I saw that live on gamespot E3 live Microsoft press conference & PS3 fans gonna be upset with it.

too late to spread it in pc enviroment,,,, its not sparkling as before... other pc game title will knock out tis one...

PS3 become worst, if kojima dont expand his metal gear to other platform his kojima production might go down as well

FOR PC? FOR REAL???? OMFG!!!!

I bet the requirement is high

So what does our sonyfriends has to say about this?
PS3 HAS NO G - - - - ?

it gonna be pirated as hell ;$
loL
i thought they said Metal Gear Solid GunS of patriot is the last one??

meh i am not a fan of console games.

Metal Gear's sohai storyline makes brains asplode

gametrailers.com lists that MGS Rising is only for X360 ans PS3  !?!?  :'(

any reliable source to stop me crying? I WANT PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 bad reason for not getting this original

bad port.

1 bad reason for not getting this original

bad port.

what is bad port?

what is bad port?

When a console game is remade/reconfigured into a PC game or vice versa, there would sometimes be a problem with a game. Awkward camera and controls, inconsistent framerates, etc. And that means it is badly ported into the other platform. Or something like that.

and if that's true, good news for PC gamers, I'm definitely buying this~

Should really port the rest of Metal Gear Solid to PC.

Kinda sucks to have part of the collection.

So far, I know that Metal Gear Solid 1 and Metal Gear Solid 2 are on PC.

lol no way 3 and 4 will enter pc if 4 enters pc the graphics will drastically drop and many pc gamers might not like 4 :| my hardkore pc gamer friend did not like it complain from cg1-end

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Added on June 17, 2010, 9:12 amhttp://e3.gamespot.com/story/6265355/new-metal-gear-solid-rising-details-revealed-at-konami-conference

in case any 1 missed it mgs rising was at 2.34 u can search from 2.34 if your lazy to read trough

Good graphics do not necessary mean a good game.

I couldn't finish MGS1, got my friend to finish it for me while I sit back and enjoy the story.

PC got HDD.. =.= wat the use of bluray disc?
todays games are stored in HDD, not like the oldies which half HDD and half CD/DVD

so u expect em to sell the game in HDD?
they still need to distribute it via blueray/ DvDs

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Added on June 17, 2010, 1:40 pmps: ps3 do have its own HDD as well "

Quite difficult to distribute Bluray on PC.

Not 100% of PCs in the market are equipped with BluRay.

However, 100% PS3s are equipped with BluRay.

Also, these days many original games for PC are on digital distribution service providers such as Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive and etc.

a dual layer blueray = 50gig and the mgs4 maxed it out...
so i doubt its feasible to distribute 50gig worth of data digitally...

You'll be surprised these days.

I have downloaded 20gb for a single game from Steam before (I think it was Napoleon or something)

20g of 50g = 40%

oh ya just remembered mgs4 comes with its online mode as well...
cutting those might save a few gigs...
and unless u guys played MGS1-3, u won't enjoy MGS4 at all...
its the epic story that makes the magic in mgs4 (especially the shadow mosses stage)

Good graphics do not necessary mean a good game.

I couldn't finish MGS1, got my friend to finish it for me while I sit back and enjoy the story.

Quite difficult to distribute Bluray on PC.

Not 100% of PCs in the market are equipped with BluRay.

However, 100% PS3s are equipped with BluRay.

Also, these days many original games for PC are on digital distribution service providers such as Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive and etc.

well addressing 2 things at once i did not say the game is good because of graphics, its the engine that cannot be ported to the xbox360 they will have to remove too much from the game to be able to port the engine and that would make the game dull kojima addressed this quite a while back, so if he was to implement the engine and release it for the pc also not every pc will be able to support it and forcing people to buy better pc's just to play a game would be cruel, look at shattered horizon not doing so well after setting such high standards for the minimum requirements of their game.

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Added on June 17, 2010, 3:32 pm
and this is the reason too, how many people posting here have a bluray drive? i dont have one, and uploading 50gb worth of content is just crazy.

Difficult but not impossible with Steam. Given that most of us probably have downloaded around 100gb and above from Steam.

that is not at once. that should be around the course of what 3-4 years of using steam? 50gb dl in malaysia will just take forever to finish.

Nope, from my experience probably 5-6 days on a 2MB line.

I'm quite way behind the loop when it comes to PS3 development, but last I heard (Like a really REALLY long time ago, so please correct me if I'm wrong), most games don't fully utilize the BR disc completely and instead create duplicate sections of data to reduce data read times in order to compensate for the low disc read speed of the drive.

So, if that's the case, there's a high chance the total download won't be as large as a full BR disc and since you can take advantage of compression and whatnot, could go even smaller.

I'm quite way behind the loop when it comes to PS3 development, but last I heard (Like a really REALLY long time ago, so please correct me if I'm wrong), most games don't fully utilize the BR disc completely and instead create duplicate sections of data to reduce data read times in order to compensate for the low disc read speed of the drive.

So, if that's the case, there's a high chance the total download won't be as large as a full BR disc and since you can take advantage of compression and whatnot, could go even smaller.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a tale of giant robots and Cold War drama. It may be fantasy, but did you know that in the early 1960s, the US military actually had a giant robot?

Meet the "Beetle".

Built by Jered Industries in Detroit for General Electric's ominous — and very Metal Gear-sounding — Nuclear Materials and Propulsion Operation division, the Beetle was a mechanical terror designed for the Air Force Special Weapons Centre, initially to service and maintain a planned fleet of atomic-powered Air Force bombers. According to declassified Air Force reports, work began on the "mech" in 1959, and it was completed in 1961.

Unlike the fictional Metal Gears, the Beetle didn't try and walk on two legs. It was piloted, and not an AI. It never tried to destroy the world, either. But its history, design, construction and operation are all so eerily similar to that of "actual" units from the Metal Gear universe that fans of the series should find it fascinating, especially given the timeliness of the Beetle's existence in parallel with the Shagohod, from Metal Gear Solid 3's Cold War drama.

Shagohod was a giant Soviet war machine, and like the Beetle, was a product of the Cold War. It shared a focus on nuclear weapons and an obsession with the promise of the atomic age, was piloted by a single man, heavily armoured, shrouded in secrecy and also ditched cumbersome legs in favour of a more down-to-earth propulsion system, though Shagohod employed "screws" instead of conventional tracks (the Beetle, meanwhile, was built atop the treads and body of an M-42 "Duster", a mobile anti-aircraft vehicle).

While Shagohod was a threat to world peace – especially given plans to export the vehicle overseas to enemies of the US – the Beetle couldn't have been more peaceful if it tried. Shagohod's primary purpose was to serve as a launch platform for nuclear weapons. The Beetle's was to…repair and maintain engines, and when the atomic aircraft project was cancelled in 1961, it was earmarked by the US military for a role in cleaning up the debris caused by a nuclear explosion.

Because the Beetle was first conceived to fix aircraft engines that would be soaked in radiation, it had to be nuclear-proof. Because these would be big aircraft, with large parts that were high off the ground, the Beetle had to be big as well. And because the actual duties it was to perform would require a great deal of precision and finesse, the Beetle was given two arms with pincers for "hands", which is where the "Beetle" name originates.

All of which explain why the Beetle was a colossal 19 feet long, 12 feet wide, 11 feet high and weighed a ground-shaking 77 tons. The pilot was shielded by an inch of steel armour on the outside of the unit, half-an-inch inside and a minimum of 12 inches of lead plating around the cabin, which would keep him shielded from all but the most intense blasts of radiation. On top of all that, the cockpit glass was 23 inches thick, and was made up of seven individual panes of leaded glass.

To actually drive the Beetle, then, the pilot couldn't just pop open a hatch and jump in. The canopy, which weighed 15,000 pounds, had to be raised by hydraulic lifts then lowered onto guidance rods, a process which took several minutes. Once inside, despite cramped conditions, the pilot had some degree of comfort, with a small TV set, air conditioning and even an ashtray, should the stress of dealing with the remains of a nuclear holocaust get a little much from time to time.

Powered by a 500hp engine, the Beetle could, on a hard, flat surface, reach a top speed of…eight miles per hour. Any faster – not that it could go much faster – and the vibrations damaged some of its finer instrumentation and mechanics. That's painfully slow, yes, but speed had been traded off for power, the robot's bulk meaning it had 85,000 pounds of pull in its arms, strong enough to either punch clean through a thick concrete wall or, should the need arise, grab a wall and tear it clean off a building or bunker.

Yet despite this raw power, it could also – thanks to its roots as a servicing platform – perform incredibly delicate operations. At a public demonstration in 1962, for example, the Beetle was able to roll up to a carton of eggs (pictured up top), pick a single egg up and hold it in its pincers without breaking it.

In a final and — given the appearance and scale of the Beetle — unexpected twist, the robot was also capable of reaching great heights. The cabin, which housed the cockpit and arms, was able to be raised on four hydraulic pistons, and when fully extended the Beetle stood an imposing 27 feet off the ground, more than high enough to pick through the rubble of a decent-sized apartment building.

All of which sounds amazing, you're probably thinking. It's like a mech, only real! Why don't we have these today? Why aren't US military personnel going to war in Metal Gears, instead of tanks, which are so twentieth century?

Well, for all its promise and science fiction appeal, the Beetle just didn't work very well.

At the same 1962 demonstration it managed to pick up an egg – for Popular Science and Life magazines - it also, over the source of four days, "operated seldom", the Beetle plagued by hydraulic leaks, broken arms, dead generators (the cockpit instrumentation had its own engine) and countless short circuits. Internal testing conducted by the Air Force was even more damning, citing constant mechanical failures and an impossibly high standard of maintenance required to keep the Beetle in good working order.

Perhaps its biggest failing, however, was that it was utterly unsuitable for active duty. The Beetle had been designed as a maintenance platform, which would operate from the confines and relative safety of an Air Force base. With the demise of the atomic aircraft program, however, the other potential roles planned for it would have required a more active deployment, something its size, weight and most crucially unwieldiness (as in, taking several minutes for a pilot to get in and out) simply could not stand up to.

Future efforts of this type were thus focused on making military robots smaller, both so that they would be lighter – and thus easier to maintain – and also so that they could be operated remotely, rather than having to provide such extreme protection measures for a single pilot. In 2010, you can see the legacy of the Beetle in remotely operated vehicles such as the TALON, recently made famous from the movie Hurt Locker, and the very Metal Gear-looking "Big Dog", recently commissioned for the US Marine Corps.

It's unknown what ultimately became of the Beetle. The Air Force couldn't tell us. Maybe it rusted away in a field somewhere. Maybe it was salvaged for parts. Maybe it's tucked away in a forgotten corner of an Air Force base, gathering dust.

Or maybe war really did change, and someone found a way to put the Beetle to use threatening world peace in some remote, isolated corner of the world, where it was blown to pieces by Naked Snake. It's the least such an amazing, and sadly forgotten, piece of military hardware deserves.

References:
Popular Science Magazine, May 1962
LIFE Magazine, May 1962
Unitd States Air Force Technical Documentary Report Number AFSWC-TDR-62-137 (Unclassified)

Image credits:
LIFE Magazine
Popular Science Magazine

holy crap.... how did you know that?

hmm.. i remember i read on somewhere, where they said in Metal Gear Solid : Rising, Solid Snake AKA Main Prontagonist of the series, died and have a grave in MGS : Rising.

Am i Silowpoke?

hmm.. i remember i read on somewhere, where they said in Metal Gear Solid : Rising, Solid Snake AKA Main Prontagonist of the series, died and have a grave in MGS : Rising.

Am i Silowpoke?

as a pc gamer i dont care about this game

why that guy didnt relasse mgs4 on pc well

sneak isnt in this game soo >>>Ignore it

sam fisher is the bast

as a pc gamer i dont care about this game

why that guy didnt relasse mgs4 on pc well

sneak isnt in this game soo >>>Ignore it

sam fisher is the bast

lol tell me something i dont know