I like MGS carnivals of stupid, as much as anyone else. But a few questions:
1. How or why would there be a 360 port of MGS4? [ I have both systems, btw, so NO, I'm not a fanboy]
MGS4 sold well enough and as much as I want Kojipro to get monies, I don't think they'd spend some extra money on porting. Especially with such constraints as, the ubiquitous MAC and Apple placement, plus the 30 gigabyte of useless extra data.Even if some other group heads the porting. Also, looking to sales, it appears that the amount of purchases were around the same or better, than some of the previous installments, despite the lower over userbase of the Playstation 3. So basically, everyone that wants MGS4, virtually already bought it.
2. New IP- Makes more sense. Kojima is tired of MGS re-iterations. Plus, no studio wants to be known for just ONE IP. It's bad for business. Multiplat or exclusive to one console.
3. DLC makes sense, as there's a whole uncharted territory of what happened to Raiden between Sons of Liberty and Guns of the Patriots. Also, if anyone's played, you kinda notice that there's no levels where you'd expect them. An example would be when Big Momma gets shot and they both head to the sewers.
4. Or, everything could go the clusterfuck way, and I'm wrong in every instance.