Comments on: Henning’s PS3 Soapbox – E3 Predictions

By: matt

matt — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:44:51 +0000

Metal Gear Solid has already been a multiple disc game. MGS on the Playstation was multiple discs.

Unfortunately Sony is slipping after their launch and developers are scrambling to hit numbers that they need to hit to turn a profit. MGS4 is not that big of a loss to the PS3 if it goes multiplat. I wouldn’t pick up a PS3 if it stays exclusive and not that many will either. MGS4 will move some consoles but a game like Gran Turismo will be a system seller.

From what I have heard numerous times is that a PS3 -> 360 port is much, much easier than 360 -> PS3. If it only costs a few million to introduce a game to over 12 million + 360 owners the investment is very worth it. I really don’t see how they make a huge profit on the PS3 alone. There just aren’t enough systems.

MGS4 costs how many millions to make, Twenty, Thirty? I hope this makes sense. This shouldn’t happen after the PS3 has 20 million + systems. Right now there are not enough PS3s to cover development costs.

In reality this only hurts fanboys. This takes away their bragging rights as to which games their system has that the others don’t. As long as it looks, sounds, and plays awesome who cares!

By: HudsonDaly

HudsonDaly — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:17:29 +0000

Why are people speculating that MGS4 will go to xbox360? IT IS NOT POSSIBLE ON A DVD9! I can’t believe you ignorant people are expecting it to go multi platform. Has any of you been to any of the PS3 forums? They’ve discussed it at least 10,000 times and IT WILL NOT HAPPEN! Kojima said so himself that he has NO interest, absolute no interest in porting it over to the 360. It would require the 360 to have multi disks, and that is NOT his intentions. It’s exclusive. Please ignorant people, shut up.

By: PSN ID=LifEndz

PSN ID=LifEndz — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:58:36 +0000

After Madden and VF5, I’m sort of coming to grips with the PS3 getting bad news from 3rd parties. If Konami does take their product to 360 then, like you said, there’s nothing we can do.

By: bobeotm

bobeotm — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:02:24 +0000

I’m sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say “look at the oblivion port to the PS3″.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:09:22 +0000

Oblivion was released the same day on 360 and PC and it sold more copies on 360 by a large margin.

I am really hoping for the $100 price cut and a new controller with rumble. Once those things hit the box I may pick one up. Games still take a huge importance and there still isn’t enough exclusive stuff to justify the purchase for me. Most of their exclusives are not my type of games.

I am really hoping for a few surprises from Sony.

By: Segitz

Segitz — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:06:47 +0000

Imho, you cannot compare Capcom to Konami.

Konami wasnt as much multiplatform as Capcom was, last generation. Some games were (like MGS2S) yet most were platform exclusive. I think, Konami knows, that a) MGS4 will sell many consoles, so the game wont suffer that much that way and b) they will surely later on sell a MGS4 PS3 bundle (as with MGS2 back in time) and again make good money.

Kojima himself always did system exclusives (okay, I ignore the MSX2 games here, but I think, this is ok), I think, he prefers just working with one console to worry about and to get it to the maximum.

By: bobeotm

bobeotm — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:33:05 +0000

I am sure MGS4 will stay exclusive, if it doesnt it will be at least several months later when it makes it to the 360 if not a year. And we all know how people stop caring when a game comes out a year later on another system (look at the past GTA games, look at the Oblivion port to the 360, or how much less the Resident Evil 4 port did on PS2). Those long timed exclusives often get played by most who want to play it, and the added audience often opts out due to it being out so long ago, or lost interest.

My predictions are short and sweet

Rumble 90% This is simply happening, no question about it, the question is when?

Killzone actually coming close to the tech demo %30 (with games like gears and the newest call of duty looking amazing, its possible to get something impressive but perhaps not exactly like the cg trailer)

PSP redesign 50% If its not now, its definitely at TGS

Price Cut 100% Its happening, and its happening immediately

New property coming out this year that was not previously announced %70 Sony said this would be so.

By: Pc

Pc — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:59:00 +0000

MGS 4 WILL NOT BE MULTIPLATFORM GUYS….just because DMC did, doesn’t mean the rest will follow…..im sure sony was smart enough to make a deal on that title