Hideo Kojima: There's no difference between x360 and PS3.

[Aquanox]

1UP: With your debut of the Tokyo Game Show Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer, which has seen wide distribution in both Japanese magazines, online, and in the U.S. Official PlayStation Magazine recently, it really heralded the dawn of the next-generation. Everything else has been polished and nice, but this was so powerful, so compelling you even had to do a real-time demonstration at TGS to prove it was running on PS3 hardware. That said, it makes you wonder how much of a gap there is between the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Do you think you could create MGS4, technically, on 360 if you wanted to?

HK: Yes, that's technically possible. I want to express, first of all, it's not that I don't like Xbox or 360. It's just that last year, our hands were really tied to MGS3, so the other Konami developers were able to get their hands on the 360 tools and hardware earlier. But we simply didn't have time to do that last year. So, meaning that we were behind the other developers in terms of 360 development. Kojima Productions has this philosophy that we want to be the first in everything regarding new technology. So after we finished MGS3, the option was to work on the PS3 to try all the new things for Metal Gear Solid 4. The only reason for this is I'm the kind of person who wants to be the first person on the moon, and don't want to be asking "what the moon was like?" from other people. So that's the real story behind selecting PS3.


1UP: It's interesting that you think you could do this on 360, though.

HK: Maybe some nuance or a small details here and there might be different, but I feel that hardware is no longer a matter. I'm just talking about PS3, 360 and PC. Revolution is totally different, but there are really no differences among the other three.

There you go. Only that PS3 won't have Live and will take a bunch to appear in this side of the sea and comparable future PCs will cost you twice the 360 in the videocard alone.

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[Netrack]

ive always felt this way, each console of the same generation for the most part are very similar...the ps3 and 360 will be the same...one may slightly out preform the other but what one doesnt have the other will and vise versa....really its all about what you want. If you want to play online in a well establshed online arena, then the 360 is for you...if you want to play all those japanesse rpg's, its the ps3

[Morder]

Yeah PS3 will have a few nicer touches with lighting and physics (IMO since the hardware will be newer), but it won't be a huge difference.