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iPhone Captures Metal Gear Solid Touch

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By Rob Crossley

December 17, 2008

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Metal Gear Solid Touch has been unveiled as the next project from the Kojima team.

The game, scheduled for release in March 2009, is being developed for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Accordingly, the title be touch-screen based.

Initial indications are that Solid Touch will focus on the characters and narrative from Metal Gear solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Eight levels will initially be available in the game, with more stages to be optionally added via download at a later date. The game will also allow players to gather points to unlock images and wallpapers from the series.

The announcement is quite possibly Apple’s biggest coup yet in regards to its collection iPhone software, which has so far not been able to allure the core gamer market with its scattering of casual titles.

On top of MGST, Konami has also announced that Dance Dance Revolution, Silent Hill The Escape, and Frogger will be coming to the iPhone later this month.

gwsmokey's picture

Makes sense completely... After all MGS4 featured lots of APPLE products... makes also sense with the ! + ! backwards = MGS

Axel16's picture

Sure Konami ignores the Wii, but the lastest console sales near the 40 MILLION users can change the Kojima's main to focus in Wii. The Wii owners want a new MGS exclusive for Wii and we start increase the presure over Konami to this finaly happen!!
The Wii rules!!

Val Ferrel's picture

Cool. I am getting an iPod Touch for Christmas, and I'll likely pick this up when it releases.

Dan_Chippendale's picture

I'm desperate for a decent game on my iphone. This could be it. Monkey Ball sucked balls... this could be the killer app that the iphone's games library needs. It'll need to be around the £11-£15 price point to make an impact I guess. I wonder if they might use some sort of GPS implementation in it.. now that would be nice

Wall_E's picture

This news pretty much makes a c**t out of those who thought that MGS 4 was coming to the 360.

KarmaDoctor's picture

EDGE wrote: "Initial indications are that Solid Touch will focus on the characters and narrative from Metal Gear solid 4: Guns of the Patriots."

Is this a video game or an interactive comic book?

And what about price points?

My prediction isn't as sugar coated and wrapped in pretty iPhone-branded wrapping paper as Apple would like it to be. Apple continues to dance this dance and make unrealistic promises to struggling publishers. Apple's quite good at the PR game, but that's not always a good thing.

Publishers are aching for cash right now, but instead of putting 100% into the only real profit-producing baskets, they're foolishly putting development time and money into a mobile platform that has yet to produce significant revenues from any single app (and I'm not talking about a few hundred thousand bucks, I'm talking the kind of cash that a publisher would need to produce in order to justify the millions of dollars it would put into development and marketing titles on the iPhone/Touch platforms). My biggest concern is that the industry will continue to shrink until it implodes and we all see another industry crash similar to what we experienced in the 80's. It may not turn into an industry depression, but it could be damn close. I would like to be proven wrong. I would like to be eating crow a year from now, but something tells me this won't be the case.

Top_Dollar's picture

MGS 4 on 360 my arse! I predicted the next installment of MGS would be on Apple hardware when the teaser site was announced.

Anybody wanting MGS 4 that bad would go and buy a PS3 and stop being a cheap bastard.

anthony_boscarino's picture

LOL. I concur.

calladorn8t's picture

I apologize for the poor and for being poor...

NickgamertagO1's picture

Nice guess top.