2023-06-20 17:33:23
Among the licenses that Xbox players have never been able to take full advantage of is Metal Gear Solid and its Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. If the owners of the brand still regret this choice on the part of Konami, it now appears that this decision was mainly linked to a technical constraint.
Konami not really convinced by the Xbox 360
Books often contain many secrets kept for a long time by their writers or more broadly, by all the people who participated in the creation of the book and those concerning the history of video games are no exception to this rule.
Latest example with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and the interview with Ryan Payton conducted by the site Time Extensionas part of a conversation regarding the book ” « The Ultimate History of Video Games Vol 2 »written by Steven L Kent, and during which the former assistant producer of the game revealed that the software worked “perfectly and without problems on Xbox 360”.
The man goes even further in his confession and claims that there was never an exclusivity agreement for Metal Gear Solid 4 to be released only on PS3. According to him, this decision was rather driven by the choice of disc format used by Microsoft’s console. Payton adds that at some point Konami set up a team to see if the game might be ported to the Xbox 360.
Despite my colleagues’ despondency over PS3 development, most of them remained die-hard Sony fans and weren’t keen on the idea of devoting resources to such a test.
They thought Metal Gear Solid 4 would look and run lousy on Microsoft’s older, less capable hardware.
On one fateful day, the Konami R&D team hosted a meeting where we got to see the fruit of their labor: Metal Gear Solid 4 running beautifully and smoothly on an Xbox 360.
Metal Gear Solid 4 physically impractical
According to Payton, while porting was technically possible, it was physically impractical.
Since PS3 games come on BD-ROM discs that can hold up to 54 GB of storage, and Xbox 360 games come on DVD-ROM discs that can only hold 8.3 GB, porting Metal Gear Solid 4 to Xbox 360 would have need to put the game on many discs, something Konami was unwilling to do.
Working for Sony at the time, Jack Tretton had himself supported this argument by stating:
Metal Gear Solid 4 is an action game: Metal Gear Solid 4 is not only exclusive to the PS3, it is only possible on the PS3, thanks in part to Blu-ray.
One thing is certain, however, Microsoft consoles will be entitled to Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake, which might be released in 2024.
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