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Payton "misquoted" on MGS4 sales comment

Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 07:16 EDT

Kojima Productions Associate Producer, Ryan Payton, has gone on record to state that he was misquoted in an article by Reuters last year regarding launch sales of the upcoming PlayStation 3 title, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

The article in question claimed that Payton had suggested that the game would have to sell one million copies at launch in an attempt to recover production costs.

However, speaking during a Bionic Commando podcast this week, Payton commented, "I wish I could send a message out to the whole world cause I hear about this all the time. It was a story from Reuters, so it was literally sent to every news source around the globe.”

“If you notice, in the news story, I have lots of quotes in there with quotation marks, but that part of the story isn't in quotation marks.”

“Number one, that million dollar figure is incorrect. I don't even know how many figures we'd need to sell to be profitable," he said.

"More importantly, that's not something you really talk about in an interview. It's nothing I'd ever say... I've been trying to contact Kemp Powers over at Reuters to see, I don't know if he recorded it on tape, but I'd love to hear it. So we can set the record straight,” added Payton.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is due out exclusively on PS3 in Q2 2008.

Source: Eurogamer

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posted 7:19am EST - February 8th, 2008
1

God bless the press

posted 7:21am EST - February 8th, 2008
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I'm sure/know MGS4 will sell more than they project, no worries there Ryan...

posted 7:34am EST - February 8th, 2008
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the best part of this article? "exclusive to ps3", classic :)
posted 8:07am EST - February 8th, 2008
4

who cares

posted 8:16am EST - February 8th, 2008
5
Q2 it may as well be xmas :(
posted 8:49am EST - February 8th, 2008
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I can't wait for this game!

posted 9:03am EST - February 8th, 2008
7

All I want to hear is: "MGS4 goes gold".

posted 9:46am EST - February 8th, 2008
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MGS4 must stay ps3 exclusive!!! It's one very important system seller!!!
posted 9:51am EST - February 8th, 2008
9

Lol, Limanima thats all you ever want to hear out of any game.

Interesting, PSU says MGS4 comes in march... I thought it was more like June...

posted 9:52am EST - February 8th, 2008
10

In North America alone it would sell a million.

posted 10:43am EST - February 8th, 2008
11

I agree MercRecon. Is it just me, or did it take this guy a looooooooooooong time to comment about being misquoted?

posted 10:57am EST - February 8th, 2008
12

yes it did take him a long time. i hope it also goes gold very soon. and comes out so i can start playing it. i'm already excited about GTAIV that comes out this april

posted 11:04am EST - February 8th, 2008
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No matter what this game has potential for surpassing that in sales. In terms of covering development cost for a game this big must be even more. Again I think it really comes down to the first week having the most momentum in sales.

posted 11:14am EST - February 8th, 2008
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Easy Million. Just about everyone with a PS3 is going to get this game, and MGS4 will also be a huge selling point for anyone who has ever wanted to get a PS3.

posted 12:13pm EST - February 8th, 2008
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this is goin to sell like hot cakes

posted 12:34pm EST - February 8th, 2008
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I wonder if it was the statement when it was mentioned that MGS4 would need to sell 1million copies on day one.

posted 12:52pm EST - February 8th, 2008
17

it will go diamond!!

posted 1:02pm EST - February 8th, 2008
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Either way,this baby WILL sell a million copies on it's first day,no doubt about it.

posted 1:36pm EST - February 8th, 2008
19

I wil get it played every other one so I can't wait cause this game looks f%&*ing Incredible.

posted 1:36pm EST - February 8th, 2008
20

I should reserve mine, or I'll have to wait longer, I think I am more excited about the online play more then anything though.

posted 2:35pm EST - February 8th, 2008
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@ hush404: PSU can't keep their game releases updated.  They just changed Army of Two's release date a day or so ago, because it said already released for a while now.

And GameStop has MGS4 set for June 17th.

posted 3:19pm EST - February 8th, 2008
22

Yeah that'd be right. Thats the press for ya.

posted 4:33pm EST - February 8th, 2008
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Hmm... well that sort of clears things up

posted 8:08pm EST - February 8th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... i think it will sell a lot of launch day but i doubt one million i reckon close on 800000 but i dont think they will get one million

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