Metal Gear Solid 5 rumoured for E3

By Robert Purchese Published 23 March, 2011

Kojima has "big announcements" to make.

Rumour has it that Hideo Kojima may spill the beans on Metal Gear Solid 5 at this summer's annual E3 extravaganza.

That rumour comes from PSM3 magazine, read and quoted by PS3 Center.

Wrote the magazine: "MGS maestro Hideo Kojima's got some big announcements for E3 in June: one a quasi-logical step for an existing game, the other... well, we'd be shocked if MGS5 wasn't on the table at some stage. Or under it. In a box."

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was released nearly three years ago, and as yet there's no sign of a direct successor: only action spin-off Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which is tentatively linked to a 2012 launch. However, MGS4 was supposed to be Snake's swansong, his final outing. But the door didn't quite click shut.

What's more, Kojima Productions was spotted hiring staff for a "Next Generation Metal Gear Solid Series Production Staff" earlier this year.

The "quasi-logial step" PSM3 refers to could be a Substance/Subsistence-style expansion for MGS4 - an avenue pursued by Kojima Productions for MGS2 and MGS3.

That "quasi-logical step" could also be a Next Generation Portable version of Metal Gear Solid. Hideo Kojima showed Metal Gear Solid 4 running on NGP during Sony's unveiling of the handheld earlier this year. He also lead development of PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Konami told Eurogamer this morning that it doesn't comment on rumour and speculation.

E3 this year takes place on 7th to 9th June. Eurogamer will be there in force.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising.

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  • markymark1506 #1 1 year ago

    ZOE 3 first please.

  • AcidSnake #2 1 year ago

    Quasi-logical in Kojima-speak could mean he's working on a daffodil simulator though...

    Funny how MGS2 was supposed to be the last in the series...
    Still, great news...I really hope for a subsistence style remake of 4 for 360 as I still haven't got a PS3...Although I'd doubt playstation mags bringing that news...

  • Cjail #3 1 year ago

    Kojima had developed quite a talent in announcing that he will make an announcement.

  • X #4 1 year ago

    This your last one, eh Kojima?

  • BuddyChrist #5 1 year ago

    Limp Snake

    He's got a windsock thing going on

  • sfp_noodle #6 1 year ago

    Would much prefer an MGS HD collection. MGS3 was and will remain the best in the series. Simply superb game. Can't believe its now been exactly 6 years since it was released. God time flies.

  • aphex187 #7 1 year ago

    They wanna get Metal Gear Solid: Rising out first before they start bleating on about another MGS the f'n dickheads.....

  • SeesThroughAll #8 1 year ago

    It's a remastered edition of MGS4, cross-platform (PS3+360). On the PS3, you'll have to buy it again if you want trophies :p

  • Deano_98 #9 1 year ago

    Still hoping to one day see remakes of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

  • The-Bodybuilder #10 1 year ago

    Starring Gas Snake, son (and clone) of Solid Snake, whom has to fight a NEW metal gear (Metal Gear Eagle, a flying bird-like metal gear) that has been stolen by a group of super-powered terrorists led by Gasus Snake. Que retreading the solid-centric story again.

    Can't wait for the battle against Psycho-Mantis jr; whereby he takes control of your kinect (Kinecto-Mantis?).

  • The-Bodybuilder #11 1 year ago

    I agree with deano, would prefer a remake of the original metal gears.

  • andywilkie35 #12 1 year ago

    Yes please, more MGS is always good :)

  • metallicorphan #13 1 year ago

    Bodybuilder-yeah i would like remakes of them as well,and preferably on consoles and not handhelds,they fill the gap between Peace Walker and MGS1

  • drxym #14 1 year ago

    Cue the usual noises from Kojima that accompany every MGS game that this is the very last one, how this will wrap up all the loose ends, how the game couldn't be made on any other platform, how he is going to retire soon, how he is hands on with the project blah blah blah.

    I think it would make sense to kill MGS simply because the plot makes zero sense, the exposition is tedious filler material (and probably expensive to make too), and the core mechanics could be lifted and stuck on a new series without all the baggage to carry.

  • WinterSnowblind #15 1 year ago

    I couldn't see it being MGS, it would completely deflate any hype for Rising.

  • Golgo #16 1 year ago

    Yep, agree with sfp_noodle: HD re-issue of MGS1-3 (and maybe 4 thrown in as well) with subsistence style/3rd person camera and trophies, please.

  • ShortRound77 #17 1 year ago

    In other news: Snake Solid was spotted leaving his retirement home today in his custom wheelchair. His LALELULELO had custom black paint and some spinnin'rims.

  • MadCaddy13 #18 1 year ago

    Snake? Snaaaaaake!!

  • JDub #19 1 year ago

    Scoop! Available on the PS7 in 2035... :/

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #20 1 year ago

    PLEASE announce ZOE3 and ZOE 1&2 HD collection!

  • danjfor #21 1 year ago

    It'd be good to see Kojima doing a proper new-IP game. He still frequently comes out with some of the most inventive stuff around; it'd be interesting to see what he'd come up with freed from all the plot history of the MGS games. Either that or a World War 2 MGS with the Boss from MGS3, please...

  • orangpelupa #22 1 year ago

    hoping whatever game Kojima Production make in future all are Multiplatform just like Metal Gear Rising :D

    maybe using CryEngine 3 so developing for PC PS3 Xbox is not time consuming.

  • StolenGlory #23 1 year ago

    ZONE OF THE....

    Oh never mind.

  • DeadlyErnest #24 1 year ago

    ...or the quasi-logical step could be an HD Peace Walker for PS3/360 - there were whisperings about that at the end of last year.

    I for one would go for it, I found the controls on the PSP version bad enough to put me off.

  • Reckless99 #25 1 year ago

    Jizz in my pants(Good news).

  • vizzini #26 1 year ago

    From a technical standpoint both MG2/MG4 are great and do a decent story for some of the time,MG4 multiplayer was brilliant. But I would just as happily see him reboot the whole series at MG3 (&MGS) and remove somey of the immortal type characters (Grey Fox excluded) because the normal characters Snake, Sniper wolf, Psycho, Boss, Big Boss, Campbell, Revolver Ocelot, etc stretch science fiction enough without taking it too close to the ridiculous.

    Thatis probably why political driven Snake Eater is the best in the series for me, as the ridiculous parts are very brief and the bulk is anchored in Covert Ops reality. A remake of snake eater using the MG4 engine would be a good place to reboot.

  • Ashcroft #27 1 year ago

    Will I be able to kiss posters of undressed ladies?

    This is very important.

  • dllord #28 1 year ago

    Whats the bet that he says this is the last MGS he'll ever do!

    Untill the next one!
    Edited by dllord at 23/03/11 @ 12:43

  • anth2010 #29 1 year ago

    snatcher remake on 3ds

  • ronuds #30 1 year ago

    Would he talk about the next MGS before the current one has even been released?

  • Kaminari #31 1 year ago

    MGS4 is not worthy of a special edition. Besides, Integral / Substance / Subsistence were released less than a year after the originals, not 3 years.

  • risseer #32 1 year ago

    Fore those of you who said MGS should be on 360 as well...Hell No.The first 3D Mgs was on playstation thats wheir it needs to be.

  • geeza2020 #33 1 year ago

    risseer - what?

    I love MGS and I dont think the series needs a "reboot". I hate this term so much, mainly because its getting thrown about all over the place in Hollywood and the games industry these days, it makes me think our creative industries are completely devoid of new ideas.

    Anyway, I cant see this having anything to do with Metal Gear, because as other people have said it would take all the wind out of the sails of Rising. The only metal gear games that need a "reboot" are the original Metal Gear games (before the psone), as their story is almost completely lost on me.

  • drhickman1983 #34 1 year ago

    I can't really see what they could do with the Metal Gear saga anymore. The story, as overblown as it may have became, was tied up pretty well in MGS4. Snake is too "old" to have any more adventures (barring some miracle-cure ass grab, which would feel pretty cheap).

    To avoid making the convoluted flow of events even more ridiculous, a new game would surely have to exist outside of the existing canon, which is the approach Rising seems to be taking. But another spin-off being announced before Rising is released seems unlikely.

    Maybe another Big Boss adventure? I'll admit, owing to not owning a PSP myself and not knowing anybody who does, I've not played any of the PSP games. An NGP version of the first MGS seems feasible.

    In short, I've got no idea what the hell he'll announce. I personally would like a to see a Subsistence update for MGS4, with a 360 port available too. This is pretty unlikely, but I can wish.

  • metallicorphan #35 1 year ago

    The Drifter-well if you are going to go on like that then MGS2 was a remake of MGS1 ;)

  • NeverWinter78 #36 1 year ago

    And so it starts. This will be the rumor announcement that will lead to a teaser website with a count down to another count down to the reveal of a teaser trailer of a game that won't be confirmed but will be delayed 10 times before its release