I'm going to say, it will be close. You gotta admit PS3 could have an edge here with MGS4. And the NA userbase will likely increase after pricecut.

What a weird statement. The only way this wouldn't be true is if the PS3 got a price cut and Sony immediately discontinued the console, resulting in no sales. As long as that doesn't happen, I'm fairly sure the NA userbase will increase with a pricecut, or without one for that matter, kinda like how it does every week.

Xbox 360, no doubt about it.


1; 360 will probably get the superior version (technically)
2; 360 user base has more purchase power
3; 360 gains momentum unlike PS3
4 ;exclusive DLC, who knows ?


There is a precedent : GTAIV

Nope Ps owners hate Raiden (well MGS2 Raiden anyway), and that'll probably take away at least a million sales =)

I figured this post would happen soon enough.

Can I quote you on this in a year, when MGS: Rising does sell more on the PS3 in NA, and you're saying "Of course it did, the fanbase was on PS3!"?

I might as well address all of those.

1) What makes you so sure of that? This is Kojima we are talking about.

2) That, it does.

3) Not really. The 360 is 10k a week above the PS3, and that'll change with a price cut.

4) Exactly, who knows? Kojima isn't a corporate sellout. He probably bitched and moaned enough about making a 360 version. If Konami told him to make exclusive DLC, he'd shoot them.

Using the precedent GTAIV argument kinda kills your whole argument. The difference here is that the majority of MGS fans have already purchased a PS3 to play MGS4. Chances are that since this is a spin-off only the Hardcore of the Hardcore MGS fans will pick this up and since the majority of MGS fans are PS3 owners well nuff said.

You are loco, most of the biggest fans bought a ps3 thinking Metal Gear would remain playstation only. You can see how RE5 sold better or about the same on the ps3 and 360. This was becaus RE5 used to be sony only. It is currently rare to find games that sell so closely on each system.

I should read more carefully b4 I post. lol

You do not need my permission. Quote me as much as you want.


Basically I don't consider any professional to be as irrational as to invest more money where costs are higher and where less returns are expected. So yeah, even Kojima might become yet another "lazy" developper according to PS fans.

360 is currently "only" 10k above PS3 (which is still 10% more than PS3), but Microsoft knows how to push sales in the holiday season and they have so much more margin of manoeuver than Sony that they might even reach tipping point this year, despite all the shared IPs.


PS. GTAIV is really a good precedent. GTA, as a brand, was immediately associated with Playstation almost as much as MGS is.

At the time Rockstar spent more money developping on PS3 to achieve a version and didn't quite match the ported 360 version (native resolution and framerates are actually lower on the PS3).

At what point was Resident Evil ever Sony only? Infact the RE franchise was timed exclusive to the GameCube last gen.

This is not the same situation as RE, because there has already been an exclusive main series MGS game on the PS3. That means that 4M MGS fans already own a PS3.

Glad someone was able to see what I was saying