The moral of today's historic defection by Square Enix to the Xbox 360 goes something like this: "Help, I've dropped a critical exclusive and I can't get up." So what's to stop Konami from offering Snake-in-Depends (pardon me, I mean "muscle suit") to Xbox 360 owners next? Is there any reason Xbox 360 owners wouldn't oblige by paying a fat wad of dough to watch some really old dude with Marlboro-Man-face get the crap kicked out of him for a couple dozen hours?
With Square Enix nice and cozied up to Microsoft based on the cold calculus of install base numbers, why wouldn't Konami do the same? I mean at least on this side of the pond, where the 360 owns twice Sony's install pool?
Before we get too "whither Metal Gear Solid 4?" let's remember this is Konami we're talking about. You know, the same guys who think reviewing a game like Metal Gear Solid 4 only takes like half a day or something, and who waited until the game was pretty much in stores and gamers could've cared less about some numbskull's write-up to send out the actual review copies.
So no, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they took a look at Microsoft's U.S. Xbox 360 base and decided it was all just some clever Microsoft ruse. A game console that can't sell to save its life in Japan couldn't possibly be doing favorably overseas, right? More media tricks!
And in response to Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg with his "That's a question for Konami," I'd say forget Konami Aaron and go ask your Xbox 360 install base. I'll bet you lunch they're up for it.
I've seen biased reporting... and this beats all of them... way to go Matt. And the next time you decide to write something, please leave your personal biases aside, and just write a worthwhile article.
seconded.
Thirded! And fourthed! :)
(I guess you two missed the part where this is a bee-el-oh-gee?)
And incidentally, is anyone else having to login, like, twenty times before they can comment? Yeesh!