Besides, sony has probably made some sort of agreement with konami that there wont be a port of any sort for at least 2 years. Keep in mind, kojima may be done with the series, but that doesnt mean he is all of a sudden gone from konami, he will still be there, and he will still have weight with the corporation.

Clearing up the trouble made PlayStation 3 profitable several months ago, giving the company room to cut prices, analyst Doherty said. Microsoft still loses money on each Xbox 360 it sells, he said.

While I don’t disbelieve Mr. Doherty, I don’t exactly believe him instead. It is possible that the PS3 is profitable. My guess is that the 80GB one is. Sony likes to get their consoles profitable quickly. If you’re not familiar with Acts of Gord, I suggest you read this article on console pricing (way back from before “360″ or “PS3″ were even rumoured about).

Announcing VF5 on 360 a month before the PS3 release only cannibalized their own sales and had fence sitters know they can wait for it on a cheaper console. However it wont have as big of an impact then since it will have more competition in the marketplace.

One interesting thing is Kojima studios probably wont have anything to do with a 360 port if Konami does go that route. It will be another sloppy port like MGS2 on xbox was.

One major reason it might not get ported though, Most of the PS3 doom-mongers don’t like to look at the bigger picture. PS3 is really only selling lower then 360 in North America, but they are selling about the same pace as 360 did in the same timeframe. MS can boast it is outselling PS3 2-1 at E3, then Sony announced sales have doubled since the price adjustment.

Looking at bloomberg, PS3 is now profitable for Sony to make, 360 isn’t for MS till next year, and that was before the 1 billion repair announcement. This leaves room for Sony to react on any 360 price drop, which is probably why MS didn’t follow Sony this week. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another cut this year, my guess is PS3 wont be too much more then a 360 next (not this) holiday season.

Enough of MSG speculation from me though. One thing that I noticed about this e3 is how many games Sony seems to be holding back for E4A and TGS. This leaves them room to keep momentum. GDC and E3 were both Solid shows for Sony and they still have a few more shows this year

Kojima himself said, he won’t do a “dvd version” of his game (instead of Theatre), and Konami are not those multiplatform “whores” like Capcom has become. And since MGS always was a system seller, they dont have to fear that much of having slow sales (especially since this game is only due next year after the XMas craze)