QUOTE(300078 @ Mar 10 2008, 04:50 PM)
tat is the evil part of sony buying it up as exclusive and giving Konami all the support they need until they found out tat the game format is just too big to implement any other console!
evil? Exclusives are one strategy both sides use to give a reason for customers to buy their console over the other. You can say the same for M$ for keeping certain other games exclusive.
If anyone is responsible for the huge size it's kojima for making the audio quality extremely high. The previous MGS series had nonrepeating music that was tailored for each scene. It's the dedication and quality to the game that made the MGS series so popular. If I remembered right Kojima played through MGS2 for around a hundred hours before declaring it was finally finished.
on another note... some of you may have missed this interview with kojima...
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Still on MGS4, I ask whether this really is the end. He's said repeatedly he wants to walk away at the end of this game, and the trailers seem to show everyone from the series getting together for one final shootout. So when MGS4 hits, will you hang up your boots? "Well, actually its really up to the users, its up to them to decide", he offers.
"If users want more Metal Gear, then I will probably step up as producer, like the James Bond series does", he says. "That way I can have new, upcoming directors making MGS while I oversee the project, and then perhaps I can move onto something new".
"But like I said, MGS4 is aimed for the movie theatre, it's aimed for the PS3, so the game's scenario and graphics need this theatre-type hardware. It's when a producer has a game that can work on the 'DVD level' that a game will go multiplatform", he says. Sorry kids. Your "OMGMGS4360" banners will have to come out another day.
Since we've opened up this can of worms, I may as well get his thoughts on it. Why, I ask, do you think this rumour simply refuses to go away? "Because 360 owners want it on 360, obviously", he quips.
source (in case you think I made this up)
http://kotaku.com/gaming/go307/feature-tal...jima-248695.php