Metal Gear Solid 4 Coming to 360? **Update**

Yet another rumor floating around about the PS3 exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4. This time it's Xbox Family claiming that they have a "concrete source" that has told them that MGS 4 will be a PS3 exclusive for 12 to 14 months before it will be available on the Xbox 360. According to Xbox Family this is NOT a rumor and that the game has been in production for the 360 since early 2007. When a Microsoft PR was contacted this was their answer:

"Thanks for the heads up, [name removed]. For anything that resembles any shift in strategy, or product announcement, or even news of something happening with a third party, we’re always going to stick with “we haven’t announced anything about ” Every day we see rumors, most false, but some true, and we can’t confirm/deny everything out there for any number of reasons.

Publishing rumors doesn’t rub us the wrong way. If it weren’t for sites publishing rumors, there wouldn’t be much for most sites to talk about J. There really only are a few things that will rub us the wrong way: publishing content given under NDA, getting/publishing confidential information from people who are under NDA, invading/hacking systems where confidential information is housed without permission to gather information, making false/racial/sexual/inappropriate personal attacks, deliberately publishing false/misleading information, you get the idea.

As for retailers/employees/partners intentionally leaking information, we pay rather close attention to how/when those occur. If it happens that one site happens to get regular access to confidential information, I end up getting bombarded with questions from around the company about the relationship we have with the site, with what kind of access we’re giving the site, etc. Not pleasant for my team, especially because we’re doing everything we can to help community, not limit their access in any way.

I appreciate the note. I certainly will share everything I can, and I’ll often rattle enough cages to get to an acceptable answer. In this case, there’s really nothing we can say other than the obligatory “no comment.” "

[From Xbox Family]

**Update**- Since the release of this rumor by Xbox Family, Konami's PR has responded by saying:

"For the record, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a PlayStation 3 exclusive and there are no plans to develop an Xbox 360 version of the game."

This once again stomps on any rumors for the Xbox 360 version of the game, but if there were really a game in development do you think they would tell you anyway? I'm sure they will let Sony take the spotlight first and then quietly announce the Xbox 360 version of the game several months or even years later.