Both Metal Gear Solid V episodes are coming to PC

[Scorpus]

Hideo Kojima of Konami fame has confirmed during Gamescom that both episodes of Metal Gear Solid V, The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes, will be released on PC via Steam at some unspecified point in the future.

The first game to hit PC will be Ground Zeroes, which debuted on PlayStation and Xbox earlier this year. The short stealth-action game is a prologue to the events in The Phantom Pain, which itself is set in the early parts of Metal Gear's timeline.

The Phantom Pain is the much larger and main Metal Gear Solid V title, set for release in early 2015 on both current- and last-generation Sony and Playstation consoles. Like Ground Zeroes, the game will be powered by Kojima Productions' cross-platform Fox Engine, which should look excellent on PC based on what we've seen on consoles so far.

Metal Gear games have traditionally been released on PlayStation well before other platforms, with numerous titles in the series never getting a PC release. The last Metal Gear game to see the light on PC was Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, launched this past January on Steam, just under a year after its console release.

After Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was exclusive to PlayStation 3, it's great to see the series go platform-agnostic once again.

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[Guest]

My God the grammar! Also MGS 1-3 where all on pc at some point if I remember correctly, steam or boxed versions.

 

[Benny26]

This is great news. I thought I was finally going to have to buy a PS4 for this but guess not.

 

[Guest]

Mgs3 has never been on pc

 

[Bitvar]

No doubt in my mind this would happen, the same goes for Kingdom Hearts 3. Both titles at E3 2013 I got to see in person and both were running on Windows 7 on some unmarked black PCs.

There weren't many titles at E3 2013 that weren't running on Windows 7 (most every next-gen game crashed to Windows desktop at one point or another, even the private Destiny preview I watched) that were reported as "Next-gen console exclusive."

Since HSLS and DirectX on the PS4/Xbox One respectively are both being used to make games compiled on x86, it is just an afternoon's work to rebuild them for Windows and kick them out the door for 30% revenue boost and next-to-zero labor/costs.

 

[Alpha Gamer]

I can't say I'm not happy. But every news like this makes my future purchase of a ps4 less and less justifiable. I could live without MGS and Last of Us...
But it looks like I'll buy a ps4 for just one game: Bloodborne. Which is not entirely a bad thing, I got into pc gaming because I wanted to play one game alone: Dragon Age Origins, and ended up enjoying the pc world and many other games that came after it.