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Even though Metal Gear Solid 3 hasn’t even hit the shelves yet (it gets its US debut on Wednesday, with a European release to follow in early 2005), we now have confirmation that a fourth chapter in the chart-topping series is on the way. And that’s pretty much all that’s been confirmed.
In response to an investor’s question regarding the future of the series at a shareholder’s meeting, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan president Motoyuki Yoshioka stated that:“As for Metal Gear Solid 4, well again, we have some ideas, we’ve had some ideas for sometime now, so we’ll continue to create more titles in the series”.
This announcement may come as quite a surprise to many fans of the series, after a Tokyo Game Show trailer for the third chapter carried a tagline which proclaimed it be the “Final Episode of the Metal Gear Solid Trilogy”.
Although no platform was confirmed for the title, it is widely expected that it will be on Sony’s as-yet-unveiled PlayStation 3 console. This seems especially likely when one considers the almost three year gap between the two most recent titles in the espionage series.
Yoshioka-san also told investors that he hoped to ship more copies of the latest instalment – Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater – than 2002’s Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Keep those browsers pointed at Pro-G for more news on the game, as it emerges.
