Reason Why Metal Gear Solid 4 Never Came to Xbox Revealed

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Of the numerous games released in the Metal Gear Solid series, Metal Gear Solid 4 is a particularly interesting title. Other than being available to play via PlayStation Now, Metal Gear Solid 4 never circulated outside the PlayStation 3. For the longest time, fans of the series thought that Metal Gear Solid 4 was meant to be a PlayStation exclusive, but according to new information, that wasn't actually the case.

Most in the gaming community consider Metal Gear Solid a Sony exclusive property given its consistent presence on Sony's platforms, but plenty of games in the series have found their way onto other platforms. For instance, Metal Gear Solid 2 received cross-platform releases on both the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox back when it first launched in the early 2000s. Though, in the case of Metal Gear Solid 4, its exclusivity on the PlayStation 3 is considerably more circumstantial.

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Ryan Payton, a former Kojima Productions employee, revealed in an interview with ResetEra that Metal Gear Solid 4 was never a Sony exclusive title. Payton would later explain that the people Hideo Kojima, the creator of the Metal Gear Solid series, answered would have gladly approved a port of Metal Gear Solid 4 to the Xbox 360, but Kojima made the conscious decision not to do so.

A radio show appearance that Kojima did back in 2013 recently surfaced as well, where Kojima explained that an Xbox 360 port of Metal Gear Solid 4 was next to impossible, due to the Xbox 360's hardware limitations. The PS3 was the first console to ever use Blu-Ray discs, which managed to hold massive amounts of game data, compared to the Xbox 360, which was still using DVD discs.

Therefore, the lack