Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the power to run MGS4
- Posted October 16th, 2008 at 08:02 EDT by
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It's all kicking off down at MCV. Following a controversial report that Konami was considering making Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots a multiplatform game, Microsoft's corporate vice-president of Live, Software and Services John Schappert has announced he would "love" to see Snake's finest hour on Xbox 360.
“I’m certainly in the fan club that would love to see Kojima-san’s masterpiece come our way," Schappert oozed. "It would be wonderful to play Metal Gear Solid on the Xbox."
"It could become another of the many franchises that started their life on another console that are now coming our way," he went on. Cheeky devil.
This confirms nothing, of course, but Schappert is confident that the Xbox 360 could shoulder the weight. “I can’t speak on behalf of Konami, but I can shed more light on the fact that we definitely have the power to run MGS4," he said. "There are a lot of recent examples that are in true high-def on our platform and aren’t on PS3. We’ve got an amazing amount of horsepower and graphics power.”
Sounds fantastic, John, but what about the vastly reduced DVD storage space? You won't be putting many copies in stores if each box takes up an entire shelf.
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west_end_matt
- 8:12am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Such a propaganda machine M$. Not all 360's even have a hard drive.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 8:19am BST - October 16th, 2008
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"There are a lot of recent examples that are in true high-def on our platform and aren’t on PS3. We’ve got an amazing amount of horsepower and graphics power.”
There are more titles that are 1080p on the PS3 than the 360. Both disc based and arcade based. So that statement is laughable. Another thing is him talking about titles being ported from the PS3 which...... I actually have not heard of at all. Developed for the 360 first, developed simultainiously, developed for 360 using a different build, is all that I have heard. I have yet to hear of a proprietary engine made to run on the PS3 being used in port to the 360. Typical, nonsense.
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Rauland |
PPp_Killer- 8:24am BST - October 16th, 2008
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maybe it could run on the 360 that is after they cut down the grahpics, play the cutsences in SD umm compressed sound more so , users must swap disc every 5 mintues.. bascally the game will be second rate to the ps3 and it would be a shame 2 lose a another great game excusilive 2 the 360
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Falogar |
Graemeshaw- 8:32am BST - October 16th, 2008
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"You won't be putting many copies in stores if each box takes up an entire shelf."
great stuff Ed, made me laugh :P
but really, Kojima said it couldnt run on 360, and noone knows better than him. so think this is all much ado about nothing to be honest -
gameoholic |
Demented007- 8:41am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Yeah, maybe after you cut resources out, print it on 7 disks, and then send your crapbox in for repairs 3 times, because it overheated, then maybe it could run it. What a moron! PSN ID- Demented007
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Guamdude 671 |
bblas- 8:43am BST - October 16th, 2008
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I pray to god that this doesn't go to 360. I don't even care if the 360 can't run it or that they'll have to dum down the graphics. It's just the fact that us Sony fans are losing one of our Best Exclusive titles, that will be a dark day for Sony if we ever lose MGS4. But think about it guys Bioshock was constantly confirmed to be 360 & PC exclusive but a year later we got it. Hopefully MGS4 doesn't jump ship to the crappy 360.
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bilbo_bobbins |
bilbo_bobbins- 8:48am BST - October 16th, 2008
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m$ never cease to amaze me with their ridiculous comments.
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tretormenn |
bilbo_bobbins- 8:56am BST - October 16th, 2008
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I wihs to see it. on 360 for real. 360 game pack include 4 cd and a 20gb hard disk+1 month xbl membership. Yea go ahead I really want to see this. btw True HD on 360? o yea righttttt mmmm! o! you mean, the upscale thing trick, another dog with that bone.
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Stoffinator |
Stoffinator- 8:59am BST - October 16th, 2008
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They wish it had the power to run it, it doesn't even have the disc space. Screw M$. Go create more Halo and leave MGS4 alone.
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Shin-Karazu |
shinkarazu- 9:01am BST - October 16th, 2008
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`With all the good games that are coming out, why MS insist on taking this game to Xbox. They cant run this game on their console. It just shows even more how MS does bussiness...Just for the $$$
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vvmasterdrfan |
VvMastrDrFan- 9:05am BST - October 16th, 2008
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noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
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J1gs4w |
d3v1ldr1v3r- 9:05am BST - October 16th, 2008
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If it does go, which I seriously hope not/doubt. I dont believe it will have Kojima's blessing. But if Konami puts enough pressure and money his way, he might hand it to a third party dev as he did with Silicon Knights with the Twin Snakes ont the Cube.
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-Zaku- |
SlashZaku- 9:08am BST - October 16th, 2008
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How the h*** can he comment on a game he had no hand in on whether or not it could run on his console? Seriously, MS's 'obsession' with Sony's franchises is pathetic now and even moreso that they like to gloat about it.
And just as pathetic is the 'We Want/I Wish/I Hope' attitude of the fans. Seriously, I'm tired of 360 fans popping into topics about PS3 games (especially exclusives) and asking "Is this coming to 360/I'll wait for the 360 release/I hope this comes to 360" posts. Honestly, for all the bashing they do against the PS3, they sure want it's games a whole lot :| And most I've had the 'pleasure' of being around just want these games for the same reason MS does: gloating. Most don't even want them to play cause they've been ragging on them the whole time.
Seriously, MS is single-handedly killing console diversity.
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hitman8062 |
hitman8062- 9:25am BST - October 16th, 2008
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why are these as* holes so dumb? I admit that i used to have a 360 but that was only because it came out before the ps3 and 2 years later (and i didnt use it much, sometimes even for up to four months on end) the useless piece of xcrap broke by itself. But dont get me wrong i am glad that it broke cos now i have the superior console.
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melmacj
- 9:29am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Running MGS4 on 360 would be a mess. I don't see why it's so important that 360 has the game too. There's plenty of games 360 has that PS3 don't jeez. They don't have mandatory hard drives in each system. DVD couldn't hold the entire game in it's original format. The game was made for PS3 why not just leave it as that. Getting MGS4 on 360 will not make or break that system.
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Guamdude 671 |
bblas- 9:44am BST - October 16th, 2008
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@24
Don't say that Gears of War doesn't come close to MGS. MGS is better by a mile I would never trade MGS for Gears.
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Paranoimia |
Paranoimia- 9:54am BST - October 16th, 2008
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I wonder, if it did go to 360, if Microsoft would make them remove this scene.
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-Zaku- |
SlashZaku- 9:59am BST - October 16th, 2008
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@27:
Or how about the PSP, PS3, DualShock, Sony Ericsson, iPod, and Macs while they're at it? (which they clearly can't) MGS breaks the 4th wall and has throw backs to previous things in the series (such as Psycho Mantis or the disc scene as you mentioned) so removing stuff like that ruins the charm/overall experience to be had. *IF* the game were to go, MS can't make them remove spit due to contracts.
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Fiddlesworth
- 10:04am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Why is this site spreading Microsoft propaganda? Wake up!
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illicious |
illicious- 10:10am BST - October 16th, 2008
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"There are a lot of recent examples that are in true high-def on our platform and aren’t on PS3"
Err ok. There are way many examples that the PS3 has only up 360 power because companies have to make games run for both systems. Thus because of the 360 the ps3 find it difficult to have its own true power unleashed. MGS4 is a perfect example. The game would of been way toned down if was released for both systems.
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Tonic99 |
Tonic99- 10:32am BST - October 16th, 2008
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As far as I am concerned there is only one console,I dont even speak to my freinds about which console is better,To me there is only one console that exsists and thats the PS3 and I buy all my games as exclusives wether its multi-platform or not!So if MGS4 goes multi-platform(which I dought)it will still be my exclusive!
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dirigiblebill
- 10:42am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Just curious you understand, but how does taking the mick out of the Xbox 360's storage capacity add up to "Microsoft propaganda"?
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melmacj
- 10:46am BST - October 16th, 2008
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illicious you are a thousand times correct. In this endless battle of 360 vs PS3. No one wants to talk about that. There's the problem right there. Common ground each developer has to make. You either make a game exclusive to PS3 and use everything it offer or you bring it down to work across both system. I know it would screw over millions of people who brought 360 but I wish Microsoft just bite the bullet and bring out a new version of 360 that use bluray disc for games. That way developers can stretch their legs how they want. I really believe 360 hardware can run the MGS4 with modification since Konami spent all this time optimizing it for PS3. But 8 gigs of space just isn't going to get it. As great as GTA4 is I still have to wonder just how much more vast it would be if it had the leg room of a Bluray disc. Xbots can downplay it all they want but the clock is ticking on dvd. End of story.
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l3iscomix |
BiscoMix- 11:31am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Konami himself said that it wouldn’t feel right to bring Metal Gear solid 4 to the Xbox 360. It’s true too. Some games should just stick to the Playstation brand. Let’s hope Konami sticks to his words, and isn’t all about money. I think they should just leave our exclusives alone already. We like to have our own games, games that feel right only on Playstation.
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Free_Agent
- 11:40am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Well it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the game ended up on the 360. I know the only thing that holds it back would be the long cut scenes which would require multiple disks. Probably nothing that would shy 360 owners away from getting it, as it didn't seem to bother anyone with the FF games on PS2. Now that I come to think of it, alot of games do run at native high def on the 360. I remember when I bought GTA4 for my ps3 instead of the 360, then coming to find out it only ran at some obscure resolution on the ps3(640p) vs 720p on the 360. Regardelss, who cares really, we all got to play it, and have beaten it 3 times by now. I could care less.
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knoted
- 11:45am BST - October 16th, 2008
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Despite it's PR talks indeed.... Sony fans shouldn't get all worked up.
I do believe the X360 has more than enough processing & GPU power to do MGS4 and then some ! But, all that audio will have to be compressed to cater the DVD9 format. Seriously, it will be good for Konami Japan , to get more expertise on the 360 and to do business with MS. Otherwise they will isolate even more ... something from which the Japanese gamedeveloper world is suffering now already.
Also ; there alot of 360 gamers who would still love to play MGS4 on the 360 ; there is a market for it.
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CGIQuality
- 11:50am BST - October 16th, 2008
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To my fellow PS3 buddies in here: I agree with ALL of ya'll. Every post before mine has something I agree with. Why does the most thieving company in the business always want PS exclusives? Simple: They have no true identity. Every exclusive, besides Fable, isn't truly theirs. Halo was not originally M$. They stole that concept too. Of course they want Sony franchises. They know Sony is better... so... they have to take from Sony just to try to show that Sony sucks, when in turn, showing that they suck and have nothing of their own. This is one of the reasons that our beloved Sony is building their first party so much. Sony has an identity, M$ doesn't, end of story.
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LegendaryAim |
LegendaryAim- 11:52am BST - October 16th, 2008
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@35 and 36
His name is Kojima the man who made MGS and hes truly a man of art that would really really hate to see his Masterpiece watered down to the extreme and played with buttons that arent Triangle Square Circle or X and Ps1 had multiple discs we left Multiple discs behind two generations ago -
princevegeta1980
- 11:52am BST - October 16th, 2008
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If he wants to play mgs4 he'll just have to buy a ps3!
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ruismael
- 11:53am BST - October 16th, 2008
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well, I supposed every one knows what this means, that Konami won't make an other MGS PS3 exclusive, they probably won't port MGS4 to the xbox but from now on if kojima wants to make an other MGS game it will have to go miltiplatform or they wont publish the game unless kojima wants to publish it on his own
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teevanator |
teevanator- 11:55am BST - October 16th, 2008
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bcoz it uses hd-dvd discs which only have 8gb of memory compared to a 50gb blu ray, so the whole game would have to be compressed
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Punisher99
- 12:35pm BST - October 16th, 2008
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Well it doesnt matter if microsoft thinks that MGS4 can run on their console because they are not getting it. They need to stop whining and crying like some little spoiled child to Konami about getting this game and just grow up.
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Denali2 |
NEJI64- 12:45pm BST - October 16th, 2008
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yea the this guy is an idiot i bet the whole Eastern Europe act would take up a up the whole DVD. plus the Big Momma part have to much going on that the Xc*o*ck can handle. if Konami bring MGS4 to crapbox they will destroy that whole game at lest Kojima came out and said MGS4 wont run on 3sh^ity and have no plans of going multplat.
The sad part is it might do end up going multiplat because Konami didnt come out yet saying MGS4 wont be going to 360.
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TekkenLord |
HitMan00- 12:45pm BST - October 16th, 2008
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they are dying to get this game cause the 360 only have 1 good selling exclusive game.
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Twilight93
- 12:51pm BST - October 16th, 2008
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I don't doubt that they can run it, but please don't. Microsoft has taken too many exclusives from Sony (FFXIII, GTAIV, DMC4, Tekken 6, etc.) just lay off the Godsend that is MGS4.
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