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Daddo Splat said:
starcraft said:


Guerilla could be slowing down release till enough PS3 are out so they can make thier money back remember the Japanese market probably wont buy this game! its a 25 million dollar investment it better be good!


I've never understood this line of reasoning. Consoles don't sell without games. If every developer delayed their games while waiting for the install base to get bigger, it would never grow, because there would be no games. Even worse, the developers would be losing money by sitting on a relatively finished product.

People had been using this same line of reasoning for why MGS4 was delayed at the end of last year, that the install base was too small, but it made no sense, and Konami's president Fumiaki Tanaka recently came out with his own estimates for MGS4, that are precisely in line with my views on the matter. The userbase will rise when the games come, and not before.

Nikkei pointed out to Tanaka that the PS3 hardware has yet to hit the two million mark in Japan, to which Tanaka noted that many users are waiting for MGS4 to buy a PS3. He also feels that because a number of major PS3 titles from other companies will be released before MGS4, the system's userbase total will rise.