Metal Gear Solid 4 Xbox 360 version

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Posted on 2008-03-07


It’s good news that we now know MGS4 will be in the shops on the release date of June 12th, but Hideo Kojima hinted that he had trouble getting all of the game to fit onto a 50GB Blu-Ray disc! Hopefully this means the game will be crammed full of gameplay and not HD movie sequences and I guess this lays to rest the idea of a Metal Gear Solid 4 Xbox 360 version fitting on a DVD.

The only way Xbox 360 owners will be able to enjoy Metal Gear Solid 4 until an Xbox360 version is announced is to pay for the Xbox hardware hack which will enable you to play with Snake to your hearts content.

Metal Gear Solid 4 Xbox 360 version

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Comments

  1. On June 9, 2008 snake said: -
    well if lost odyssey is 4 discs or blue dragon on 3 discs then they can put metal gear solid 4 on the xbox 360 on a 3,4or 5 discs5 of discs
  2. On June 10, 2008 Soyrobin2001 said: -
    you know nothin about programing, on ps3 the developers don't compress the data so they can use more space on bluray discs, for example, assassins creed, dmc4, gta4, these are all on a single dvd9 on xbox 360.
  3. On June 10, 2008 snake said: -
    Lookin for ward to playin mgs4, feel sorry for xbox 360 users though, poor things r missing out. It def isnt coming to 360!!
  4. On June 11, 2008 UnknowablE said: -
    Well my dear xbox slash poor spelling fanboys.
    (note the lack of boi or z)

    MGS4 IS ps3 exclusive and all cinematic shots are in-game and I would just like to mention THE GAME IS SO FREAKING AWESOME HAHAHAHA I JUST WENT TO THE OPENING AND GOT A FREE COPY THE FOURTH IN AUSTRALIA TO GET ONE!!! well other than the retailers I guess r_r but that is beside the point :P
  5. On June 11, 2008 left4dead why do you take so long to make said: -
    i wish that metal gear solid 4 would come out for the 360 but its very unlikly.
    all the people who say that it should not come out for the 360 are fanboys because if they werent they would be happy that it possibly might be going to the 360 and the game company would earn more money witch would mean a better sequal (unless this is the last mgs).
    waited 2-3 years for left4dead and still planing on killing them all if they delay it.
  6. On June 12, 2008 Hermit said: -
    Japanese seems support japanese company.
  7. On June 12, 2008 ooSgtStevOoo said: -
    all i have to say is mgs4 rocks and if it dosent come out for the 360 im **** and ill have to spend so much cash for a **** console lol ps3 fanboys suck xbox360 ****
  8. On June 12, 2008 ooSgtStevOoo said: -
    IT WILL COME OUT ON 360
  9. On June 13, 2008 Neil said: -
    P....lease

    it's been released as a PS3 exclusive. all this jive talk of it being released on 360 is rubbish. plus i have both consoles so couldn't really give a ****. who in there right minds would pay for a 5 disc game to be released??? and having played on it since its release i can confirm to all the xbox fanboys (whatever that means) that it isn't slow it took 5 minutes to upload to my hardrive (120gb hard drive i thank you) and the FMV sequences are exactly the same graphic wise as the game as the seemlessly (in 90% of the cases) link into one another.

    go buy Saints Row 2 or something exclusive on the xbox if you that bothered or buy a PS3 or wait 12 months which by that time all the dl content will have been released ps3 owners will have unlocked everything and you can come back on here and say "we told you so" when no one really cares as we've finished the game on our higher spec systems.
  10. On June 13, 2008 Wolf said: -
    Hahaha, Ok, lay to rest that idea of this game coming to the Xbox...

    The game was full on the Blu-Ray alone...
    So that's be like 3 HD-DVDs... Then there is the graphical power the game takes... It pushes the CPU to the limit... So downgrade the graphics for the xbox 360... A... ******... lot...
  11. On June 13, 2008 gusto said: -
    you people have no lives, i feel sorry for all of you. i feel that much dumber for reading your comments. Get a life and go out, instead of living in fantasy video game land. This is all you guys look forward too, omg omg omg, a new video game. geez, get a life. Ill tell you what the best system and game is. Use your brain, make lots of money, take vacations, go to parties, go to vegas. Have fun in front of your TV's for the rest of your lives losers, lmfao.
  12. On June 14, 2008 Jeff said: -
    Konami announced that it will be released on the xbox 360, but most likely in 2009.
  13. On June 14, 2008 james_durnousow said: -
    look it will come out on 360 and there will also be a lower spec wii version because we all no wii had to sacrifice HD graphics to have its wii sensor wiimote thingy, and it will not come out on pc or ps2 but it will be released on wii and 360 next year so shut the **** up, and just for the record PC ***** all over ps3 360 and wii, the only difference is that its 3x the price, but its better
  14. On June 15, 2008 Will234 said: -
    okay one metal gear solid 4 will sell pretty damn fast and it is a good game but who the ****wants to buy a PS3 I mean hell if you want the game on xbox like me but be ready for a big shocker because it wont be because of the large memory it takes to all those who do have a PS3 however are lucky but for all those who still think that MGS4 will be on xbox just keep hopping because it wont
  15. On June 16, 2008 Dale Alan Maier said: -
    okay, all you PS3 fanboys are really ignorant. the only reason u guys dont want to believe that MGS4 is comin to the 360 is because you know if that happens, then u just wasted alot of money on a console that doesn't have as many A-List games as 360. Its got a couple but MGS4 is the best of them. And just to let u know, if u go to GAMESPOT, there is an interview with Hideo Kojima and he states that he is currently tryin to make MGS4 on other consoles (most likely the 360). By the way, the 360 has a faster GPU while the PS3 has blue-ray. The consoles are equally as good (i guess). anyways, everyone just needs to shut the f### up and accept that MGS4 is comin to the 360, whether it be sooner or later, it's still coming.
  16. On June 17, 2008 Taylor said: -
    To Everyone,

    1) It will be on Xbox 360, was announced from MGS4 Announcer so ****you ps3 fanboysd :P.

    2) Way up, with most games on xbox 360 they use cell shading to render most things, gears of war starts off as a cell shaded so does bioshock, big graphical games yet on a DVD-DL. And it's true, PS3 50gb Blu-ray is put onto a 10gb or less DVD-DL due to lower graphics or the like. It's just the way the console reads the data

    3)Gusto, simply stfu m8, gaming is just entertainment, agreed with people on 24/7 but again its's etertainment like any form

    4) James couldn;t agree with you more m8. PC just takes the cake in it all tbh.

    END OF DISCUSSION.
  17. On June 18, 2008 Richard said: -
    Taylor, you are an idiot.

    1) MGS4 will never come out for XBox, it simply doesn't have the capacity or capability to run the game. Period. This rumor has been squashed multiple times by Konami.

    2) Do you even know what Cell Shading is? No, none of the games you listed use cell shading, go back to school.

    3) A 50 GB Blu-Ray disc will not compress down to 10 GB or less on DVD, are you high or just incredibly stupid? It would take 6 DL-DVDs to hold the game.

    To the rest of you clowns...

    1) The cutscenes in MGS4 are ALL rendered IN GAME. That means there is no HD video stored on the disc for the cutscenes, so stop using that as the reason that there is so much data because you are wrong.

    2) Blu-Ray reads faster than DL-DVD. Let me repeat, BLU-RAY READS FASTER THAN DL-DVD. If you do the math (as I have done here: http://www.r3portfolio.com/?p=20) you will see that Blu-Ray reads at about 1.07 MBps faster than a DL-DVD.

    END OF DISCUSSION
  18. On June 19, 2008 Darwin said: -
    For everyone who's caught in the "war for the better gaming system," ....you're all nerds. Go out for a jog or something.
  19. On June 19, 2008 moshizzel said: -
    in my personal opinion, MGS4 may come on xbox 360, but probably after a year or so, so people could go buy a ps3, therefore there would be no compition. and fyi, Metal gear solid 2 substance was released for xbox a year after its initial release on ps2, and why the didn't make MGS3 substance on xbox? well its because MGS3 wasn't that great of hit as MGS2, check the scores on gamespot or ign. now that MGS4 has become a blockbuster, Konami would be smart to create a 360 version probalby lessing the graphics from blue ray to HD DVD which will probably cause the game to come out on 1-4 discs, i mean Lost Odyssey had 4 discs as well as Blue Dragon, so it would't be a surprise that Konami would make MGS4 on 360 with many discs. Anyways, I have both a ps3 and 360 and have to admit that MGS4 rockksss, but there are still great games on 360 too. If you haven't played MGS4, go rent it from a store like rentacity and rent MGS4 and play the game because it is truely a masterpiece, and the story is amazing. but Konami would get alot of profit if they made it out on 360. Hope this helps?
  20. On June 21, 2008 Peter said: -
    Who cares what console, we just wana play great games!!!
  21. On June 21, 2008 Dub G said: -
    Blog Geeks,
    Go to Gamespots website first: "http://www.gamespot.com/news/6191744.html?tag=result;title;0"

    It's a Hideo Kojima interview circa Reuters (more reliable than anyone here).
    Read a few more posts instead of the first few. You guys all sound dumb saying the same thing as someone before you. Hideo Kojima DID have an interview in which he contradicted all his other "final MGS chapter" saying that it will go on SO LONG AS USERS DEMAND IT. Hooo, sounds like all the money he's making on it may have changed his mind on something he apparently "firmly believed". Also, that he said his role in future games will take a backseat. So Kojima's exclusitivity and love of PS won't mean anything to Konami. I had an Xbox, PS2 and Gcube, and I bought Resident Evil 4 as a purely exclusive Gcube title. WOW, Gcube sales go down and suprisingly THEY PORT THE GAME to PS2 a year later. whoa... its almost like they're trying to make money. Not to mention PS3 markets MGS4 like a system-seller, yet UK sales (ya ****england but Japan, USA and UK are the big three gaming countries) are really bad and so are PS3 sales in relation. Don't take my word, check it out. Besides, keeping ****exclusive takes a lot of money if its through a third party. Think how many ports there have been of other "exclusives." While some most sites are JUMPING at the chance to crack news on this, all they do is just repeat the rumors you nerds are talking about. Go to some legit sites, there actually is no goddamn legit confirmation for a port. BUT there is also not a single legit denial. It's all "no comment" at this point, which makes sense because if its announced that there's a xbox version, who gives a *** about buying a system to own the game, not to mention initial sales (which they need desperately since the game costed so damn much to make) would drop significantly. Don't think from a gamers perspective (chump perspective) think like a market research team member or PR worker. Kojima's production team it HAS been confirmed (once again don't just take my word) is "currently has many projects in development for the xbox 360" Ya, no comment on their names. Hideo and Sony sitting in a tree? No. Future MGS projects and Kojima Prod. working with 360, have they been confirmed? Yes. Is there still a chance that Konami and Kojima Productions would make a bad business choice and stop a port? Yes. Read this XBOXfamily site though, "http://xboxfamily.com/xf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1123&Itemid=2". Ya know, the best part is, the more everyone talks about it online, the more Konami will consider it, since they used online chats to gather market research on making improvements on the MGS franchise anyways. O and for you "fanboys" I guess you're called, I have a PS3, I will buy MGS4 for it, not my 360, cuz I'm not waiting. My friend here will though and we wanted to research if it would port and we got pissed reading some of these posts looking for a goddamn answer haha. And if you want my personal opinion, PS3 is a better system (come on its damn smooth and very slightly better graphics), but MGS4 is its first truly anticipated game, and so it can't yet compete with the overwhelming amount of great (and I mean ****ing great) 360 games..... yet... that's why I have both haha
  22. On June 21, 2008 FijianDoce said: -
    real world example of metal gear for 360:

    get ur pillow and try to stuff it into a baked bean can(......
    chances are that you will never do it.

    same case for 50GB.
    you will never be able to compress 50GB into 8-9GB. it will never happen.

    the xbox could possibly run the game. but there would be a bit(a lot) of it missing.
    if you can manage to compress 50GB to 8GB or manage to get ur pillow into a baked bean can then put it on the internet, give me a link and i will go see it(not really but who cares).
  23. On June 23, 2008 Thane said: -
    Okay. So there's this game Oblivion on the 360. It's very big. There's mountains apon mountains and forests. There's also dungeons and over dozens of hours of questing to be done. It all fit on one DVD-9. When this game went to the PS3, it had to be put on the disc 4 times. 4! Just so the disc could be adiquately read. So lets see here. 50GBs (amount MGS4 (from what I've read here) takes up) divided by 4 is 12.5GB. So if this is somewhat correct, then MGS4 could probably fit on 2 discs. Maybe 3 considering all of the added voicework and better graphics that shall be seen. But seriously. Are you that lazy that you can't get up 2 or 3 times during the span of a 30 or so hour game to change a disc? If so, I reccomend the Wii Fit instead of Metal Gear (confirmed April 19, 2009 by the way)

    And to anyone throwing fanboy comments my way: I acknowledge that the 360 sucks. Mine freezes and crashes and sputters at least once a day. So yes. I know it's a fetid piece of garbage, but it has something the PS3 lacks: Games.
  24. On June 25, 2008 Philion said: -
    Well the 360 has more A-list titles than PS3 = Fact. Just check it out with the net or your local gamestore.

    Metal Gear Solid 4 is currently being made for wii and 360. Fact

    EA games have said they cant keep releasing games for 360 and PS3 at the same time due to converting windows based games over to linux. So they've decided to make the games for the 360 and PC FIRST then convert it over to PS3. This is what caused the delay for GTA4. Both Facts

    I aint bitching, these are just the truths what are happening. I dont own a 360 or a PS3 or Wii.

    Ps1 did well, Ps2 had a ropey start but 3rd party games saved it, Ps3 is too expensive for the average player and hasnt got the 3rd party support.
  25. On June 26, 2008 james_durnousow said: -
    no matter how much you console fanboys blabber about ps3 and 360, you do know that consoles will never live up to PCs, PC gamers like me sit back and laugh and your petty squables
  26. On June 26, 2008 Ezo said: -
    PC better than Console? Well ya if you have 800$ to upgrade your computer every year to play the games. I switched to console for that very reason. Not to mention there are games for 360/PS3 and wii for that matter that will nvr be on PC. Given there are games that are PC and will nvr come out on console, but there usually Real Time Strategy (Warcraft, Starcraft etc.) Ive been playing PC games since Alien Vs Predator 2, and i have to say console has almost completely caught up with PC. Dont get me wrong i luv computers but not for games anymore....mostly porn hehe :P
    Currently playing Ninja Gaiden 2- Dont hold your breath waiting for that to come out on pc.
  27. On June 27, 2008 Philion said: -
    true james, but when you need a new graphics card or processor, it can sometimes be painful when you need that upgrade. Unless money isnt an issue
  28. On June 27, 2008 Dan said: -
    I am not a 360 fanboy, but to people like snake who say things like "I feel bad for you 360 owners, you sure are missing out on a lot." **** you. Well snake, you are missing out on Gears of War, Bioshock, Halo 3 and many other great games that are exclusive to the 360. Metal Gear Solid 4 is great. I played it at my friends house. But honestly, it's nothing that special. I'm sure there are better games that are playable on the 360. Gears of War got a better review, so did GTA4 (Yes I know GTA4 is for the PS3 also) and also Bioshock got a much better rating. I truely would love to have a PS3, but I still think I don't want to get one just yet. I personally am not sure if I think Konami would port it to the 360, but if they did I'm sure that they would sell a lot of copies. Once again I am not a fanboy. If someone said something bad about the PS3 I would defend it.
  29. On June 28, 2008 Brendon said: -
    I have read through these comments and i think people are underestimating HD DVD these disk are not as big as blue ray but they are latge, thats another oprion to explore as the game may be able to be coded to play through thr HD 360 edition.

    Also i admit blye ray is great but sony has a history of releasing mediums exclisive to sont and they life cycle is significantly lower that the standard, ie DAT taprs and minidiscs, so blue ray may nbot be the be all and end all, time will tell.

    Last but not least playstation 3 is a great consol and there are great games like mgs4 however you cannot over look that xbox consols are far superoer in hardward and is overall the better consol and is xbox released all the playstation eclusives the xbox would be beteer by far
  30. On June 28, 2008 Conor said: -
    they will to release mgs4 and the 360 because if they did they would have to drastically reduce the quality of the game. and as its the last in the series i doubt they would.
  31. On June 29, 2008 james_durnousow said: -
    right now i need to upgrade my 8600GT to an 8800GT but i could get a 360 for the same price, and ill probably get both but i will get a 360 first, i love pcs and consoles but pcs generate way better graphics but consoles usually have better games.
  32. On June 29, 2008 Stupos! said: -
    Stupos! i mean seriously Xbox 360 rules but its probaly not happening.and if it does a ton of the game is going to be missing
  33. On June 29, 2008 Stupos! said: -
    Stupos! get lives! especially you dub G
  34. On June 29, 2008 stupos lol! said: -
    whoever wrote stupos! man im tototally using that. lol!
  35. On June 29, 2008 Chris said: -
    The question we should be asjing the developers is why would they not want to bring this game to the 360. Microsoft has had the 360 out for over2 years now, and that means that we have alot of people playing xbox. So it is kind of a no brainer to bring it to the 360.
  36. On June 29, 2008 Dave said: -
    I think Konami could easily put MGS4 on the XBOX 360. My impression on the game was that they crammed it full of HD cutscenes to claim that they maxed out the capabilities of the PS3 hardware. All they'd have to do is cut out like 7 hours of unnessecary cutscenes. Honestly, I was very unimpressed by MGS4. I thought that all the other Metal Gears were much more groundbreaking and innovative.
  37. On June 30, 2008 Chad said: -
    Dude. No. There isn't any HD cutscene stuff to fill up the disk. IT IS GAME PLAY RENDERED! NO MOVIE FOR YOU! The guy, can't remember who, who thought GRAW looked as good as MGS4 is a lunatic. GRAW is awesome, but graphically it is abysmal compared to MGS4.

    And PS3 fans do get a treat before too long, Bioshock- only a better PS3 optimized version of it- comes out this fall.
  38. On July 1, 2008 dale a maier said: -
    ok, youre all ignoring the interview with HIDEO KOJIMA stating that he is currently trying to port the game. Look it up goddammit, its on GameSpot.com!!! He says it himself! also, in an earlier interview, he said that "technically, MGS4 could run perfectly on the Xbox 360, nothing taken out. We would just have to switch it around." For the record, I do have a life. I just like games. They relieve stress. MGS4 IS coming to the 360, they just said it would take around 6 months to work everything around for it to work. also the ps3 may have blue-ray and an intense cell processor, but every developer on the planet says that 360 is way easier to work with and therefore, they can keep producing better graphics. yes, even better than the ps3. now, the ps3 is a very powerful system, but (from many developers) "incredibly hard to work with." i hope this all helps, and people, cant we all just get along???
  39. On July 3, 2008 Wesley said: -
    I saw MGS 4 the other day i expected much beter graphics then you ps3 fanboys give it credit for mi think it will work smoothly on the 360 infact , where there is a will there is a way
  40. On July 4, 2008 GreatWhiteSnark said: -
    So funny to watch the fan boys go at it - getting so pissy and mad at each other over a consumer product that they pay money to own. As an impartial owner of a Wii, a 360 & original Xbox, a PS2 & PSOne that hasn't made the leap to PS3 yet..... I can say this is honestly the only game that makes me want to get a PS3 right now.

    But with rumors swirling that Microsoft is already in production on a blu-ray xbox to come out in time for the holidays and Konami already in production on a Xbox version of the game.... I think I can wait.

    Last time around for MSG3 it was pure economics the exclusive license deal was worth more than the opening up to gamers on the M$ console. This time around. In the last gen PS2 had a monster lead in console base. This time 360 still to this date has a pretty firm grasp on the #1 slot, According the the May releases Xbox 360 19M consoles sold, PS3 9.2M. Think Konami can resist the $$$ that 19M represent? Especially when the 360 is killing the PS3 at a 16:2 ratio of platinum selling titles.

    Both consoles are great.... get over it already.

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