Next Metal Gear PSP title to be a digital comic

by James Ransom-Wiley { Nov 17th 2005 at 1:30PM }

Liam over on PSP-Vault has filled us in on his prediction about the upcoming Metal Gear title for the PSP that we announced yesterday. It turns out that Kojima lists the game as "Metal Gear Solid BD" on his personal blog, and in an interview with Famitsu magazine, he revealed a partnership with Frank Miller that will produce a "digital comic" version of Metal Gear Solid for the PSP. In addition, Sony has registered "PSPMagazines," "PSPBooks," and "PSPComics" as trademarks in Japan, and this past weekend, the PSP Contents Viewer was announced at the G-Star convention in Korea (see "Read" link).

Liam believes that the new Metal Gear Solid title will make use of the PSP Contents Viewer, and indeed, will be a digital comic, not a game. The PSP Contents Viewer will likely be introduced in a future firmware upgrade. Sorta a letdown, no?

[UPDATE: In French, comics are called Bandes Dessinés, often shortened to "BDs." Anyone know if Kojima has a French fetish? Thanks phil fish!]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jay @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

what a jolly crap idea :)

Jack @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

That sucks, but I'm kinda disappointed with the psp as whole, guess I might sell it off since I havent seen any good games for me or even really use it aside from an internet browser.

Zachary @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

An incredible letdown.

BXJoseff @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

What a bunch of crap. Hideo must be brain fried producing and directing MGS4 so he can't really put anytime into any other types of MG games, hence the retarded Ac!d games, this is my opinion of course, cuz I bought the game at launch and TRIED my very best to get with the program and I just can't do this Yugioh shit...I just can't.
Now a full fledged MGS game on PSP? Would have been damn swell--guess I'll just wait for Ubisoft to work on Splinter Cell for PSP instead...

sauer @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

WOW is there anything the PSP can't do??? Besides playing interesting games of course

AceMilo @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

The psp has been more than a disappointment for me at least, and the announcement of mgs for psp actually got me happy. My psp has been shelved for about a month now, and if it weren't for homebrew I wouldn't have been using it this long. I haven't bought a game since launch since the games have SUCKED so bad. Anyway, this is just more disappointment from sony, should have known better than to get my hopes up. Looks like the psp is gonna stay on the shelf for a while longer. At least my xbox360 comes in a few days!

mike @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

BWahhhahhhhaaaaa hahahahaahhh ha ha ha

Sense @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

Okay, let me get this straight, with the PSP I can:

-Play watered down versions of games I've already played, sometimes costing more than the console counterparts

-Play movies that don't have the special features of DVDs and cost almost as much

-Pay what will probably be an extremely high price to READ a comic book that I could probably purchase for less than five dollars at a comic book store.

I hate to say it, but PSP sucks. That's why mine is on eBay right now. I'm going to get me a DS. I'm sorry I ever convinced my Mom to get me a PSP for graduation. I totally bought into the PSP sexy hype machine and now I am bathing in its mediocrity.

I know people like the God of War guy will make some great games for it, but there's good stuff on DS now.

If I want to read comics on a handheld I'll get a cheap PDA that can download them from the internet for free thank you.

Lauri Savolainen @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

@ Sense

PDA that costs significantly less than 200€ and is good enough to read comics? Holy crap.

arg! @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

This is super old news.

JRM @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

It may be a hit in japan, since they totally love their Manga over there--and there are so many themes for the different classes of readers, but for the US? Unless "Oprah's book club" comes to the PSP I don't see this being any good at all for the US market.

Then again, some people would say the same about Nintendogs and "Brain Training" and other alternative titles for the DS...

lyam @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

And the anti-psp brigade comes out in full force. Do you guys work for Nintendo? Microsoft?

PSP sucks? Whatever. Take your opinion and go sell your PSP.

DownloadingData @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

wtf? psp comic?
now the "gaming console" has been converted to a picture viewer?

gg man gg.

Stanislav @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

I don't have any game consoles (except a sega genesis) and my computer is a mac so all these games are new to me (except for that crack whore mistress, World of Warcraft)

I got GTA for the PSP and had never played it before, especially when I was called a "bitch" for my bad driving. That was funny and worth it just for that. I even got Madden and other than the slow load times, it's pretty good.

So yes, the PSP has been languishing for a while but now it's starting to get good.

JulioC @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

Jesus, they werent joking when they said the PSP would be a portable PS2. Because thats all it is...

and for the price of a PSP and a 1gb memory stick you can get an Ipod video AND a DS (which I did).

-Games?
PS2 rehashes, nothing uniwue (unlike the ds, go and compare the top scores of the PSP and DS games on gamespot.com, for the DS there are 20 games that have a score of 7 and above, PSP? 5 games)

-Internet?
Doesnt work from where I am, why would I browse with something I cant see past my forum avatar?

-Movies?
My video Ipod's with every Babylon 5 episode (ripped) and Lost from Itunes, which I can watch on my computer and my TV. Doesnt help Sony's memory sticks price equals an Ipod here.

-MP3 player?
I still have 15gb left in my Ipod, even though in it there's every classic rock album and the aforementioned tv episodes.

Sony had the sexiest thing alive, yet they ruined it by:
-No hd, even the nano has 2-4gb!
-No stylus (DS wins hands down with RTS and FPS coming out, and web browser)
-No games!! Dammit, I lined up 3 hours to get one, then seeing the games it had I left empty handed.
Someone should wkae Sony up and get them to save the PSP already.