Will Metal Gear Solid 4 really boost PS3 sales?

[F9zDark]

Well an exploit would boost sales, but there are quite a few factors that really trounce the exploit finding efforts:

-Price. Bricking a PSP was a tragedy in itself during its early homebrew days. Can anyone imagine the frustration of bricking a PS3? Needless to say, people don't seem willing to mess around with something that, at one point, costed 600 dollars.

-Updates. With updates being necessary for playing online (without using a hack) would be hackers and exploiters may want to vent some steam by playing a game online. Unfortunately they cannot if they don't update.

Secondly, exploits are, sometimes, found by those who aren't even looking for it. Updates could correct these could-be-exploits before anyone has a chance to discover how to use it.

However, Sony has said in the past of having a developer environment on YDL (being developed by the company that makes YDL) for people wishing to program for the PS3. Whether these games will be run strictly from linux or could be burned to a disc or transfered to the partition the XMB uses is beyond me.

[DPyro]

You can actually get online without doing an update. As long as the game doesn't require the update, you can create a fake DNS and tell the PS3 that the latest update is really 0.00 thus PS3 >= the latest update.

[lmtlmt]

how do u do that tho $n!pR

[DPyro]

This is from another site:

Here's a simple way to setup your PS3 to bypass the firmware check using a Windows machine as a dns server, its basically the same thing as what Wii users did to use the wii shop as a browser:

1) Download the SimpleDNS software from http://www.simpledns.com/download.aspx

2) Run SimpleDNS (you don't have to reboot despite the installer telling you to..), click on the Records button

3) In the records window, click on Tools > Quick Domain Wizard

4) For domain name enter: ps3.update.playstation.net

For Web server IP enter 67.15.88.46, delete the Secondary DNS name entry, you do not need it

5) Now that you have your new server added, you need to add A Name entries so the ps3 gets redirected on the firmware requests, to do this simply right click and choose New Host Address (A-Record)

6) We need to add two A-Name entries, depending on what region you are in. You can add as many as you'd like if you want to cover your bases though

For the us, we need fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net and dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net

So, In the host address window, enter fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net for Record name, and 67.15.88.46 for IP Address, set the Time To Live to 999 days. Repeat this for dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net

7) Once done simply close the records window in SimpleDNS so that it is back at the activity window

8) On your playstation 3, go into internet settings and enter manual setup and set your PS3's DNS server entry for the IP of the pc on your lan which is running SimpleDNS, then away you go!

[Toadzter17]

A better question?

Who gives a damn as long as we get it in 2008 xD

See you in MGS Online ^_^!

[pibs]

If I didn't have a ps3 id buy one just for Time Crisis 4 MGS is great but having TC4 on ps3 is almost like having the cabinet for half the price.

[Mc_Logical]

Metal Gear is zhit full stop. he moves like a $#@!cheese, I hate the feel of metal gear games, but it looks ok on ps3, watched trailers, im more of a splinter cell fan myself, them games just feel so much better and look better, metal gear characters are dumb, not just that, theres just something I hate about it, yes I can play it fine, but I think its the mentality of it, the type of ppl who like it YOU SUCK lol

[lmtlmt]

^ ^ ^ ^ ^

And that my friends it what you call a typical example of an asshole

[F9zDark]

Metal Gear is zhit full stop. he moves like a $#@!cheese, I hate the feel of metal gear games, but it looks ok on ps3, watched trailers, im more of a splinter cell fan myself, them games just feel so much better and look better, metal gear characters are dumb, not just that, theres just something I hate about it, yes I can play it fine, but I think its the mentality of it, the type of ppl who like it YOU SUCK lol

Without Metal Gear Solid there would be NO Splinter Cell, or Siphon Filter, or Tenchu, etc.

[Basil Zero]

By the time this game comes out, there will be alot of PS3 units sold, and when it does, alot more will sell.