Portable Ops crucial to Metal Gear Solid 4 story

Everything's connected. At least, according to
Kevin Bacon JJ Abrams Hideo Kojima. And, in order to fully understand the events of the amazing-looking
Metal Gear Solid 4 on the PS3, you'll have to buy yourself a PSP. The two upcoming PSP-exclusive
Metal Gear titles (
Digital Comic 2,
Portable Ops) will establish the story for the next-gen sequel. "We'd like you to definitely play it [the PSP games]," Kojima was quoted saying. "If you change the
Ops story, you have to change
4. If you change
4, it also becomes necessary to change
Ops. Until
Ops is finished,
4's story can't be finalized." We'll all get a taste of the
Guns of the Patriots' storyline when
Portable Ops hits the system in
December.
[Via
IGN]