Geriatric neck-snapping spy news now, with Konami of Japan announcing a delay in Solid Snake's arrival on the PlayStation 3. The
press release coldly increments the previously
expected Q1 release of
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to Q2 2008, sparing little thought as to the taste of bitter tears and follicle-wrenching pain we had to endure whilst reading it. There's some consolation to be found in the assurance that the delay will allow "further improvements to the quality of the game and provide even greater enjoyment for more customers worldwide."
Konami further promises that pushing
Metal Gear Solid 4 into the April-June arrival window will ensure it "meets everyone's expectations." We certainly hope so, as our expectations have been sitting at the airport with nothing to do for years now but read
interviews with Ryan Payton.
[Via
PS3 Fanboy]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Jeff @ Oct 31st 2007 7:34AM
Maybe they'll stop being complete and utter tools and combine multiplayer with it?
Nope, definitely not. That's the right of being the only good game on the ps3, I guess. They kind of have to sell it twice to make profit.
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Oct 31st 2007 8:07PM
Ouch. That was surprisingly harsh Jeff.
Orlando Torres @ Oct 31st 2007 7:34AM
Ding - Ding - Ding!
Cuddlefish @ Oct 31st 2007 7:37AM
A delayed PS3 game that doesn't use Unreal Engine 3 tech?
FOXHOUND @ Oct 31st 2007 7:42AM
I'm just as 'perplexed'.
Superuser @ Oct 31st 2007 7:42AM
There are enough games coming until then... at least for my taste.
James @ Oct 31st 2007 8:41AM
Stay in there champ.
Jerk Face @ Oct 31st 2007 9:04AM
@ James
LOL
Ethan @ Oct 31st 2007 11:35AM
Stay down, Rocky! Stay down!
theGreenGrunt @ Oct 31st 2007 7:44AM
DelayStation strikes yet again... Sigh...
Slaziman @ Oct 31st 2007 8:29AM
Damn, you beat me to it by a minute
baby sea tuna @ Oct 31st 2007 8:38AM
No! We're gonna spin this!
From here on out, it will be known as...The PotentialStation!!
Slaziman @ Oct 31st 2007 8:44AM
Haha, that's actually a perfect description for it. Great hardware, great potential, but...
michas_pi @ Oct 31st 2007 10:15AM
"DelayStation"
That's fucking genius.
Slaziman @ Oct 31st 2007 7:45AM
That's the Delaystation 3 for ya :/
Well, it's good that it was delayed and not released with less quality, right?
tc @ Oct 31st 2007 7:46AM
"There's some consolation to be found in the assurance that the delay will allow "further improvements to the quality of the game and provide even greater enjoyment for more customers worldwide"
thats a novel idea!
SKI @ Oct 31st 2007 7:52AM
"Konami further promises that pushing Metal Gear Solid 4 into the April-June arrival window will ensure it will appear on the Xbox 360."
I fixed it for you.
CaptainAmericaX @ Oct 31st 2007 9:29AM
LOLZ!
Ants @ Oct 31st 2007 10:42AM
lmao i was gonna say the same thing!
MGS4 on 360 FTW!
Triforceowner @ Oct 31st 2007 9:34PM
Oh, shit, dude, that actually makes sense to what was aid. Reading between the lines or reading too far?
Milkshake @ Oct 31st 2007 8:02AM
Delaystation 3 = This is Living...Without
Banstyle @ Oct 31st 2007 8:07AM
Wow, someone needs to get fired for that one. They just don't have their act together.. and PS3 really needs that game.
ToastyBuffoon @ Oct 31st 2007 8:09AM
This is waiting.
Van Faulk @ Oct 31st 2007 8:14AM
I thnk this may be my fault. i bought a ps3 this week so I could play mgs4 when it came out netx year...I think god is punishing me by delaying the game.
On a side note: JESUS FUCK, SONY! Give Konami more guys. Just start shoveling them on so they can complete the game on time. You need this. You think killzone and LBP are really going to be the breakout hits you need to sell a device that expensive?
tcc3 @ Oct 31st 2007 8:20AM
Read The Mythical Man Month
http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2077376-2045741?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193833064&sr=8-1
You cant just throw manpower at a software deadline. This is just poor planning / management on someones part.
Is the PS3 really this hard to program for? I mean wasnt this originally a launch title?
SKI @ Oct 31st 2007 8:23AM
He's punishing you for paying that much now for something that won't be out until next year.
xXSpartanF13Xx @ Oct 31st 2007 8:19AM
OK everybody settle down the PS3 has great games coming out just wait till FF & Metal Gea......HUH WTF??!!!!
CaptNink @ Oct 31st 2007 11:03AM
LOL!
Chimp @ Oct 31st 2007 8:20AM
YES! XBOX360 CONFIRMED!!!
WHO NEEDS BLU-RAY?!?!?!
Just check out the leaked 360 box art:
http://www.n4g.com/M/8/Comments/164000/164840--1.jpg
Slaziman @ Oct 31st 2007 8:30AM
old :( but still funny hahaha
James @ Oct 31st 2007 8:39AM
Wait, if each one of them discs was a DVD9 then it'd be 180gb? I really doubt MGS4 is 180gb, that wouldn't even fit on a Blue Ray disc...
I don't think Konami have heard of compression. I mean if visually stunning games like Crysis and epic roaming games like Oblivion can fit on a DVD9 then where on Gods earth is the space going on Blue Ray games?
embassy @ Oct 31st 2007 9:14AM
luckily, only disc one contains the game.
the other 18 discs are full of CG cutscenes.
Optimaximal @ Oct 31st 2007 6:58PM
CGI...
...because the PS3 doesn't have the graphical power to do ingame cutscenese
James @ Oct 31st 2007 8:33AM
Hah.
Hahahahha.
It's very very hard to not feel sorry for Sony. But then you remember they shut down Lik Sang (to quote Maddox) because "they committed the mortal sin of selling Japanese PSPs to European gamers. Oh no! Not that!"
Slaziman @ Oct 31st 2007 8:34AM
cue Sheppy explaining that Lik Sang did a lot of other things and got sued by Nintendo too.
James @ Oct 31st 2007 8:41AM
They did. But Nintendo (wisely enough) didn't produce the PSP which got Lik Sang shut down. Nintendo, Sony and MS's court cases were years before the PSP was even out and everything was sorted. Till Sony didn't want people to buy PSPs anymore (thankfully a trend which is continuing).
FidliousWong @ Oct 31st 2007 9:10AM
The Nintendo, Microsoft, and Nintendo lawsuit was settled in 2005... hardly years before PSPs launch.
And I don't know, other online retailers took the cease and desist to heart, Lik-Sang refused. They've never refused Nintendo's Cease & Desist letters.
dave @ Oct 31st 2007 8:38AM
Anyone wanna tell me what ive got to look forward for this xmas with my PS3. MGS 4 LOOKED FUCKING AMAZING
Slaziman @ Oct 31st 2007 8:40AM
Asassins Creed, Uncharted
November releases
Jerk Face @ Oct 31st 2007 9:08AM
If your tree is crooked, you can just put the PS3 under one leg of the stand to fix it.
Heh.
Jerk Face @ Oct 31st 2007 9:10AM
OOH! Or maybe you could turn it upside down and use it's smoothly polished surface as a wicked sled!
Jerk Face @ Oct 31st 2007 9:12AM
And all those 360 owners can use their incredibly hot RROD'ed systems to roast chestnuts!
They keep coming ladies and germs!
DemonGSides @ Oct 31st 2007 11:01AM
To bad not a one was funny.
DBX00 @ Oct 31st 2007 8:41AM
People have played a demo for the game that had no issues, so this isn't a development issue. It's more likely a business response to the fact that several titles have been pushed back to the Jan. - March timeframe and they want to take advantage of the hardware sales from that window and release when no other title will take away from the MGS marketing push.
JJ Rooster @ Oct 31st 2007 9:20AM
Agreed. Not enough people own PS3's for their liking, so they wait. They admit it themselves when they want to "...provide even greater enjoyment for more customers worldwide." Key word MORE. As in the current install base sucks and we won't make our money back! Pathetic shame.
copa @ Oct 31st 2007 10:57AM
Exactly, DBX00. Konami delayed their flagship title for three months because they were terrified they wouldn't get any publicity or sales if they had to go head to head with the Army Of Two juggernaut.
Tell me more about Tretton's 10 year plan, again?
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Oct 31st 2007 3:04PM
You do realize the whole "...provide even greater enjoyment for MORE customers worldwide" could be implying a multiplatform release.
And if sales at Christmas are as low as many are projecting, you can bet that that likelyhood will increase exponentially.
Van Faulk @ Oct 31st 2007 8:44AM
We can play resistance....it will be like it is LAST christmas! But now, we know there are better games to be playing.
Van Faulk @ Oct 31st 2007 8:46AM
That's incredibly stupid. It's MGS4. It doensn't need to fear being overshadowed...it IS THE SHADOW. It overshadows other games. Is anyone gonna give a shit about army fo two or blacksite ps3 when this comes out? Hell no. It's the closest thing the ps3 has to halo....other games should be making room for IT, not the other way around.
Slaziman @ Oct 31st 2007 8:56AM
lmao at "it IS THE SHADOW" xD MGS4 ftw