Metal Gear PSP to get sequel?

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 January, 2007

Producer reckons so.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops has received rave reviews since its release in the USA late last year, and that coupled with comments made by an assistant producer suggest a sequel is definitely on the way.

Ryan Payton, who admits the PSP game screwed up his social life, told the PSM podcast: "If it's successful on the retail level there will definitely be a sequel."

"Just on a personal level that's something I really, really want to do," he added.

Konami hasn't said anything specific about a sequel, but having shifted the Metal Gear portable titles away from card-battling toward real-time endeavours, an upturn in critical fortune and sales is unlikely to go unacknowledged.

Portable Ops is due out in Europe this year, although Konami's yet to announce a specific release date.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • lambtron #1 5 years ago

    Remake the orginal MSX games please.

    Thanks.

  • killyourtv #2 5 years ago

    lets not milk it
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/07 @ 16:45

  • Hughes. #3 5 years ago

    The MSX game are included with Substinence, so there shouldn't be a problem getting them to work on PSP. Maybe they could be cheap downloadables, once they enable those for us non-PS3 owning PSPers.

    /looks at watch
    /taps foot
    /looks at watch
    /glares at Sony

    Good news on a sequel for this though. I'd have imported, but the online stuff seems an important aspect and I assume the usual regional problems exist for online PSP stuff. Hopefully the GPS thingamijig will have been released by the time the Euro launch happens.

  • Steroyd #4 5 years ago

    I don't get it why is there a delay between JAP/US and Europe.

    And don't give me non of that PAL/NTSC bull crap

  • dr_lha #5 5 years ago

    MGS:pO is excellent, I've probably clocked more hours on it on my PSP in the last few days than I have in the past 12 months with any game on the PSP. It sold extremely well by all accounts on in the USA as well, going straight in at number one, quite unexpectedly. I guess all those PSP owners like myself have been waiting for not only a decent game to get released, but also a proper Metal Gear game.

  • doctor__no #6 5 years ago

    MGS:pO is really an amazing game, the team recruit system is incredibly refreshing, and being able to play as dozens of different characters with unique attributres is wonderful. Incredibly innovative for the MGS series, and I would go far as to say its better then MGS2, MGS3.

    Also, cool that the main character is Big Boss/Naked Snake, looking forward to more of Portable Ops thank you.

  • SomaticSense #7 5 years ago

    "what, the translation bullcrap?"

    Are people really still using the bullshit translation excuse? That would maybe be a valid excuse for the delay from Japan to the West, but hardly appropriate when complaining about the delay from US to UK.
    Besides, it didn't take that long for them to translate it for the US audience from Japanese, so why the hell do we have to wait for them to translate it from English....... to English. And the PAL to NTSC doesn't cut it anymore either.

    Enough games from other Japanese developers have made it out worldwide in much shorter timescales, which makes any excuse for the lengthy gap we sometimes have to suffer total bollocks. If other companies can manage it, then why can't the likes of Konami and Square? It's either laziness, or an apparent uncaring of the non-US gaming audience.

    It's about time they released seperate versions of European games for each country. That way we in the UK wouldn't have to wait for a game to be given a 'Portuguese' option that we aren't ever going to fucking use.

  • Steroyd #8 5 years ago

    what, the translation bullcrap?

    Exactly.

    I let the translation stuff slide on the PS2 because they have to re-do the video to meet PAL standards which would probably take quite a bit.

    On the PSP no i don't buy it, particularly the ones that have a very small gap between Japan and US launches because they speak different languages as well.

  • Aysir #9 5 years ago

    Actually language translation takes a lot of time. Take into consideration that it has to translated into all the various european langauges before it can be released here. And in case you're thinking translation is an easy process, think again! The game has to go through the entire QA process again to ensure that changing the language hasn't damaged some other part of the game (and it does happen BTW). It isn't easy translating a game from Japanese to English, but its certainly no easier translating it into several other languages again.

  • Steroyd #10 5 years ago

    Yes i know translation takes time, but that doesn't explain why there was so little time between the japaneese and US releases.

    I've always been pissed at the fact that I speak the same language as America and i get the game later than them by a significant time period because of a language i don't speak it's a bitchin I love to bitch about, but surely they can launch the game to parts of Europe and Australia first and release the other languages when they're done?

  • Feanor #11 5 years ago

    FFS, just import it. PSP games are region free if you didn't know, and it probably won't cost you any more to import now than if you wait and buy it from a Biritish shop in x number of months.
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/07 @ 21:47

  • Steroyd #12 5 years ago

    Not sure if online mode works if i get the American version just like I can't use foreign game saves.

  • Keimar #13 5 years ago

    lol - the wireless and game save settings have to be changed as well = delay

    Main reason there isn't a simultaneous US and UK English release is because of the EU import duty, it's not worth bringing in games just for sale in the UK; it's only viable once they translate the game to multiple languages and pay the tax once and release it whole of EU.

  • Ryze #14 5 years ago

    It's the several Euro languages, plus probably the several age ratings boards - apparently Germany is harsh in this respect.

    As mentioned, it is more cost effective to release 1 Euro version of the game, but at the same time, getting a product ready for release across Europe is probably a ball ache.

    But it's annoying none the less, because here in the UK we speak ENGLISH. I also want my PSP GPS. I'm English, and the UK isn't massively huge - so hurry the hell up!

  • Garibaldi #15 5 years ago

    Hopefully they'll release MGSPSP and the sequel for another format as well, maybe PS2 like Rockstar did with Liberty City Stories. I was quite keen on MGSPSP until I heard rumblings of a clumsy control method then first-hand accounts from the 1up podcast, pressing three buttons to lean and fire round a wall? My life is just too short.

  • smelly #16 5 years ago

    Translating into one language (jap to us) doesnt take as long as translating into 5 or 6 languages.

    All the voices will need re-recording for each language, text redone, maybe extra compression routines needed to fit all the languages onto one disc, etc.

    The manual/box will need reprinting for each language.

    The game will then need submitting to BBFC (in this country), which can take a while apparently if movie industry is anything to go by (or so kevin smith says). And the other authoritaries around Europe.

    Then you have the nstc/pal thing (erm.. but not for the psp obviously).

    And then games need to be re-submitted to sony for approval in different territories.

    If you're a global company, it might be ready 2 weeks after the american one (for example) but due to the politics of business, you need to launch it in a seperate launch window, with different advertising materials. Maybe you're already publishing 5 titles in that quarter, and hold onto it for the next quarter.. Maybe you missed the window for this quarter by a week, so have to hold on for longer, etc etc.

    Politics of business.

    Although why gamers are so impatient i dont understand.. you'll get to play it eventually .. why do you care if one country gets it before you do?
    Edited by 1 at 03/01/07 @ 02:34

  • aine #17 5 years ago

    I also want my PSP GPS.

    Buy a Gizmondo!

    ..sorry

  • Arnold__ #18 5 years ago

    The delay in release dates for European is a simple matter of finance. Companies, especially listed ones produce quarterly financial statements, and they need to show a profit in all quarters or their shareprice takes a dive. Say a company has one game to release in a financial year, if they release worldwide in quarter 1 and make $5m profit, the market will say 'Ah, you made $5m in Q1, so you should make $5 x 4 = $20m for the year'. And, unless said company has a new game every quarter, we know that they will make losses in Quarter 2, 3 and 4.

    So, they stagger release dates into different quarters worldwide, to equalize their profits. I've noticed Konami is especially bad, they have no qualms about releasing in European territories 9 - 12 months after the US.