Konami has 'ideas' for Metal Gear Solid 4

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 November, 2004

"We'll continue to create more titles in the series."

Konami is planning to create a fourth Metal Gear Solid game, Motoyuki Yoshioka, head of Konami JPN, confirmed this week as the publisher reported its financial results for the first half of FY2005.

"As for Metal Gear Solid 4, well again, we have some ideas, we've had some ideas for sometime now, so we'll continue to create more titles in the series," he said, after telling investors that Konami wanted to ship more copies of the latest instalment - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - than it did for 2001's Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

News of Konami's intention to develop another MGS title will hopefully lay to rest fears among fans that Snake Eater could be our last engagement with Solid Snake - prompted by a line in the Tokyo Game Show trailer for MGS3 which called it the "Final Episode of the Metal Gear Solid Trilogy".

What form it will take however is another question entirely - and one that we probably won't hear the answer to until series creator Hideo Kojima works it out himself.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is due out in the US next Wednesday, November 17th, on PlayStation 2, with a Japanese release lined up for December 16th and a European release expected to follow in early 2005.

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Comments (28) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • markypants #1 8 years ago

    Early 2005!!!! I hate the stupid release in US before the rest of the world bull shit.

    Fucktards.

    /takes deep breath.

  • IronGiant #2 8 years ago

    Agreed i think they're being very optimistic thinking this will sell more than MGS2.

  • mad_caddy #3 8 years ago

    what i hate the most is that Konami always seem to start plugging a game i.e. #4 before we get our hands on #3

    they do it wih pro evo aswell!

    give us a break and chance to think/breathe/cry!

    just imagin if EA did that with their line up, we'd already be hearing abour FIFA 2099 and Tiger woods and NBA........andNHL......and NFL...........[trails off into the distance]
    Edited by mad_caddy at 10/11/04 @ 12:43

  • aabyssx #4 8 years ago

    I hope the late PAL release will be compensated somehow.
    I mean the PAL ZOE2 was almost a year late but little bit more than the US and Japanese version.

  • IronGiant #5 8 years ago

    Here's an idea for them.. don't bother and put those skills to use on a completely new game.

    ZOE2 is a good game and looks fantastic.

  • Eighthours #6 8 years ago

    Great. More half an hour long cutscenes with nonsensical dialogue!!

  • aabyssx #7 8 years ago

    IronGiant:

    BTW ZOE shares the same basic concept as Metal Gear Solid.

    MGS = interactive movie
    ZOE = interactive anime

    I like both of them!

  • aabyssx #8 8 years ago

    > More half an hour long cutscenes with nonsensical dialogue!!

    Don't like? Dont play! So simple. ;)

  • Spin_Dr_Wolf #9 8 years ago

    News of Konami's intention to develop another MGS title will hopefully lay to rest fears among fans that Snake Eater could be our last engagement with Solid Snake

    More Metal Gear Solid, does not necessarily mean more Solid Snake.

  • tengu #10 8 years ago

    Metal Gear without SNAKE?!

    BURN THE WITCH!

  • IronGiant #11 8 years ago

    Yeah, though i much prefer ZOE2 over MGS2 as it has some awesome action!! :)

  • aabyssx #12 8 years ago

    > Metal Gear without SNAKE?!

    Hey! Raiden may look gay, but he is OK, isn't he? ;)
    At least he had the HF blade!

    edit: HF blade -> stupid idea -> Make a Metal Gear game with the Cyborg Ninja!
    Edited by aabyssx at 10/11/04 @ 13:21

  • Royal Fool #13 8 years ago

    The usual MGS hating is to be expected. Some people just can't appreciate brilliant storytelling.

  • ST.. #14 8 years ago

    Early? with MGS2 it was feckin' March before we got it.

    Any ideas on a concrete date?

  • drumbaby #15 8 years ago

    Yeah, give it to the rest of the world in time for Chrissy...and after the 2005 sales have finished for us Brits. Great.

  • hp_on_toast #16 8 years ago

    Could this be related to MG Online, which HK has been talking about on and off for a while and in developement? If not, I'm guessing Konami don't like the idea of just having an MGS trilogy and want to put the game in new hands if HK "retires" from the series.

  • dadrester #17 8 years ago

    metal gear acid anyone? new characters, etc. i agree with hp_on_toast though, might well be the multiplayer metal gear concept kojima's been on about for a while.

  • Kiigan #18 8 years ago

    Metal Gear Raiden - yeah!

  • Dom's ass #19 8 years ago

    who gives a fuck what you think!!

  • tengu #20 8 years ago

    You don't know much about the legal definition of 'harassment', do you, Dom?

  • tengu #21 8 years ago

    I have t3h best idea for Metal Gear Solid 4! Basically, you don't control Snake, but you DO control the chick who saved your game for you in the first game, except she's wearing hotpants and a tight top and carrying two guns! And the game could have singing and dancing in it! And Snake gays off with Raiden!

    Tch... ffs, MGS3 isn't even out here yet. Wait a WHILE at least before deciding where the franchise should go after that.

  • valli #22 8 years ago

    except she's wearing hotpants and a tight top and carrying two guns! And the game could have singing and dancing in it!

    tengu, that sounds just like FFX-2! =)

  • tengu #23 8 years ago

    Or Tomb Raider... depends on your take I suppose :)

  • valli #24 8 years ago

    Nah, don't worry too much. If he introduces as many new ideas to multiplay as he did with the last singleplay games, we're in for a nice surprise.

  • WoodenSpoon #25 8 years ago

    I hope they don't take this series too far. It would be sad to se MGS reduced to a cash cow for Konami to wheel out every Christmas.

  • Gippal #26 8 years ago

    @confused?

    Well you must start playing games to understand that.
    P.S. why bother to visit a video games site at first place if you dont like them? If I dont like something I just ignore it.

  • Nillsens #27 7 years ago

    The extremely lobg cut-scenes in MGS have always allowed me to sit back, light my cigar (which is really a fag), sip my scotch (which is really Red Bull) and feel downright SEXY about myself for a minute (or 30).

    You can skip them if you don't like it.

  • Nillsens #28 7 years ago

    btw... sometimes I wonder if the comment sections are actually the work of a single deluded individual who makes up lots of different names and argues with himself.

    Maybe that's just wishfull thinking... y'know... hoping that there aren't that many stupid people in the world :p