Legendtaker117
09-24-2007, 10:20 PM
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163179
"The original plan was to have Metal Gear Online come out long before MGS4. We thought of this from, seriously, two years ago. The original plan was to make MGO its own series that's not going to be dependent on the story mode of Metal Gear. The problem was that if we have a new Metal Gear, like Metal Gear Solid, it's going to come out every three years, and we can't have an online going in between that timespan. So it was going to have its own franchise, say, Metal Gear Online 2 coming out in a year-and-a-half or two years from now or something.
We were open to do that. The idea was two different SKUs coming out, maybe like, Metal Gear Online in time for Christmas and then MGS4 some time early next year. That was the original plan, but with delays all of a sudden it came out that both games will be mastering around the same time. So we've got this problem. Consumers are going to perceive that we're double-dipping, because if we ship two $60 games at the same time, on the same day.
We're running into an issue where we feel like Metal Gear can stand alone as two separate products, and honestly, you're not going to pay $120 to get both, we know that for sure. We have to tweak the pricing. That's why we couldn't announce a release date at TGS. You know, Halo 3 is over delivering, and we're going to over deliver, too. I'm not worried about the review scores, I'm not worried about backlash, because we're going to include enough online in the MGS4 package, and people are going to dig it."
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"The original plan was to have Metal Gear Online come out long before MGS4. We thought of this from, seriously, two years ago. The original plan was to make MGO its own series that's not going to be dependent on the story mode of Metal Gear. The problem was that if we have a new Metal Gear, like Metal Gear Solid, it's going to come out every three years, and we can't have an online going in between that timespan. So it was going to have its own franchise, say, Metal Gear Online 2 coming out in a year-and-a-half or two years from now or something.
We were open to do that. The idea was two different SKUs coming out, maybe like, Metal Gear Online in time for Christmas and then MGS4 some time early next year. That was the original plan, but with delays all of a sudden it came out that both games will be mastering around the same time. So we've got this problem. Consumers are going to perceive that we're double-dipping, because if we ship two $60 games at the same time, on the same day.
We're running into an issue where we feel like Metal Gear can stand alone as two separate products, and honestly, you're not going to pay $120 to get both, we know that for sure. We have to tweak the pricing. That's why we couldn't announce a release date at TGS. You know, Halo 3 is over delivering, and we're going to over deliver, too. I'm not worried about the review scores, I'm not worried about backlash, because we're going to include enough online in the MGS4 package, and people are going to dig it."
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