The first part of Metal Gear Solid V wasn’t always going to be on next-gen consoles — in fact, series creator Hideo Kojima says it could have been a PSP game. Then we might have been waiting even longer between the game’s two parts.
Speaking to Kotaku through a translator at the PS4 launch event earlier this week in Manhattan, Kojima explained why he chose to split up Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain into different games, to be released totally independently. Ground Zeroes, after all, is a prologue to the main game.
“Honestly, I really wanted to release Ground Zeroes right after Peace Walker,” Kojima said. “Whether on PSP or PS3. But then we had development issues, some delays with Metal Gear Rising as well. And then we learned about next generation coming, so it ended up being the way it is now.”
Ground Zeroes will be out in Q2 2014 for PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS4. Phantom Pain will be out… eventually. To some fans, this feels like an outrage — why should we have to pay $US30 for a prologue? — but Kojima says they split up the games for the fans, not to spite them.
“Of course it would be ideal to release Ground Zeroes and the main part of the game all together,” Kojima said. “But at the same time given that this week we have the next generation of game consoles coming out, a lot of the fans wanted to play something sooner. And given that the main game is a rather big game and still in development, it will take a little bit more time to get it out. We decided to listen to the fans and put at least the prologue out there so people will get the experience.”
In other words, don’t expect to be playing all of Metal Gear Solid V for a long, long time.
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12 responses to “Why Metal Gear Solid V’s Prologue Is Sold Separately”
That really isn’t a good reason. Also why is it $20 on current gen and $30 on next gen? It is probably gonna be $40-$45 here.
Probably 59.99 at ebgames at 45 at JB
Retail is current gen only which sucks.
It’s even worst than I thought. It is 89.99 at ebgames
Those pixels aren’t free, you know. And next gen has more of them, so they have to charge more.
No they don’t have to charge more. All the next gen games have the same RRP as current gen. If its good and has a decent length I’ll buy. If it is short I’ll watch on youtube and buy phantom pain.
woosh!
Yeah I want to get it but somehow I reckon we’ll get stiffed on the price
I hope the Phantom Pain will at least come out on PC… it sounds like it’s not going to come out for the last generation consoles, and I don’t want to buy a whole console just for MGSV.
Even if I did that for MGS4.Unless there’s some kind of super-rare special edition I should grab, I’ll wait for a MGSV combo pack with GZ in it.
The only way I can see this as not complete bullshit, is that when MGS5 is released proper, we’re charged slightly less for it. Like $30 less.
I’d pay $100 if I had too to play ground zeroes.
Yes, I am a big fan :3