For Metal Solid 4, Sony has system seller expectations! Many current PS3 owners are already planning on purchasing MGS4, but Sony is also hoping that the PS3 exclusive will move consoles. No doubt it will, but how many? Obviously, we won’t know that until the post-launch retail data comes rolling in, but this Yahoo! Games Metal Gear Solid 4 poll sheds light onto at least how a sample of 625 Japanese gamers feel about the title. This cannot be taken as a blanket barometer for the entire country, but rather, simply results for those who were polled. The above info reads:
As the sale of Metal Gear Solid 4 coming up, are you interested in the game? (Collaboration with Famitsu White Paper Editorial Dept)
Already own the PS3 and plan on purchasing MGS4: 28 percent 173 votes
Plan on purchasing it with PS3: 13 percent 81 votes
Own a PS3, but don’t intend on purchasing: 15 percent 89 votes
Interested, but don’t plan on purchasing it with a PS3: 46 percent 282 votes
Let’s look at the numbers: The results show that 41 percent of those polled have already decided to purchase the game, but 61 percent of those polled do not have plans to pick up the game. However, that not-buying-but-interested 46 percent of those polled certainly could be considered potential customers — for whatever that’s worth. That perfect Famitsu review should also help move some copies of the game. And if you add all those numbers up, you’ll see that one hundred percent of those polled either own a PS3 or are interested in MGS4 — for whatever that’s worth.
Metal Gear Solid 4 Interest Poll [Yahoo! Games Thanks, muu!]
It seems I’ve become the architect of my own failure. Instead of demolishing the skyscraper of untouched games in my living room, I recently and rather foolishly added three more stories to it. Three very involving, convoluted and relentlessly ridiculous stories, mind you, but ones that I’ve already been through once. With the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots close enough for me to start using the word “impending,” I thought it was time for a Metal Gear Solid replay.
A word of warning: While I’ve tried to steer clear of plot-related spoilers, we’re talking about a game that’s nearly ten years old. FYI, the Titanic sinks at the end.
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The moment we’d been awaiting for ever since Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots was announced at E3 2005 came on Wednesday evening, when we walked up to a PS3 running the final, ready-for-retail build of the game and ever so slowly pressed “start” with quivering thumbs. We were whisked from the title screen - a real-time scene showing a suit-wearing Old Snake in the graveyard from previous trailers - to the Middle East, where after only a few minutes we realized that Kojima has done it again: he’s taken MGS in a new direction, with wild ambition, while still keeping sneaking the No. 1 priority.
No spoilers here; we’re just as set as you are on having as little of the game ruined for us before we get to sit down and play it, good and proper. That said, make with the clicking and read our tale of 40-odd minutes with what will surely be a system-seller for PS3 after the break!
Read the full review at Joystiq.com: Metal Gear Solid 4 - the finished game
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Hideo Kojima clarified on his latest
blog podcast that he’s absolutely not disappointed with
Metal Gear Solid 4, despite
earlier reports of his dissatisfaction. He’s just trying to be modest about the game. He put the blame on his words getting lost in translation as the reason why his views were taken askew. This is always the usual suspect as the Japanese language and culture doesn’t always clearly come out the same when put into English words.
We won’t go too far into this but in short Kojima says he doesn’t like to brag; so he’s downplaying his thoughts, keeping in line with Japanese humility. Whether Kojima is being too humble or not, gamers should still listen first to their own opinions on the game. We’ve seen the game footage over the years and listened to the news reports, and we’re pretty sure we like what we see. Has a previous
MGS game failed to
disappoint amaze? No. Will this one? Most likely not. Cue in beaming first exclusive
ten-over-ten review.
[Via Kotaku]
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