Metal Gear Solid Delta dev provides update on release after missing all of last year

It’s now 2025, and Konami’s Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater still doesn’t have an official release date. Announced with a vague “2024” release, Konami has still failed to give players a standard release date for the upcoming remake, all the while apologising for not doing so.

Despite hopes that Konami would reveal a launch window at the end of last year, Metal Gear fans have entered 2025 clueless as to when the much-anticipated remake will land. To make matters worse, the Production Hotline series – which acted as a bridge between the developers and the fans, providing updates on Delta’s progress, hasn’t released a new episode in a couple of months.

Where is Metal Gear Solid Delta?

However, while news is scarce, there have been some murmurings from Konami addressing Delta’s development. Speaking to Japanese publication 4Gamer for their annual mass developer interview (and highlighted by YouTube channel SecondAct) on what his ambition were for 2025, Metal Gear Solid Delta producer Noriaki Okamura stated that: “Our top priority is to deliver a polished and high-quality Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater to our fans.”

While there’s still no official window, Okamura has previously stated that the game is already fully playable from start to finish. This means that the game should be in its final stages of polishing and bug fixing. Judging from previews of the game running natively on console during Gamescom in August 2024, performance was already rock solid, so the game should be nearing release.

Understandably, MGS fans have grown impatient as a result of radio silence regarding Delta’s release. At the Tokyo Games Show towards the tail-end of last year, Okamura apologized for the company’s failure to reveal when fans can play the game, despite confirming a number of gameplay details such as new Codec and camo setups, the return of Phantom Pain mechanics.

At the time Okamura explained the developers don’t want to make a promise to fans that they can’t keep, pleading to fans to “wait a little longer” for the game’s release date. It’s still widely expected that MGS Delta will arrive in the first part of this year, although this is pure speculation.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is expected to release in 2025 for PC, Xbox Series and PlayStation 5.