The Metal Gear Solid 4 ads are firing up on Japanese TVs. Above, the announcer says: “Combat or infiltration? Direct advance or detour? Hope or hopelessness? Chose for yourself. Metal Gear Solid 4 out. Gaming’s counterattack begins.” The second spot after that shows a young couple as the guy continues playing MGS4 nonstop. The announcer for that ad goes: “Metal or meals? Metal or phone? Metal or marriage? Of course, Metal.”
Thanks, Chen!
Ah, 2006. Wii advertising. Chopping, shooting, drumming, it could do anything! “We would rike to pray”, white cars, the hope of a brighter future for everyone! Hasn’t really panned out that way. Maybe it’s Nintendo’s fault, maybe it’s our fault for believing all those jump-around-the-living-room commercials, who knows, what I do know is that every time I watch this clip, then think back to 2006, I giggle myself silly.
[via Next-Gen]
Tears to Tiara is one saucy PS3 title. Not nearly as saucy as “Soul Breed” strategy/embarrassing food eating RPG Record of Agarest War, but hey, few things are. “Adventure + simulation” fantasy sword-swinging RPG Tears To Tiara features 2D cutscenes — not a big deal! But one of which apparently has a boob grabbing tentacle. Yep, tears indeed.
The game goes on sale July 17th in Japan. Click through the gallery below.
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For the past, oh, day or two, we’ve got a few “OMG I have MGS4″ emails from readers. Normally pictures or videos of people in the UK who have managed to get hold of a copy of the game on eBay ahead of its June 12 release date. All of them pointing towards auctions just like this one. Normally, not so big a deal, as advance copies of games are often offloaded by shady writers. But journos aren’t getting copies of MGS4. There are no advance copies. So how’d these guys in the UK get them? And why are they Australian retail copies of the game – as you can see from the MA15+ rating on the cover – and not the UK version? Think most of you can put two and two together on this one.
METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS PS3 *POST NOW* [eBay]
While we may never know what actually happened, months have passed since the internet exploded over Kane & Lynch, GameSpot and reviewer Jeff Gerstmann. Now that the dust has settled what does Kane & Lynch developer IO Interactive think about the way it went down? Did it hurt game sales? Says Thomas Howalt, business development director at IO Interactive:
For Metal Solid 4, Sony has system seller expectations! Many current PS3 owners are already planning on purchasing MGS4, but Sony is also hoping that the PS3 exclusive will move consoles. No doubt it will, but how many? Obviously, we won’t know that until the post-launch retail data comes rolling in, but this Yahoo! Games Metal Gear Solid 4 poll sheds light onto at least how a sample of 625 Japanese gamers feel about the title. This cannot be taken as a blanket barometer for the entire country, but rather, simply results for those who were polled. The above info reads:
Hahaha! Mario’s not Italian, you suckers. He just moonlights for Nintendo, does the odd bit of product promotion here and there. Helps put the kids through college. No, for the other six days of the week, he’s no plumber. He’s a drunk, Mexican restaurant mascot by the name of Pancho Bigotes! Or Pancho Whiskers, if you will. I don’t know about you, but Super Paper Pancho Bigotes would only be the most awesome game ever, Nintendo. Ever. You hear me?
[via Go Nintendo]
G4′s Adam Sessler chimes in on this whole Konami Metal Gear Solid 4 PR brouhaha. It’s worth a watch — he makes many valid points!
It’s a good question! But a tough one. Best ask Nielsen, they’re good at this sort of thing. Between April 2007 and February 2008, the company conducted research on the daily habits of gamers in two age groups: 10-26 year-olds and those 27 and older. They worked out how long gamers in each group spent playing each of the three consoles, how many times a day they played them and even how many days of the month they made use of them. The results? Above. For the young ones, the 360 comes out on top, and for those a little older, it’s the PS3. I don’t know how, exactly, they came up with these stats (could they only poll people who had all three?), but it’s looking like most people polled are rolling out their Wiis on weekends or for parties (only 11 days a month for the older group) while the other two are used as everyday beasts of burden.
On June 3rd 2008 2:30PM Japan Standard Time, Tomonobu Itagaki announced that he was leaving Tecmo and also suing the company for unpaid bonuses. He cited an unfulfilled Dead or Alive 4 completion bonus, stating, “President Yoshimi Yasuda chose not only to violate this agreement, but also turned defiant, telling me ‘if you are dissatisfied with the decision not to pay the bonuses, either quit the company or sue it.’” How did that effect the company stock price? The following day, the price of Tecmo stock suddenly dropped 10.16 percent in Japan. Think of it as a shuriken to the market cap.
Stock Prices Drop [Excite News][Pic]
