MGS Portable Ops+ gets dated, no MGS4 PSN demo

by Dan Dormer { Oct 18th 2007 at 12:23PM }

Do you remember when your fake ID couldn't fool the bouncer, leaving you outside sober, cold, and distanced from the girl you were looking to at least play ball with? That's kind of how we're feeling right now, after learning on the latest Kojima Productions podcast that there are no plans to bring a demo of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to the PlayStation Store prior to launch.

Host Ryan Payton stated: "I can tell you, as of right now, we don't have any plans of uploading this demo on the PlayStation Store." And definitely, he added, no plans of "uploading [on PSN] next week." His statements were echoed by Konami's new flak master, Michael Shelling, adding "[E for All] is going to be your one chance to actually play it prior to it launching next year."

Yeah, while this news is certainly a crushing blow to the Metal Gear Solid fan base (many of which help run Joystiq), there was at least a little positive news: Shelling revealed that Konami has gone gold with Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops+, and is planning to release the game on November 13. That's a little antiseptic to the wound, no?

Tags: BreakingNews, KojimaProductions, konami, MetalGearSolid4, MGS4, PSN

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

blooh (CDF - Nipple Ring) @ Oct 18th 2007 12:29PM

by this point people should know whether they like mgs or not. I don't. But if they're not sure, they can play the old ones, as long as they didn't get the 40gb ps3

FOXHOUND @ Oct 18th 2007 12:59PM

Agreed. I chalk it up to the same folks who enjoy HALO, FINAL FANTASY, any Nintendo 1st Party Titles, and etc. I really don't think too many people are on the fence about these titles... It's a matter of whether you like it or you don't. I'm fine with not having a demo, since I'll be playing MPO+ probably up until that point.

Jack @ Oct 18th 2007 1:20PM

Yeah but I don't want a demo to see if I'm going to like the game. I want the demo for some MGSForeplay before the big passionate night.

Michael C. Sherrin @ Oct 18th 2007 1:54PM

I agree. I think Konami can be pretty confident gamers know Metal Gear Solid 4 will be the must-have PS3 game. Now a demo for Lair would have been a lot more helpful. It might have helped people experience and understand the controversial motion controls (which I personally liked). But yay for Portable Ops+. I still haven't bought the first one, so now I have a + reason to!

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DangerMouse @ Oct 18th 2007 2:14PM

Demos are only good if they're going to entice the player into purchasing the game. If it'll deter the possible consumer from spending 60 bucks, then it's a terrible idea. ET:Quake Wars lost my interest with the demo they released. Good for me, not for them.

bean @ Oct 18th 2007 12:34PM

so you're sad because a major title isn't putting out a demo, just like all major titles? I'm kind of glad there's no demo. Part of the fun of playing these games is experiencing everything for the first time when you get the game, not through some cocktease demo

blooh (CDF - Nipple Ring) @ Oct 18th 2007 12:36PM

most xbox games these days put out demos, and they usually increase sales. Like stranglehold, nobody knew if that would be fun or not, and it turned out it was, especially if you hate fruit :)

bean @ Oct 18th 2007 12:54PM

yeah, I said major titles. Sure, most shitty xbox games get demos, but did Halo? I should have said established franchises.

NATO_Duke @ Oct 18th 2007 12:57PM

The Halo3 Beta was more or less a demo for people, since it was handed out to widespread and was stable.

bean @ Oct 18th 2007 1:07PM

that was more for the benefit of the game, to get glitches taken care of and to tweak certain aspects of the game. It wasn't released to everyone as a demo with the intent to have people get a taste of Halo.

NATO_Duke @ Oct 18th 2007 12:40PM

How long till someone comes to say that the demo isn't being released because the game sucks? C'mon....its gonna happen.

ill trooper @ Oct 18th 2007 12:45PM

We will never know for sure now that your comment has tainted the experiment.

CaptainAmericaX @ Oct 18th 2007 12:46PM

Lol...FINE I'll bite.

The demo is not being released because the game probably isn't the trouble.

There I said it...happy now?

I must admit though I thought this was coming out in 2008?

And why is this not on a single bluray disc with MGS4? I mean for all the harping that Joystiq does about the extreme extra s[ace that bluray provides they're not capable of putting a single game together that has both the 1 player and Multiplayer components?

Cyro @ Oct 18th 2007 1:01PM

Well, I dont know really how many hours of game play it will have. Probably like 2 hours of gameplay and 65 hours of cut scenes. This more of a movie than a game. But hey thats what PS3 fanboys like right? Movies. Because thats all that door stop really does is play blu-ray movies.