Microsoft Brings Metal Gear Solid Rising to the Xbox 360

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Exclusivities have always been big ammo for console companies. Nintendo has its successful Mario and Zelda franchises, Microsoft is strong with its Gears of War and Halo shooters but Sony struggled to get its LittleBigPlanet or Killzone 2 into the media spotlight.

One of the landmark franchises for Sony was always Metal Gear Solid from Konami, that has a cult following and had very big sales with the MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots, last year.

Now, with the bomshell creator Hideo Kolima droped at E3 things have changed. He announced that one of the next two MGS games, MGS: Rising, would make its appearance not only on the PlayStation 3 but also on the Xbox 360 and the PC, two platforms that work under Microsoft.

The vice president in charge of the Xbox 360  Shane Kim, was very excited, as he said that the platform could not be ignored by third party developers just because it is so profitable to bring a game on multiple platforms.

Shane Kim went on to say “I still think exclusive content is really important, First of all, in games, we've said for a long time that a key part of our strategy with Xbox 360 was a level third party playing field. Now we've effectively done that with Metal Gear Solid coming to the Xbox 360. The economics are such that third parties also have to support multiple platforms, and you can't ignore Xbox 360. It's the second leading platform.” Look forward to more details in the months to come.