Last question, which we're sure you can guess what it is ...
When is the Xbox 360 version coming out? *Laughter* No, it's PlayStation 3 exclusive, that's all I can say. Well, how are you handling the speculation at this point? There's been a lot of discussion about MGS4 appearing on the Xbox 360.
We like the console, it's fun and there are a lot of great titles for it. But, we're committed to the PS3. We want the PS3 to be successful, and we've had a great history with the PlayStation. So it's a PS3 exclusive title, now having said that ... questions like this don't bother me. The questions that bother me are ones like, "Are you worried that the Xbox 360 is stealing exclusives from the PS3" or whatever. I think that the industry really needs to grow up and get away from this Xbox vs. PlayStation mentality.
I really want to get my point across that the industry is mature enough so that we can get past this. There is space for three consoles, as Nintendo has proven. There are more important things in life than the Xbox 360 or the PS3 getting exclusive titles from one another. Life goes on. But, with that said ... if you want to play MGS4 next year, you're going to need a PlayStation 3. So that's the way it works ... is it something to cry about? No.
But, with that said ... if you want to play MGS4 next year, you're going to need a PlayStation 3. So that's the way it works ... is it something to cry about? No.
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For those of you who need commentary on everything, that video up there depicts a Russian journalist meeting with Hideo Kojima and demonstrating a piece of music by Russian composer Georgy Sviridov. A piece created by the late Mr. Sviridov in 1974 -- according to my research, it is more than not likely a piece entitled Snow Storm, based on the poetry of Alexander Pushkin -- that sounds suspiciously similar to the theme used in Kojima's Metal Gear Solid games. While Kojima seems rather amused by the similarity, he neither admits his famous theme to be derivative, nor does he claim it isn't. The video ends by superimposing the song over footage of Metal Gear Solid 4 and never definitively resolves the issue, but the similarities are quite obviously there.