No, IMO it is different for Valve because they controle their biggest distribution channel which is Steam.

Retail and 360 are the nice to have for them (not to mention the affinity between the PC world and 360). Investing on the PS3 is not their biggest concerns for the moment and that is understandable...

On the other Hand (for MGS), Konami has .... the PS3... the least successul console on the market for the moment...

They can only do better by going multiplat.

After the pun directed towards 360/DVD in MGS4, i dont see it coming.

lol, where did the valid reason go?

I hear arguments like the the user base for the X360 and PS3 (are you serious? 90% of the games are identical), that X360 could not handle the game ( lol, like that was not a marketing ploy), and that the sales warrant another exclusive (i guess noone took a look at the sales of GTA on X360). The last valid reason was loyalty (GTA anyone, Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy). In this economy, there is no loyalty.

Did i miss out any other valid reason? If the question was whether or not this game would go to the Wii, then ok, i would be just as skeptical, but right now, not developing an established hardcore brand on the 360 and PS3 simultaneously is just bad management.
Hell, the was things are going, i would be surprised if Sony does not start publishing its own games on competing consoles.

Ok you have a valid point there and I give you that. I forgot completely forgot about steam for some reason. Though maybe Konami should just release it to the PC for extra sales. It would probably sell alot more that way as well while not doing a 360 release.

360 may have the largest overall userbase but MGS is a game that does well in all territorries. The PS3 is greater in Others and Japan combined. The fact is though the game is one track to sell as well if not better than previous MGS games. Trust me if Konami wasn't happy with it's sales they would be releasing it to the 360 right know as we speak.

Still though Valve should not ignore a 21mil+ userbase just as Konami shouldn't do the same for a 29.5mil+ userbase. The only reason why Valve is worse is bcause of the vulgerness used against the 360 compared to the reason why Konami isn't doing things for 360.

it seems to me that konami is just being lazy and doesnt want too make a halo or gta4 in terms of sales with the mgs series. because if it did than mgs series would be on the 360. also kojima said in a interview about mgs4, that mgs3 would have been on the 360 if it had been out when mgs3 launched. so he isnt against releasing a another mgs on a xbox platform, its seems konami is giving a middle finger to the 360 owners.

Yea, they just have a 360 hooked up for no reason with controllers and other stuff laying around.....MGS5 multiplat = more sales & more fans.

Kojima, the reason.

Get over it fanboys the man does not do multiplats. Stubborn as hell hes does his thing his way and he has the power to do it that way.

Only thing that would have made MGS5 multi was MGS4 sales failure, and that sadly for many of you did not happen.

Oh god, the "They'd make more profit if they went multiplatform" arguments are coming up again. Until the 360 starts losing major 3rd party exclusives, don't beg for any that would be on the PS3

They said, while MGS4 was still in development, that Ryan Payton advised that the developers played games like Gears of War to get a good understanding on how to make a good TPS system.

Obviously, it paid off.