Can anybody tell me why Metal Gear Solid 4 will come to the 360?

[Onyxmeth]

RPG said:

If business was that straight forward why is Left 4 Dead, Lost Planet 2 a console exclusive as well as FF Versus? Deals are made behind the scenes (I know shocking) and I doubt Konami asked for much after 1 year to keep it PS3 exclusive. If anything else it will be a bragging right Sony has and will want to keep.

What bugs me about the "leak" is that this new MGS4 Oxide is a 360 exclusive, why would Konami fuck over PS3 owners and an install base which has sold 4 million copies of MGS4? If it was multi-plat I woulf not doubt the news but that was just a little too fishy.

The thing is, I don't think MGS4 is a bragging right for Sony any longer. They no longer bundle it, they don't advertise for it, it's major sales have come and gone. It's still a third party title, meaning it's making them far less than their own published titles do. Similar to how Microsoft let's their "exclusives" go after a year, I don't think Sony would have a need to keep this going forever. It's the fans that would like this.

To answer the second paragraph, I agree it's kinda fucked up, but that's how things are. Look at Sony, they have a policy to do just that every single time they get a late port. "Give us exclusive content!". It's just that little incentive to nudge people one way or another without having to purchase exclusivity outright, or a publisher's incentive to get people to double dip, and take a moneyhat simultaneously.