Released exclusively on PlayStation, this Metal Gear Solid could also have appeared on Xbox

game news Released exclusively on PlayStation, this Metal Gear Solid could also have appeared on Xbox

What if Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was released on Xbox 360? Well, that question obviously really arose, and it was Konami who decided to only release the title on PlayStation 3.

MGS 4 wasn’t just planned for PS3

Historically, the The Metal Gear Solid franchise has strong ties to PlayStation consoles in the minds of players, but Kojima’s games are very often also published on other platforms. Released in 2008, Metal Gear Solid 4: Weapons of the Patriots

he was actually exclusive to PlayStation 3. And yet it seems so originally not planned that way …

The book The Ultimate History of Video Games Volume 2 actually covers the game with Solid Snake. In the book we find one Interview with Ryan Paytonthe producer of MGS 4. He says that Konami has seconded a team Investigate the feasibility of porting to the Xbox 360, during development on PS3. It appears that the developers in question were not not very enthusiastic about the idea, PlayStation fans, did it anyway, forced by their management. they had My main fear is that the game will go wrong on the Microsoft console. Gold, that was her fault. Ryan Payton tells:

Although my colleagues were put off by the development on the PS3, most of them were still die-hard Sony fans and didn’t want to devote resources to such a test.

They thought Metal Gear Solid 4 would look very bad visually and run poorly on Microsoft’s outdated and less powerful hardware.

One fateful day, Konami’s R&D team held a meeting where we could see the fruits of their labor – Metal Gear Solid 4 ran perfectly and very smoothly on an Xbox 360.

PS3 Blu-Rays won, Solid Snake won’t settle for 4 DVDs

SO Why haven’t we seen Metal Gear Solid 4 on the Xbox 360 before? You might think that Sony spent an enormous amount of money to get its console exclusivity… but that’s not the case at all! It is Konami who gave it up. In fact, we must remember the context at the time. There Generation Xbox 360 / PS3 was not just a power war By the calculation it was also a Battle of the physical formats. The Xbox 360 made the mistake of settling for that Games stored on DVD-ROMs

where the PS3 (though later released) was sold Games on Blu-Ray ROMa Sony proprietary format. Spoiler alertThe Blu Ray won, as the following Xbox consoles will also choose this format for their physical games. Even if today the dematerialized is widespread at that time Publishers thought about their physical sales in priority. THE PS3 BD-ROMs could hold 54GB of content, while Xbox 360 DVD-ROMs were limited to 8.3GB.

For this reason, Konami decided against it do not publish the game on the Microsoft consolerefused to Publish the game on multiple discs (probably to avoid additional costs even if other publishers did). MGS 4 actually weighed in thirty gigabytes, then a very large size. you may remember Jack Thirteen (President of Sony Computer Entertainment America from 2006 to 2014) also had announced the information at the time without saying it openly. He was content with this sentence, which now has its full meaning: “Metal Gear Solid 4 is not exclusive to the PS3. This is only possible on the PS3, thanks in part to Blu-Ray“.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was only released on PS3 and is currently not planned anywhere else. On the other hand, Konami recently announced the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, MGS Delta: Snake Eater, for PS5, Xbox Series and PC.