Message from @Towelie
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Hmm, didnt know that
@Alibaba its not just about Konami, its leaks in general.
MGS4 is an all time exclusive from Sony but that's not all. There's too many easter eggs and references to Sony and especially the Playstaiton systems in the game. When you control Mk.II or Mk.III, Snake is using a PS3 Sixaxis controller, Sunny use a PSP, Otacon conversation on codecs tells you to swap your disc in shadow moses and then correct himself to say that it's a PS3 game and that it uses blueray, and because of that, there's no need to swap discs anymore, etc.
So even if Sony didn't invest money, time and research to help to make MGS4 on PS3 for the launching release of the console, it would be hard to remove all those references to port it to another console.
you could argue that it'd be easy enough to swap the assets models for the games, delete Otacon codec call easter eggs, etc. But then again, this game wasn't done with a portable game engine (like the fox engine) and was made directly to work for PS3. Porting that to another console would mean redevelop the game practially from scratch.
so stop dreaming, move on, and wait for PS3 emulation to progress enough to be able to play the game on your PC
Its not hard to swap models and take out a codec conversation
Just cut out the coding for the codec thing
And weve seen regular people, mind you, not proffesional game designers, do model swaps.
I wouldnt know how to do it, but Im SURE there are people who do.
And how does that make MGS4 an official release on other platforms?
that still doesn't change the fact that MGS4 was developped with PS3 API directly and porting the game to another console would mean redevelop the game completly.
or develop the PS3 game API into a portable game engine, which is even worse time and money consuming wise
so, if the game didn't belong to Sony (because they paid, helped, etc), if the sony reference can be removed, it still means that Konami would have to pay to develop the game from scratch again. But since it's a Sony all-time exclusive anyway, that kind of debate is useless
just like people thinking that Death Stranding will be released on PC and or X1, they are just dreaming.
it'll probably be on PS Now on PC, but that's it.
@dunce excuse me, what?
@Towelie mmm, ok. Well, the people who think DS will be on anything else but PS4 and PS Now are idiots, because it has outright been said that its a ps4 exclusive.
and it was outright said that MGS4 was a Sony all-time exclusive too, still, 10 years later, people still wait and complains...
the difference is that Sony doesn't hold the right for "metal gear" franchise and Konami could still release a remake of the game (not a port though because Sony contributed to MGS4 development), but are they willing to do that ?
Sony hold the rights for Death Stranding because KojiPro is now a first party studio of SIE so here lies the only minor difference.
I don't know the details of the contract Konami did have with Sony at that time, but I doubt they would even be able to reuse the assets they made for the game.
I never heard that
Granted I was 6 when it came out lol
Kojima mentionned multiple times that he always had a good relationship with Sony and went more specific once or twice saying that Sony CTO helped with MGS4.
as for the exclusivity : http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/e3-mgs4-ps3-exclusivity-confirmed
Sony US CEO confirmed it in front of a tons of journalists, yet people were still speculating...
I was 6 when that happened
Kojima releasing trailer at Sony's conference at E3, etc
Or maybe 5
and people were still beliving that the game would go to 360 even after that...
dreaming people...
And he deleted it
It was a fan trailer
Top kek
When will those supposed leaker will ever learn to use a tripod or just learn to align a frame...
if this is true, this might be another interesting purchase
maybe