Latest issue of PSW says MGS4 demo on PSN in February

[Hatchetforce]

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showpost.php?p=7479178&postcount=42

Being from the states I am not familiar with this publication? Can anyone offer insight?

[51|RandoM]

That would be big. :)

[Norse]

That would be big. :)

Yeah, at least 10gigs

[pirateTITAN]

That would be awesome! A demo would atleast give me some hope of the game being anchored to this year.

[Sophism]

I'm wondering how this fits in with the whole "we will not release a demo of the game on PSN before its release (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163771)" thing.

[eth3rton]

I hope its true but I don't believe it. Why risk the potential bad press that it could bring. That and it takes away from the development of the game.... Just release the damn thing...!

[Hatchetforce]

I'm wondering how this fits in with the whole "we will not release a demo of the game on PSN before its release (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163771)" thing.

I would say it fits in fine with this comment:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/49155


"As of tomorrow, we're going to start working on the English demo," Kojima Production's Ryan Payton revealed on the studio's latest podcast. "But whether you'll be able to experience it, that's open for debate, open for speculation. Hopefully I can make an announcement about that soon, but right now, the focus is on making the English version."

[Gorvi]

I hope its true but I don't believe it. Why risk the potential bad press that it could bring. That and it takes away from the development of the game.... Just release the damn thing...!
Why bad press? A demo would be a good thing, it's not like the MGS gameplay is all of a sudden going to start sucking. Hell, look at how many people bought Zone of the Enders just for the MGS2 demo. Of course, they also got a really good, but short, game in there too.

[Gorvi]

This is looking pretty likely. MetalGearSolid4.net (http://metalgearsolid4.net/2008/01/20/metal-gear-solid-4-demo-coming-to-the-playstation-network-next-month.html) emailed the editor of PSW and got this response:
"Hi,

At the time of writing the article a Konami rep told us a demo, the demo we played in our office for the magazine article, would be on the PSN Store. It's finished, we played it, so something should be appearing this month. It could all depend on the game's final on sale date, if it has moved to May then a demo could appear later, possibly February.

Keep checking the mag, or our website www.computerandvideogames.com.

Cheers,
Ian"

[Nodus]

I will still hold out until Konami or Kojima's team says so.

Considering the previous Kojima Podcast last week, done by the producer Ryan Payton, mentioned that they didn't plan for a demo since no demo is based on the final build, and that it would be a improper display of the games current state. That and he alluded to how people would pick apart every little thing about it and possibly cause bad perception based on extremely high expectation.

I don't doubt a demo, most other MGS games had one, but this game in particular has alot of riding on it so we'll have to see.

[Hatchetforce]

New video:

Metal Gear Solid 4Full CES 2008 demo by Gaming-Age
Length: 21 minutes 21 seconds - Format: 1280 x 720

http://www.gamersyde.com/leech_5908_en.html

[eth3rton]

Why bad press? A demo would be a good thing, it's not like the MGS gameplay is all of a sudden going to start sucking. Hell, look at how many people bought Zone of the Enders just for the MGS2 demo. Of course, they also got a really good, but short, game in there too.

It could suffer the same way Halo 3 did... "couldn't live up to the hype". Notice I put could in italics & did in bold ;)...