using multiple discs as a SELLING POINT on the back of their fucking games!!!  What's the big deal with MGS4 going to 360 on multiple discs?  It's still the same fucking game!"

WIth NXE's hard-drive installation I figure they'd let you do a multi-disk install on a large enough HDD and use a single disc (disc 1 or any of them) for DRM.