"Following last night's shock news that Final Fantasy XIII will release on Xbox 360, VG247 has been told by a very senior UK industry source that a 360 version of Metal Gear Solid 4 is “inevitable”.

“There’s only MGS left now: for a few months at least,” said the mole. “It’s inevitable. Konami knows how many million they’d sell in the US alone. If FFXIII can make it to 360 when Sony owns nine percent of Square, Metal Gear’s a slam dunk.”

Kojima has constantly said that the game isn’t transferable to 360 as the Microsoft console uses DVD as opposed to Blu-ray.

Money, as everyone’s mother used to say, talks."

http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/07/15/mgs4-on-360-its-inevitable-says-highly-placed-source/

I'm finding it hard not to believe him.

i hope 360 owners enjoy switching discs alot and crap graphics, i really dont care if it does, it would make me laugh

Maybe, maybe so. Won't be the first time a MGS game appeared on the XBOX.

And it already had it's effect on the PS3. So good for Konami.

It's not impossible, I guess, even if Kojima is adamant against its going to the 360. Didn't Ken Levine say there was never going to be BioShock on PS3? And now they're getting not just a port, but an enhanced version.

It's been looking this way for a while, but I think FFXIII shows third party exclusives are going to be really rare ducks this generation - at least until a clear winner (er, second place console) emerges. Development costs are just too high, and the way the hardware is split is really shaking things up.

MGS4 isn't a long game, nor is there any reason for it to be 50GB in size. Besides, I think anyone would take a 10 second disc-change after every chapter over a 2-3 minute install including the 15 minute install at the start.

Is this because of my thread?

If this happens I'm going to change what's in my thread.....

Timed exclusives are not as bad as Simultaneous release. I've learned from waiting for a NA release of ES for the PS3.

As opposed to repeated and lengthy installs.............

Good thing you got this information from a reputable and well known source otherwise I might not have believed you. Doesn't appear to be a website just trying to steal traffic / sarcasm.

On a serious note , no one knows for sure the terms of MGS4's exclusivity , wether a port to the 360 would be worthwhile or even possible without serious degrade. I guess 10 disc MGS4 is going to become a reality.

I expect an announcement during the Tokyo Show.

First install 8 mins.

Then 3.

Yeah, three minutes.  too fucking long.